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 toward the spiritual and unseen things promised, while the. human hopes, etc., die. Those thus transformed, or in process of change, are reckoned "new creatures," begotten of God, and partakers to that extent of the divine nature Mark well the difference between these "new creatures " and those believers and "brethren " who are only justified. Those of the fetter class are still of the earth, earthy, and, aside from sinful desires, their hopes, ambitions and aims are such as will be fully gratified in the promised restitution of all things. But those of the former class are not of this world, even as Christ is not of this world, and their hopes cen- ter in the things unseen, where Christ sittethat die right hand of God. The prospe<Sl of earthly glory, so enchanting to the natural man, would no longer be a satisfying portion to those begotten of this heavenly hope, to those who see the glories of the heavenly promises, and who appreciate the part assigned them in the divine plan. This new, divine mind is the earnest of our inheritance of the complete di- vine nature mind and body. Some may be a little start- led by this expression, a divine body; but we are told that Jesus is now the express image of his Father's person, and that the overcomers will *<be //&?him and see him as he is." (i John 3 1 2.) "There is a natural [human] body, and there is a spiritual body.'* (i Cor. 15 : 44.) We could not im- agine either our divine Father or our Lord Jesus as merely great minds without bodies. Theirs are glorious spiritual bodies, though it doth not yet appear how great is the glory, and it shall not, until we also shall shais the divine nature.

While this transforming of the mind from human to spir- itual is a gradual work, the change from a human to a spir- iual body will not be gradual, but instantaneous, (i Cor. 15:52.) Now, as Paul says, we have this treasure (the di- vine mind) in earthen vessels, but in due time the treasure

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