Sermons On the Privileges, Responsibilities, And Duties of Members of the ...
Sermons On the Privileges, Responsibilities, And Duties of Members of the ...
Thomas Bowdler
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And even God's own Son, though he knew no sin, was made sin for us, and suffered under the full weight of the Father's wrath. To some indeed its sting appears to have been almost taken away ; but all died; two only excepted, Enoch in the ages before the flood ; Elijah in the days of the kings of Israel. The latter, we read, went up in a chariot of fire. Of the former we are only told that he " was translated," that is, he was removed from earth ; " for God," it is added, " took him," — took him... from a world which was polluted with sin, — took him to an everlasting rest. This was the signal reward of his piety. He alone 118 ENOCH A TYPE OP A FUTURE LIFE. among the Patriarchs, — he and Elijah alone among all the generations of men, had this espe- cial mark of divine favour, to pass from the world without tasting of death. In their case the awful sentence was revoked, and the divine purpose changed. Now this, no doubt, happened, and was recorded, for the benefit of those who should come after.
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