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. 1856. Excerpt: . CHAPTER H. FACTS OF SCRIFrURE.

That we shall know those whom we have not known, we deduce from facts of Scripture, and hence will follow, we shall recognise those whom we have known- 1. The case of the rich man and Lazarus we have already considered, under the head of Recognition: we now return to it, to strengthen the argument. First. Abraham and Dives, it seems, lived and died in different ages of the world, and yet in the separate state they knew each other: consequently, there was no difficulty in the mutual recognition of Dives and Lazarus, who lived and died in the same age. Secondly, Abraham and Dives, previously unacquainted with each other, knew each other across the "great gulf fixed" and impassable to spirits on either side; that is, they knew each other in different states: consequently, Dives and Lazarus, previously acquainted with each other, would have known each other had they been in the same state. Thirdly, the fact is stated that Abraham and Lazarus, supposed to have been previously unacquainted with each other, did know each other in the same state: consequently, spirits previously acquainted with each other must know each other in the same state. Fourthly, the intimacy existing in heaven between saints previously unacquainted with each other is equivalent to a demonstrative proof of recognition. Did not Lazarus know Abraham, in whose "bosom" he was? And will the intimacy between dearest friends be less intimate in heaven--the sainted mother and her seraph child, for example? Fifthly, --but the argument is rendered unanswerable by another considera 10 113 tion.

The change which Abraham and Dives had undergone in the transition to their respective states did not render the knowledge of each other impossible; the exaltation of the on.