Fragment: Life and Death

In Scripture, the terms "LIFE and DEATH" are used in various connections; and so in senses which differ. They are used as to the natural body; they are used, also, as to the moral inward state of man; and they are used as to man in his eternal state. Man, as at first created, was, as a creature, morally alive when placed in Eden. He had natural life in his body; he had not eternal, divine life in body, soul, or spirit.
Disobedience brought in moral death - death in trespasses and sins; it entailed mortality on the trespasser, laid him under the power of death, and pointed onward to the second death.
Faith gives a new, a divine nature, a seed that is incorruptible. To that seed belong affections, thoughts, intentions, desires, which all flow from Christ, and lead back, by the Spirit, to God: and this is shown in us while in the body; while on our way to God; while -waiting for Christ, and for the glorious bodies which He will give to us. God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.