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A short method of prayer, and Spiritual torrents, tr. by A.W. Marston

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to the duration and the painfulness of the incap: city to do them which we have previously es perienced. I confess I do not understand th resurrection state of certain Christians, who profes to have attained it, and who yet remain all thei lives powerless and destitute ; for here the soul take up a true life. The actions of a raised man are th< actions of life ; and if the soul remain lifeless, I saj that it may be dead or buried, but not risen. A risen soul should be able to perform without diffi-culty all the actions which it has performed in the past, only they would be done in God. Did not Lazarus, after his resurrection, exercise all the functions of life as formerly, and Jesus Christ after His resurrection was willing to eat and to converse with men. And so of those who believe themselves to be risen with Christ, and who are nevertheless stunted in their spiritual growth and incapable of devotion, I say, that they do not possess a resurrec-tion life, for there everything is restored to the soul a hundred-fold. There is a beautiful illustration of this in the case of Job, whose history I consider a mirror of the spiritual life. First God robbed him