The body sown an animal or natural body, subject to vegetative processes, and other conditions of nature, at the Resurrection will be free from all these conditions. Proposition 3. Bodies here deformed, will hereafter be perfected. Marchant reasons that, in a state of perfection, all imperfection, and therefore all deformity, will be done away. He discusses the question of the age to which all bodies will seem to have attained at the Resurrection; the received doctrine being that _we_ shall _all come … unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature_ (marg. _age_) _of the fulness of Christ_. (Eph. iv. 13.) Lection III. The circumstances of the resurrection. Proposition 1. The trumpet call precedes it. For it takes place _in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump_—that trump being the voice of the archangel. (1 Thess. iv. 16. Matt. xxiv. 31.) The trumpet of old called to a solemn assembly; it was a sign of advance, it was a signal of battle. So will the last trump _call the Heaven from above and the earth, that God may judge His people_; it will be the sign of advance to the elect into their kingdom, it will be the signal for all creation to arm itself to fight against the ungodly. Do you ask what is the object of the trumpet blast? 1st. It is to call the angels together, to prepare for the severance of good and bad. 2nd. It is to wake the dead. 3rd. It is to summon the elect to the feast of good things in Heaven. 4th. It is to terrify the wicked and announce to them their doom. Proposition 2. The locality of the resurrection is uncertain. It is supposed by many that it will take place in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, where good and bad will be gathered together. Others suppose that the good and bad will be gathered in separate spots. Others again suppose that each individual will remain by the grave whence he has arisen. Proposition 3. The time when the resurrection will take place is also uncertain. Some think it will take place early on Easter Day, _at the rising of the sun_, that our resurrection may be made in all points like that of our great Head. Others think that it will take place suddenly at night: _At midnight there was a voice heard, Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him_. The type of Israel coming out of Egypt points also to midnight. But the place and the time knoweth no man, they depend on the Providence of God. I confess to feeling quite at a loss what to select as a specimen of Marchant’s refined and beautiful writing. Every page contains beauties, and it is hard to choose among them.