But people will meet us with the objection that though God wills Life to us, He does not will it just yet, but only in some dim far-off future.

How do we know this?
Certainly not from the Bible.

In the Bible Jesus speaks of two classes of persons who believe on Him as the Manifestation or Individualisation of the Spirit of Life.

He speaks of those who, having passed through death, still believe on Him, and says that these _shall_ live--a future event.

And at the same time He speaks of those who are living and believe on Him, and says that they shall never die--thus contemplating the entire elimination of the contingency of death (John xi.
25).
Again St.Paul expresses his wish not to be unclothed but to be clothed upon, which he certainly would not have done had he considered the latter alternative a nonsensical fancy.