Of this process alone, and its wonderful effects, it is that the apostles speak, when they glory of the abolishment of death, and of life and immortality brought to light through the gospel: because it is the gospel alone, that manifests the actual existence of this process of Christ in all its parts. Nor do they ever speak of any light, life, or knowledge, as formerly the hidden wisdom of God, and now made manifest to the world, but solely that light, that life, and knowledge, which arises from some one or other, or all the parts of our Saviour’s process, as the one only possible and actual Redeemer of the world. That this is, the plain full truth of the matter, that the only thing, discovered to the world by the light of the gospel, is the one whole process of Christ, must be acknowledged by every considerate man, even from the nature of the thing.――For what can the mystery of the gospel be, but the mystery of Christ, as a Saviour, made known to the world? And what can the mystery of Christ, as a Saviour made known be, but the manifestation of _what_ he is in himself, in the power of his personality, in the efficacy of his birth, in the blessed consequences of his life, his sufferings, his death, resurrection, and ascension into heaven, as our _second Adam_, or father of a new, divine nature, derived into us by his wonderful process in all its parts. Now as all these particulars make up the _whole manifestation_ of the mystery opened in the gospel, so there is not in any of these, the most distant _hint_ given, that the doctrine of a _future state_, was not as soon, as universally, and constantly known as the fall of man was. Nor do they any more imply, _such ignorance_, than they imply, the fall of man not known till Christ came in the flesh.――Now that which is not taught in, and by the process of Christ, cannot be taught by the manifestation of the gospel mystery. But in all our Saviour’s process, there is no possibility of making any part of it prove, that the _immortality_ of the soul, or its _destination_ to a future life, was not the common belief, of every age from _Adam_ to Christ. For this wonderful process of Christ, which is the whole mystery opened in the gospel, is about quite _another kind_ of life in the soul, than that which consists in its _bare immortality_. For immortality, considered in itself, may as well be a curse as a blessing. But this is not the life and immortality that the gospel boasts of. It leaves such natural immortality, which belongs as well to devils as men, as wholly untouched, as it does the original of the alphabet. And for this reason, because the _one knowledge_ which the former world wanted, and the Christian world got, is by all the evangelists and apostles confined to that, which Christ, as God and man, was, did, suffered, purchased, and obtained, in and through the efficacy and merits of his process, till as a second _Adam_, he was placed at the right hand of God.