molishes and destroys the very foundation of their sinful system.
"Carnal in its conception it cannot survive.
"'The worship of the corporeal presence of Christ's natural flesh and blood' (vide the so-called Black rubric at the end of the order of the administration of the Lord's Supper) was always prohibited in the Protestant Reformed Communion, but this idolatrous practice has been the glory and boast of Babylon, and the aim and object of the Traitors, within the Established Church of England, whom we have habitually denounced.'
"'The times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.'
"Hidden by the Divine Providence till the fulness of time, a simple inscription has taught us the full meaning of Paul's mysterious words, 'Yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we Him no more.' — 2 Cor. v. 16.
"Paul and Protestantism are vindicated at last. 'There is a natural body and there is a spiritual body.' The spiritual body that manifested the resurrection of Jesus to His disciples has too long been identified with the natural body that was piously laid to rest by Joseph and Nicodemus. Much that has been obscure in the Gospel narratives is now explained.
"Men have always wondered that the Apostles, in preaching their risen Lord, attempted no explanation of His manifestations of Himself.
"We can understand now why it was that they were divinely protected from imagining that the spiritual Body is a dead body revived.
"How often have perplexed believers been troubled by the questions of our modern scientists as to the physical possibilities of a future resurrection of the body! The material substance of humanity is resolved into its
