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'cn'a|s'r'a axcozm conmvs. Wmay have right to the tree of life, and may enter inthrough the gates into the city." By these passages Ishow on that all the children of God are included inthis blessing, and not the martyrs only,as some willhave it. The next thing which will claim our attentionwill be to explain the resurrection spoken of in ourtext, called the first resurrection The word resurrectionsignifies to revive, or iesuscitate, or bring to life again,one now dead, who_ was once alive. It nowhere in theword of God conveysan idea of a new creation, andthe word is nowhere used in the Bible expreming anything less or more than a union of' soul and body, anddeliverance from natural death. The word raurredibnis nowhere used in a figurative sense; it in all placeshas its own simple meaning, unless our text is an exception.And without the objector can show some ruleof interpretation by which we shall be warranted tounderstand the word in a different sense, we must beleave to attach to it 'the simple meaning, coming If/g toji'omthegra1:e. I know some have suposed that re enerationis resurrection; but 1 cannot believe this uglessshow some rule.they I know some pretend to show us,in ohn v. 25,"Thr: hourVerily, verily, I say untois you,coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear thevoice of the Son of God, and they that hear shall live,"asarule; butin order to make thisa rule,theymustprove that Christ meant regeneration; until this is shown,we cannot admit it as any proof!We shall, therefore, consider the wordasupoutoftlw e,andpaseto ewofrat.laints is first as it respects order and time. Wherever'"&IEhe first resurrectigavfg The resurrection of thethe word resurndion "ls used in connection with IW ordumfurnbn, the one unto life always comes first; as inDaniel xii. 2, "Some to everlasting life, and some toshame and everlasting contempt;"thathave done good, umto the resurrection of life; anthey that have done evil, unto the resurrection ofdamnation." Here are two samples as it respects order.Oneor two as ite: 1 Cor.xv.23,"Christthevt.hatareChri|t'|atUlsiirltJohn v. 29,"They