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 not an ethereal vapour; it is a substantial, but not a material body. It is precisely similar to the bodies of the two shining ones that appeared to the women at the sepulchre of the Lord. It is the same as the body of the angel who rebuked John the Revelator, when about to worship him; "See thou do it not, for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren the prophets: worship God." It is analogous in spiritual beauty and splendour to the forms of Moses and Elias, who, at the transfiguration of the Lord, were seen talking with him. In short, the human soul, purified by trial, and perfected by suffering, is prepared to join, and joins accordingly, that innumerable company, who in glorifying the Lord unite in ascribing unto him all honour and glory, praise, might, majesty, and dominion, for ever and ever. Amen.

F the soul of man be in the human form, as all Scripture warrants us in believing—and if the Lord ascended into heaven, glorified, and with his body complete, as the Scriptures also teach—and if after we have finished our course in this world, we shall be absent from the material body, and present with the Lord in our spiritual body; how plain must it be that, with our bodies, we shall have all our various members in the highest possible degree of