Second advent library

,4'68 cmcnnn Annales.are but soinany weapons, in the hands of theking of terrors, to bring men to the dust, andto their mother earth. Moralall livingdeath was the penalty ; natural death is thewages or consequences ox" moral death. Thusthe moral death must be first death; for allmust agree that the man is morally deadwho works sin, and that he cannot obtainthe wages of sin until sin dwells in him.Then moral death is the poison which taintsthe blood and pollutes the mind of man;while natural death preys only upon thebody, and reduces the frame to dust. Theiirst death is then the penalty of sin. Naturaldeath is the wages of sin, and the.con-Mansequence following moral depravity.cannot sin without deriving instantly amoral death. Yet man may live six hundredyears, and sin all those years, before he diesa natural death. Thus, when man had sinned,he was driven out of Eden and fromthe presence of God. This was the tirstdeath, the wages of which were consequentlythe separation of soul and body. Thesedeaths, being inseparably connected,are butthe stock and fruit of the same tree.When God saw man thus lost, morallydead and subject to natural death, he providedaremedy for fallen man against boththese evils, by Jesus Christ: from the Hrst,by moral regeneration; from the second, bthe resurrection. Let me be understoodxthen, as believing that these two deaths, as