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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE III. THE FIRST RESURRECTION. If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead.-Philiffians iii. 2. In the verse preceding our text, the apostle Paul summed up the Christian religion, with application to himself, in a most fervent and devout wish-" that I may know him (Christ) and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death." This was all he desired for this life : still he had an object beyond-a desired object beyond the grave; the hope of attaining which, engaged his heart, and animated every power of soul and body. This dear object is expressed in the text-The Resurrection Of The Dead. A subject so interesting to the apostle must be of the highest importance. May we all believe in it as such, and be influenced by it as he was. Attending to which, we may- I. Observe by what means the apostle Paul endeavored to obtain his desired end-the resurrection of the dead. II. Inquire what the apostle must mean, in this place, by the resurrection of the dead. HI. Show the propriety of our subordinating every pursuit in life to this end ; and of striving to the utmost, if by any means we may attain unto the resurrection of the dead. I. To obtain his desired object, our apostle strove in a manner that shows what the hope of the resurrection of the dead is capable of effecting in man. He made a sacrifice of all his advantages, natural, acquired and religious ; which were many, and, he thought, equal, if not superior, to any man's whatever. See the 4th verse of this chapter, and the following in connection: " Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more ; circumcised the eighth day, of the sto
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Sentiments Concerning the Coming and Kingdom of Christ
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