A Series of Letters to a Universalist: In which the Subject of Modern Universalism is Examined; the Arguments by which it is Supported, Refuted, and Its Falsity and Absurdity Clearly Proved by the Dictates of Common Sense, the Light of Sound Philosophy and the Word of God |
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... fact that God everywhere addresses him as a moral agent , gives him a moral law , blames him for its violation , commends him for obedience , promises and threatens him , rewards and punishes him . The whole of divine revelation , from ...
... fact that God everywhere addresses him as a moral agent , gives him a moral law , blames him for its violation , commends him for obedience , promises and threatens him , rewards and punishes him . The whole of divine revelation , from ...
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... fact that mankind- ( their religious creeds out of sight- ) universally regard each other as moral agents . They establish governments , form laws , form contracts , administer rewards and punishments , and regard each other as ...
... fact that mankind- ( their religious creeds out of sight- ) universally regard each other as moral agents . They establish governments , form laws , form contracts , administer rewards and punishments , and regard each other as ...
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... fact that modern Universalism destroys the whole plan of salvation by Christ . Take whatever view of the subject you please , and the result here stated is inevitable . It destroys the whole plan of salvation , in the first place , by ...
... fact that modern Universalism destroys the whole plan of salvation by Christ . Take whatever view of the subject you please , and the result here stated is inevitable . It destroys the whole plan of salvation , in the first place , by ...
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... fact . Accord- ing to your system there is , strictly speaking , no grace of God , no mercy , no forgiveness , no salvation ; but if you call a state of future happiness - a state never forfeited by sin , salvation , then DEATH and not ...
... fact . Accord- ing to your system there is , strictly speaking , no grace of God , no mercy , no forgiveness , no salvation ; but if you call a state of future happiness - a state never forfeited by sin , salvation , then DEATH and not ...
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... fact that it cannot co - exist with experimental re- ligion . Whenever and wherever a soul harboring this delu- sion is heartily converted to God , the Universalism immedi- ately disappears . Hundreds of cases occur every year in the ...
... fact that it cannot co - exist with experimental re- ligion . Whenever and wherever a soul harboring this delu- sion is heartily converted to God , the Universalism immedi- ately disappears . Hundreds of cases occur every year in the ...
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Page 118 - But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Page 113 - For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God : and the dead in Christ shall rise first...
Page 67 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead ; to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Page 27 - But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.
Page 41 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Page 107 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Page 27 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often,...
Page 99 - He that soweth the good seed is the Son of Man : the field is the world : the good seed are the children of the kingdom ; but the tares are the children of the wicked one ; 39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest.
Page 110 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Page 70 - But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear ; Fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell ; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.