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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. 1828 edition. Excerpt:...be found in Scripture, they have escaped my observation; and sure I am, that all writers with whom I have any acquaintance, assume the principle as correct, without attempting to prove it. Whatever others may do, it is a principle I cannot adopt myself, nor admit as correct in others, until I see it established by divine authority. The only exception I know of to these remarks, are the passages in question, which leads me to observe 3d. In the passages before us the principle of analogy is introduced, and reasoned on betwixt the present and future state of existence, but both the principle and the reasoning on it stand condemned. Who introduced this principle of analogy? Was it our Lord? No, it was done by the Sadducees; for they say concerning a woman who had seven husbands in this state, "in the resurrection whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her?" Well, did Jesus recognise the correctness of the principle of analogy, but reprove them for their abuse of it? No. Did he intimate that they carried it too far, or applied it in an improper manner 1 Nothing of the kind appears. Had our Lord recognised the correctness of the principle, but reproved them for their indiscreet use of it on this occasion, there would be some foundation laid for using it, but our Lord condemned both the principle and their reasonings from it. This will appear by considering 2d. Our Lord's reply to the Sadducees' question. How then does he answer it? 1st. He said to them, "ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures." In proof of this he quoted Exod. 3: 6. 16--" But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of...