Proposition 1. Universal resurrection was announced in the Old and New Testaments; Christ proves this from the words, _The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob_, saying, _He is not the God of the dead, but of the living_. For the Sadducees denied the existence of angel or spirit, and a state of life after death. If God is God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and He is God of the living, then these patriarchs are in a state of existence after death. Christ quoted from Moses, and not from passages in the prophets, because the Sadducees accepted the Pentateuch only. Christ raised some from the dead as an earnest of what He would do hereafter, as for instance, Lazarus, the widow’s son, and the daughter of Jairus. Proposition 2. The resurrection of the body, though naturally hard to be understood, is most easy to be performed by God. The doctrine of the resurrection was unknown to the philosophers. There are natural difficulties in the way, yet it is possible with God, as illustrated by the vision of Ezekiel (xvii.). Daniel also was promised the resurrection (xii. 2). Marchant relates the story of the seven sleepers as an illustration of the manner in which those sleeping in their graves may awake in the flesh and in the likeness of their former selves. Nature gives us figures and types of resurrection: the seeds decaying and springing up again; the trees shedding their leaves to burst again into leaf, and flower, and fruit; the waning of the year to break again into spring. If there is a difficulty in our conceiving how a body scattered to the winds may be restored, take a globule of quicksilver, shiver it into countless minute particles, gather them again into your palm, and lo! the globule is identical with that which was before. Proposition 3. This doctrine of a resurrection has been the source of joy and consolation to saints and martyrs in their afflictions. Example of Job. _I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: and though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God._ (Job xix. 25, 26.) Example of the seven brethren (2 Macc. vii.). Examples of St. James and St. Nicasius. The Apostle asserts that if we had no such hope _we should be of all men most miserable_, but we have a hope of resurrection (Phil. iii. 20, 21).