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The Final Universal Restoration Promised...
^ Om pmbe the whole ? Had ttl ^ re ly the expression ^ all nations * been used some might have argued that was too vague , and ext ended the promised blessedness
only to some part of all nations ; but all the families , is more particular and definite ; and all kindreds is most comprehensive , it roust include the whole ; for there can be no individuals of the
human race who are not comprehended in 46 all the kindreds of the eartb *' Whatever the bles * sedness intends , it must , accord - ing to the natural import of the words , become universal , before Ibe divine promise is completely fulfilled .
At the time when the promise was first given to Abram , the in * habitants of Sodom , Gomorrah ^ and the cities of the , plain , were nation * or families of the earth .
They wefeball cut off * without being blessed according to the promise , under any view of it * What-vast multitudes of the kin * dreds of the earth have died with * .
out eren shearing of Christ , the iseed frf Abrarai , to whom the pro * mis < $ relates , Gal . i > i . lfj , " In fthetin * £ M are to be ; blessed ; " cow * # ? quently without participating , ftftder any view , in the blessedness promised I K God hath no btes *
6 * r > g * to cori 1 mt * nicate , through Jfcbe seed -of Abram , in a future jBt & te * t 6 those who have not beeii blessed in him in tbe present life , in whatever utai « they died ^ how isj tW promwe ^ i n its > fu 11 latitude , uvsr to be eoitvphetely fulfilled ?
T « apostle hath shown , Acts , HL & 6 , how ttten are to be blessed mcc ^ jrdi ng w the ancient promise wbieh Ji * quoted ; namely , by ^ fc ^ itlgf tui » tted « evcjry on ^ from ' his iniquities . Jn this way > accord-
The Final Universal Restoration Promised...
ing to his promise to Abram ^ vas the apostle understood it ) ® dd wiH Wess all the kindreds of tbe earth ; but if all the kindreds of the earth be turned ' . from "*' - rbfeir
iniquities , so considerable-a p & rfc of them as hfive died in their & ins > will not eternally remain in their sins , and under their dreadful effects , nor endlessly perish in their sins : consequently , 1
cannot see how the divine promise to Abram , according to the strict letter of it , can be cdmpletely fulfilled , without admitting that all men will be restored to ptfrity ; and if to purity surely to life and happiness *
In the above passages God is represented as speaking positivel y * and rests not the accomplishment of his promise on any fluctuating or uncertain cause : and we know
he is faithful , he hath said , "My counsel shall stand ; I will do all my pleasure * " ifi the promise he saith , not may be , but shall be Wessed . ' '
Probabl y ^ some of your readers may think I take the wards of the divine promise , in the passages quoted , too strictly and literally ; but I wish to be informed , why the divine threatenings , and the
passages which relate to future puniflhment , are te hav ^ the folk est latitude given them , and to be rigidly explained according to tlhe letter ; if the divine promises are not to hav 4 the same full latitude
of meaning given to them , and God's dedaratiom of mercy and grace are not also to be explained according to the strict fetter 6 f
them * Is th * re any thing in the divine character and perfections to limit the roeatning bf tht ? latter more than the former ? I cow wire 4 be contrary to b ^^ the fact ; A
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 349, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/29/
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