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Show CELESTIAL MAEEIAGE. 273 ing pronounced upon our first parents. I have not time to explain further the marriage of Adam and Eve, but will pass on to their posterity. It is true, that they became fallen, but there is a redemption. But some may consider that the redemption only redeemed us in part, that is, merely from some of the effects of the fall. But this is not the case; every man and woman must see at once that a redemption must include a complete restoration of all the privileges lost by the fall. Suppose, then, that the fall was of such a nature as to dissolve the marriage covenant, by death-which is not necessary to admit, for the covenant was sealed previous to the fall, and we have no account that it was dissolved •-but suppose this was the case, would not the redemption be equally broad as the fall, to restore the posterity of Adam back to that which they lost ? And if Adam and Eve were married for all eternity, the ceremony was an everlasting ordinance, that they twain should be one flesh for ever. If you and I should ever be accounted worthy to be restored back from our fallen and degraded condition to the privileges enjoyed before the fall, should we not have an everlasting marriage seal, as it was with our first progenitors? If we had no other reasons in all the Bible, this would be sufficient to settle the case at once in the mind of every reflecting man and woman, that inasmuch as the fall of man has taken away any privileges in regard to the union of male and female, these privileges must be restored in the redemption of man, or else it is not complete. What is the object of this union ? is the next question. We are told the object of i t : it is clearly expressed; for, says the Lord unto the male and female, I command 12* |