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Taythe Rev. R* Wrtght;— On Future Punish...
& t & The final Utifoenal Restoration promised & Sfefipturt .
world s find to declare his will to men , ? it was that the righteous , & ifd the righteous only , should
obtain ultimately , immortality & nd everlasting happiness . Question tlie 2 d ~ V If -ait be not made ultimately iiappy is it because God bath changed his mind , '' & c . ?
Be / oFe this question can be properly asked , it is necessary to fchew where it is to be found that God ever promised to make all men , wicked as well as righteous , ultimately happy . The 3 rd and
4 th < jut'stions depending on the two first are fully replied to in % ho $ e . Had not Mr . Wrights mind been exercised at this time , as he tells us , about endless punishment , I should have been at
a loss to conceive how these ques . lions could have puzzled hwn But the fallacy of these questions , « nd all the arguments used by Universalists , rests upon a
fundamental error ; God in the works « xf nature , and the revelation of his will to men , has manifested stpd declared the plan of his divine government ; but the defenders <\ i Universal Restoration ,
withoat any warrantor evidence from cither , have set up a scheme of their own * by which they endeawour to support their opinion , which can justly be considered in no other light than an imaginary philosophical speculation *
The Final Universal Restoration Promised...
The final Universal Restoration promised in Sc ? tj > ture . r . 1 June 7 , 1814 . Sir ,,,
t While your learned -correspond . € &{ . § ^ m coutTuwt rti , ng , ) ihe solemn 9 # 4 , inipoitant , dv *? truu ^ of ^ 'dfstcycuvi * - mo * um *? i $ al * estpyafMo *^ n ^ y & . pk * m mm \ be
The Final Universal Restoration Promised...
permitted'to give his opitviOtt ^ in your useful Repository ? ^ After carefully examining their comtnu *
nications , and maturely considering the subject , I think the final restoration of all men is perfectly agreeable to the express word ^ of scripture , chat it is difficult to
shew what language more to the purpose could have beeti used , supposing this doctrine intended to be expressed , than \& foufld ift several passages ; and tliat ^ eonsequently , it is hot quite correct to say it is built on mere inferential reasoning . ^
God ' s promise to Abram , Gen . xii . 3 , In thee shall aH families of the earth be blessed : J > ^ ti ^ ved to him , Gen . xxiK 1 0 * * In thy seed shall all the nations of the
earth be blessed ^ ^ and repealed to Isaac , Gen . x ^ vi . 4 s laftite to J acob , Gen * x x viii . 14 v - * tt In thee and in thy se « d ' skfcH ^ M £ ke families of the sarth b * blessed :
as quoted by the apo ^ tle ^ Peier , Acts iii . 25 , * ' In thy - * £€ ? d s'hall all the kindreds of the ettrlitbe blessed : " must receive , trfi ^ t appears to me , a forced & tid unrtatural interpretation , to prevent the impartial reader , t ^ ho ^ has ' no
hypothesis to serve , frafft ttmderstanding the words as a positive promise that God v ^ ill , sootiwcr later , make thfe whole human race liappy ; and to restrict tife-fetessedness spoken of to apart of man ^ kind ^ ¦ . i - . - . ¦? . ^ ' ^ ¦ . *^ 'i
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 348, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/28/
