I would ask you to revolve these propositions through your mind very
seriously. See if you can find a flaw in any of them; and conceive if
you can, of any reasonable theory whereby any of them may be
controverted.
I would conclude this part of our subject by citing some passages of
Scripture. The references in some cases may have a more limited and
restricted meaning; but they all tend in the same direction. There are
certain stars which, seen by the naked eye, are single, but when
observed through a telescope are seen to be double stars. Being of the
same appearance, and lying in the same direction, they are fused into
one, though there may a vast space between.
It is so in many passages in the Word of God. They have a double
meaning; one nearer, and one more remote. Events are foretold which are
realized in part in this life, and fully in the life to come. The fact
is, that in many cases we have to take in the future life in order to
understand the reference at all. It has been too much our habit not to
look for definiteness and accuracy, because we imagined the events must
find their fulfillment in the present life. But When our outlook goes
beyond this life, we see a reasonableness and harmony that we did not
see before.
This will be apparent in some of these passages.
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