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Show c, 'I ca 8) 2. The ..first, pair ot whose marriage we ha.ve any account, on this earth, wer immortal beings. J. "What! you do not taean to say that immortal beings marry, do you?" Yes, that is the, first example we have on record. "Do you mean to say that Adam was an immortal being?" 4.Inqulres one What is the nature of an immortal being? It is one who has not had the - cu.rse-.of death pronounced. upon him. 5.Had Adam the curse of death pronounced. upon hi.m, when the Lord brought and gave her to him? No, he had not, Had. the Lord pro Eve the woman nounced the curse of death upon Eve at the time he brought hex to Adam? He had not. Why not? Because neither of them had transgressed. 6.Dea.th was not taken into consideration in their case; it had never been pronounced. The Lord had said nothing about death, but he had united them ,together, with the intention of that union continuing through all the &{§ of eternity. 7.Inqu1res one,"Did they not forfeit this by eating the forbidden fruit?" We have no account that they did; but supposing they did, can you show me one thing that our first parents forfeited by the Fall that not rest ored by the atonement of Jesus? Not a thing. they forfeited the life of their bodies, the atonement of Christ and victory over the gra ve by the resurrection restored to Adam and Eve that immortality they possessed before they transgressed; and whatever they lost or forfeited by the Fall was restored by Jesus Christ. 9.But we have no account that Adam and Eve forfeited the privilege of t union by their transgression; hence, when they, by vu;,ue of the atonement of Christ (if they did not coma forth at the resurrection of Christ) ,they will have immortal bodies, and they will have all the charac teristics, so far as their bodies are concerned , that they possessed before the fa.ll. •• lO.Have you never read the first great commandment given in the Bible?God II said, "Be fruitful and multiply. Did he give this conurandment to mortal : eings? No, be gave it to two immortal beings. "Wba.t! do you mean to say that immortal beings can multiply, as well as e married for all eternity?" I do. 2.God gave the comDBlld to these two immortal personages, before the Fall, .showing clearly and plainly that immortal beings had that capacity, or else God would never have given it to them. '13.1 will admit that they had no power to beget children of mortalitYI it u1:red a f'a.ll to enable them to do that, and without that no 1Il0rtal eings could have been produced.' 14.But we see what has been entaUed upon the children of Adam, by the - - • •• ,a.If Ihis letemal • F.1. • of his offspring being immortal, they forth into this ]15.Instead and of all that fallen nature that Adam and come , .!l':"Orld partake Eve, had after and they have also inherited the death of the body. felll jthey must recollect We, that this world is not the only one that God has made e has been engaged from all eternity in the formation of worlds, that is, here have been trorlds upon worlds created by those WO .have held the o"'_r, and authority, and the right to create; and an endless chain of orlds has thus been created, and there never was a period in past durat • •• !6. E-0n, but ldlat there were worlds. , " 7.The idea of a first world is out of the question, just as wch as the dea of a first foot of space, or the first foot in epdless line. S.Take an endless line and undertake to find the first foot, yard, or of it. It can not be done, any more than you can find out the first ute, hour or year of endless duration. 9.The:re is no first minute, hour or year in endless duration,and there is e first in endless chain of ternity in their formation. o w-orlds, and God has been at .work from all [ [ |
