Excerpt from Thoughts on Eternal Life: A Series of Occasional Tracts By birthright he was a member of God's chosen and separated nation. By his upright and moral life in Obedi ence to written law, he doubtless, like Saul of Tarsus and other zealous Jews, considered lif'e eternal his just due. As a devout Hebrew, as Ruler, as Doctor of Divinity (for that is the modern equivalent of his title), he stands before us in the sacred page as a representative Israelite, specimen from a nation which Omnipotent Wisdom had Specially chosen from among all the peoples of the earth, and had educated, disciplined, and trained. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.