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THE RESURRECTION

child will be, if possible, worse, because the devil never has sinned as a wicked child has done. Christ never died to save the devil, never loved him; but Christ has died for you and me, and has loved us beyond expression; if, therefore, we do not love him, nor be- lieve him, are we not more wicked than the devil? And as we were made in the image of God, and lost it by sin, so shall we be conformed to the image of the devil, if we do not leave off sinning and turn to God. Now, if the body is to be raised up, where is it to live? It is not to return here: