This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ...its consequences. "Sin is the sting of death," the deadly weapon through which death does his work, and has his power; but this weapon has been taken out of his hand. "The strength of sin is the law; " but the law has been divinely-vindicated, its claims have been satisfied. Its demands have been met in the Person and work of a divine human Mediator and Vindicator, --one who, identifying Himself with man in his sin and its penalty, identifies man with Him in His triumph over sin and death and all their consequences. The sting of death has been thus taken away; and death itself, in divine assurance, as in actual human experience, shall be finally and fully abolished. "Through death," He who proclaims Himself the resurrection and the life, through His own death of atoning sacrifice and suffering, " He destroyed him that had the power of death, that is, the Devil,"--the first great murderer of men's souls and bodies, --"and thus delivered them who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage." "I am come," is His own language, "that My sheep "--My people--" might have life, and that they might have it in exceeding abundance." "I am He that liveth, and was dead, and hold the keys of hell and of death." "He died and rose again, and lives, that He may be Lord both of the dead and of the living." "I," said He, "am the living bread that came down from heaven. If any man eat of that bread, he shall live forever." "I know My sheep, and I give unto them eternal life,"--life in the fullest sense of that word possible to human possession and enjoyment. Thus, in union with Him, they "die no...