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T)?. Estlin, Hi Reply To "Mr. Marsom 9 O...
b 6 accounted , but I cannot help turning away from both bodily arid mental operations . The subject before us Sir , is the most awful possible . It is no less than the character of the
grfcat Governor of the Universe ; the character of those laws by
which he governs h ) s rational creatures ; and the everlasting state © t ; by fa f , the greater part of the human race . I confess , on this tremendous subject , —in the
contemplation of which , every devout aW < l benevolent feeling ought to be at its full stretch , and the whole sonl clothed with humility , —a flippancy of manner , an appearance of self . complacency derived from a presumption of managing with adroitness the weapons of
controversy , —above ail , a more than acquiescence in * the supposed coifseqviences—one the everlasting niiSery , the other the misery ^ nd actual burning of myriads or
beings raised from that state to which they are again to be reduced solely for this purpose—have agitated me iieyoncl conception whea 1 have beeh reading the works of writers iiri favour both of the doctiine of
the ** eternity of he ) I torments , " and of that of annihilation * The latter of these two systems * wji & h is opposed to that of Universal Restitution , and which is
stijfiported with so much zeal by yout correspondent , is grounded on two texts of scripture which wfere particularly considered in nty discourses , but which , on account of the objections which have been made to the statement there
givetfi , and £ or the information of yoirf readers who may not have atl cTgporttinity of examining it for thimi ^ lv e ^ , must be made the
T)?. Estlin, Hi Reply To "Mr. Marsom 9 O...
subject of a more minute investt * gation . The passages alluded to are those in Matt , xxv . 46 , and 2 Thess . i . 9 , which I shall give both in our translation and in the
original . And these shall go away into everlasting punishment "
K # * cc 7 rsXsi )( To y rcci ovroi $ i $ xoXec ' - criv ctfouviov : and if who shall be punished with everlasting destruc * tionfrom the presence of the Lord 9 and from the glory of his power . ' ' ( f mv & s Sixyv ? L & ovrnv Sk & pw
Gtl OUVIOV OCTtO TTpQcrCA / TfOV tOJJ KVfrQV xoci ohto t % o £ oj £ tjjV fcx 1 * * a & m rov * Your correspondent says * in page 226 , " The passages therefore , Jointly and separately shew that the punishment of the wicked will be destruction by fire , and that that destruction will be
everlasting . ' y I have been accused , Sir , of confidence . It is the subject of my daily prayers . Under the vi * cissitudes and disappointments of life I pray for confidence in the
divine perfections as the foundation of religious hope and j oy * This is the only confidence which I have expressed , and I bless God that he has granted it to me , I will rejoice in the Lord , I will joy in the God of my salvation * If a confidence in my own skill
in languages and logic had led me from the words before me to infer the doctrine before me * and to express myself in very strong terms against the doctrine of Uni * versal Restitution , . and in terms
of asperity against the advocates for it , 1 should , in , my cooler moments , hftve been led to doubt whether this tQqfitfencc wq & built on a proper foundation . To speak plainly , the scheme
Dr. E&Tliri, In Reply To Mr. Marsom, On ...
Dr . E & tliri , in Reply to Mr . Marsom , on Future Punishment . 351
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1814, page 351, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/mrp_02061814/page/31/
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