God's moral government here, for different ends: the one to establish a future state, the others to discredit the being of a God.
It deserves to be remarked, that, though a future state of rewards and punishments was maintained by the most eminent among the ancient philosophers, the resurrection of the body was a doctrine with which they were wholly unacquainted.
But it is to be remembered that, whether they had any notion of a future state or no, they had a promise which fulfilled for them substantially the same office as that does for us.
He knew of a future state, and longed for 'the last end of the righteous.
Moral and Mystical Worship, or System of a Future State.
Moral and Mystical Worship, or System of a Future State VI.
The finish'd torment of a future state, Compleat in all the parts of endless misery, And worse ten thousand times than not to BE!
The author above quoted, treating of the notion of the soul and a future state entertained by the Roman philosophers, proves their ideas to have been extremely vague and ill- defined.
It may not, however, be so generally known that the doctrine of Purgatory, or a future state of purification, was also held and taught in all the religious systems in the beginning.
Livingstone assures us "there is no need for beginning to tell even the most degraded of these people of the existence of a God, or of a future state--the facts being universally admitted.
Reverence for the gods, the recognition of an inflexible moral order, resignation to the decisions of Heaven, an abiding presentiment of a future state of reward and punishment, are strikingly predominant.
And in the "Laws" he insists upon the doctrine of a future state, in which men are to be rewarded or punished as the most conclusive evidence that we are under the moral government of God.
Because it is included in his Belief of a Future State, which, in his Character, I supposed him not to doubt of.
The abstract arguments for the immortality of the soul had always appeared to me vain trifling; and I was deeply convinced that nothing could assure us of a future state but a divine communication.
Yet I had not finally renounced the possibility, that Jesus might have had a divine mission to stimulate all our spiritual faculties, and to guarantee to us a future state of existence.
All we can say in excuse for this inconsistency is, that they really do not believe what they affirm concerning a future state; nor is there any better proof of it than the very inconsistency.
Of this there is a remarkable instance in the universal carelessness and stupidity of men with regard to a future state, where they show as obstinate an incredulity, as they do a blind credulity on other occasions.
We do not assume the attributes of the Deity, or the existence of a future state, in order to prove the reality of miracles.
If it be said, that the mere promise of a future state would do all this; I answer, that the mere promise of a future state, without any evidence to give credit or assurance to it, would do nothing.
Suppose him to design for mankind a future state; is it unlikely that he should acquaint him with it?
If it be asked whether we ought to rise beyond the average utilitarian morality, he replies, 'Yes, if there is a God and a future state.
They were content with declaring their disbelief of a future state.
Suppose Christ taught nothing more than a future state of retribution and the necessity and sufficiency of good morals, how are we to explain his forbidding these truths to be taught to any but Jews till after his resurrection?
Their notions of the boundary between life and death, which is also symbolically the limit of the material verge between this and a future state, are revealed in connection with the exhibition of flames of fire.
It is expected that these animals will resume their human shapes, in a future state, and hence their hunters, feign some clumsy excuses, for their present policy of killing them.
He believes a future state to be one of rewards, and restitutions, and not of punishments.
A future state is regarded by them, as a state of rewards, and not of punishments.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "future state" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
