destruction and removal of the aforesaid image, on the full determination of the aforesaid ages, and on the commencement of a new and eternal age, "the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed;" that he will himself appear "in the clouds of heaven," as "the Son of Man" and at the same time as "the Ancient of Days;" and that in this double character he will claim to himself, and triumphantly receive, "dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him; whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and whose kingdom shall not be destroyed," Daniel ii. 44; chap. vii. 13, 14. This kingdom, this age, this church, is already begun; and it's name, which was first pronounced in heaven, and is now repeated on earth, is New Jerusalem.
XXXVI. Death and Resurrection.
MAN was so created, that as to his internal he can never die: for he can think of God, believe in God, and love God, and so be conjoined to God by faith and love. This capacity, which distinguishes man from the brute beasts, enables him to live for ever. His external, which is called the body, is intended to serve him for uses in the natural world, and to lay as it were the foundation of his future and eternal existence. This external is rejected by death, and, being no longer needful, is never again re-assumed. But his internal, which is called his spirit, is adapted to the performance of uses in the spiritual world; and therefore, as before observed, it never dies. This internal, after the death of the body, is a good spirit or an angel, if the man, while living in
