Unseen World; The Heavenly Blessedness or Where and What Is Heaven? Including an Inquiry Into State and Place of the Departed Between Death and the Resurrection (Paperback)

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. 1870 Excerpt: ... the fathers have fallen asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation." And he then adds: "For of this they are willingly ignorant, that by the word of God, the Heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: but the heavens and the earth which are now, by the same word are kept in store, Reserved Unto Fire," etc. "Nevertheless," he continues, "we, according to His promise, look for New HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH, WHEREIN DWELLETH RIGHTEOUSNESS." Now here, it is evident that St. Peter does not speak of three separate and distinct earths, but of the same earth under three separate and distinct states or conditions. First. He directs us, "6 To Ts xoff/xoi,"--that is, to the earth as it existed before the flood, called "the old world," or "the earth that then was," and which he tells us "perished with water." But, it was not annihilated: for he points us to it, second, "01 6s vvv ovparol xai 7 yrj"--that is, as the earth that has existed since the flood--" the earth and the Heavens which are now." And from this he proceeds directly to speak, third, "xaivovi 6e ovpavovi xal yrv xaivrjv--that is, of "the new heavens and earth,"1 which are still future. And, we now observe that, as though to remove all doubts as to the perpetuity of the same earth in passing through these successive transformations, the apostle, as he stands looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God," he speaks of it as that day "wherein the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,&qu...