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Taythe Rev. R* Wrtght;— On Future Punish...
^ UgS ^ B ^ ve r * to the doc tj ^ ne , l 4 * at tba punishment of the \ vi § kWlis eternal death ? L 5 ^ edoctr « ie ©» f life and immortality being promised to the
righto vis , and death being denounced against the wiclted ( as I observed in my former letfer ) y there is no doctriuethat I know more plainly declared , or oftener inculated in the . NewTestament ; in examining Vhe evidence I have counted above
fc > ne hundred passages where eilljeF life is promised exclusively tp ^ tfre righteous ^ death threatened € ;& clu $ ively to the wicked , or life and death contrasted in the same
passage asabe reward of the one and the punishment of the other ; audhowa Christian who , examining the New Testament for this doctrine ( and knowing all must undergo temporal death ) , with this mass of evidence can doubt
of the aueaning of the word death a $ any thing else than the total extinction of being , and endeavour to explain away tbe word as figurative , and then adopt a notion of at : future state of severe chastise *
jiivnt and discipline , at the end of which the wicked are to be admitted to immortality and endless happiness , not only without ope single plaintext to support it , but
m direct opposition to so many others , is difficult to understand ! You acknowledge in your pamphlet that there is no direct evidence in the New Testament in
favour of your doctrine * but that it is to be made out by general deduction and inference ; did this very acknowledgement never strike
your iiiind with doubt about the { probability of ita being the truth ? fpt pn < V doctrineiof r this i impou tauce , it . does strike mine n ^ ost st ^ owglyj Cm * fe » i m ' & there ii > ho
Taythe Rev. R* Wrtght;— On Future Punish...
direct evidence in its favoiilr ^ c ^§ you believe that t > f one mirtlBh of general readers of the NcfW -Tesl tainent without any previous biks on their minds in favour of this
doctrine , one of thetn woiild discover the notion dMJniversal Restitution f I should think not ! Being persuaded that it can onljr be made out in the same Way that some of the orthodox ddctrihe *
are by sitting down with a strong prejudice on the mind in favour of some particular opinion , afrcf then torturing texts to bei & r oh the subject , although in- reality they should not have the fcast connexion with it .
To conclude , the ^ u esti e ^ ti between us appests to "m £ to lie within a very narrow compass : yen have , I thmk , agreed with me that the New Testaments thfe
standard to ivhich we must ' potR appeal for the justification of ^ dtf opinions , and it iiiust be for ^ tfr readers , not ourselves / id S ^
teffmine which is best jusfified ^ b ^ that standard ; you wlio do ^ Cft bring forward one passage to ^ jtt ^ . tify your opinion , but build tij & jkj general inferences and deductit ^ s ^ or I who have prddticed 6 t ^^ ferted to sl great number of plai «^ fl ^
direct passages to support rh ^ ^ igument : wifh a few of lljese t shall conclude ;—Jesus ^ arthvttike ix , 124 , 25 , " For whdsdevejPsiitiM save his live shulllose it ; v btit : wti 6-soever wi 11 lose h is Hfe { of * my sake the same shall s 0 ; ve it z ^ fbi
what is a man advtihtagedi if fa gain the whole virorJd StttS losfe himself , or be cast " art ^ ay . ^* ( Sefc Dr . Sam . Cla ^ ke ^ pttWpliHise rift these two verses . ) Roftfan & Vi * ^ f is
4 < i For th ^ ^ ages sin tle ^ ath , but tbef gift ^ of God h etcrirfil lift Iftitm ^ h t fesui ChrJ ^ ^ ut ? L 6 ]? tf ^
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/26/
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