This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...with minds the most perfectly balanced, and with feelings or moral power as much under the control of the intellect, as they could possibly have been: were it not so, this natural weakness would have been offered as an extenuating circumstance for their conduct; and if not thus offered, yet nevertheless the fact must ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 Excerpt: ...with minds the most perfectly balanced, and with feelings or moral power as much under the control of the intellect, as they could possibly have been: were it not so, this natural weakness would have been offered as an extenuating circumstance for their conduct; and if not thus offered, yet nevertheless the fact must have been so considered by the Creator, and allowance made accordingly, in the administration of their punishment. But no such circumstance is recorded in the transaction. In fact, were he not thus created, it would have been a reflection upon the wisdom and goodness of the Creator: indeed, the first pair of our race were made perfect, and this is all the righteous in the new creation can be, or that they have any grounds to expect. It is true, they are not to propagate their species in the world to come; but disease and death, nor even sin, in nowise grow out of that relation. The command to multiply and replenish the earth, was given to man in his innocency, and hence it was a lawful and righteous relation. This would have been limited to a certain period. of time, had man never sinned, until a sufficient number of candidates for the immortal kingdom would have existed, when the whole race would have been changed into a state of immortal perfection, which could not have been accomplished while mankind married, or were given in marriage. Indeed, the very fact of being born demonstrates this position, and shows the state even in which our first parents were placed, was one of preparation for a future state of perfection and of possession. Death, we read, came into the world in consequence of transgression; but this only served to put off that grand change for which men were created, to a later period of time, in order that the same number of su...
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