Immortality proved by the testimony of sense : $b In which is contemplated the doctrine of spectres and the existence of a particular spectreCummings, Abraham
Religion
Immortality proved by the testimony of sense : $b In which is contemplated the doctrine of spectres and the existence of a particular spectre
Cummings, Abraham
Apparitions; Immortality; Spiritualism
If one departed saint is capable of knowing our thoughts, so may
others. That uncorporeal spirits are witnesses of the conduct of this
world, appears not only from that of Spectres, but from the scriptures,
as in Dan. 8: 13. Rev. 6: 10. Eccl. 5: 6. 1 Tim. 5: 21. No reason can be
assigned why our conduct may not be as visible to a saint made perfect,
as to an angel: for neither of them can know us by bodily organs, such
as we now possess, and their knowledge of our thoughts without these
organs, is just as easily accounted for, as their knowledge of our
external conduct. The spirits of just men, when they leave this world,
are made perfect. “But when that which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away. Now I know in part; but then
shall I know, even as also I am known.” This cannot mean that I shall
know other souls and even Christ himself as _perfectly_ as he knows
me; but I shall know them in the same manner. I shall know other souls
_intuitively_ as Christ knows me. Indeed, what idea can we have of mere
spirits seeing each other, and being present with each other, but that
of the mutual intuition of thoughts?
If that day should find the saints as ignorant of the human character
as they are at the hour of death, their judgment will be of small
account for their own satisfaction or that of others.
And should evasion tell us that Christ and his angels will then reveal
to the saints the character of this world; still this character would
be only the object of faith, not of sight, and satan and his adherents,
could say that the saints had condemned them for the most part by
hear-say, and that of those who had always opposed them from the
beginning.
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