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BIBLIC4X. CRITICISM.
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Biblic4x. Criticism.
BIBLIC 4 X . CRITICISM .
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To the Editor of the JSloiitkly Repository .
Br id port , sir , March 3 , 1808 . The doctrine of a general resurrection from the . dead and impartial judgment , when every
one will be treated aceordmgto his real character , thoush beyond the powers of the unassisted human intellect to discover , is when revealed consonant with reason , and satisfactorily accounts for
many of the dispensations of providence in the present state , which would otherwise be involved in clouds and darkness . Christianity teaches us , that we are now in the infancy of the first stage of existence , and " a great
unbounded prospect lies before us . " We can at present indeed discern but a little part of that grand and infinitely wise and benevolent scheme of government , which the succession of ages in infinity , will be gradually unfolding .
With respect to a future jud g- * ment , whether the process of it will be conducted immediately by God himself , or through the medium of a person appointed
and duly qualified by him , for this important office , must be determined bv the same divine reveicition , which teaches the doctrine of fimil retribution . On this
point it is declared , that God wil ( judge the world by Jesus Christ . Some Christians have supposed , that though this may refer to the final distribution of rewards and
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punishments , nothing more is meant by it , than that the Deity will judge mankind , according to the principles of the gospel * My attention however was peculiarly
attracted by a novel , opinion maintained on this subject , by a writer in your Monthly Repository , for January , 1 SQ 8 , whose signature is P . K . He conceives that the judgment of the world
by Jesus Christ , signifies merely the successful spread of the principles of the gospel , ( if I do not mistake his meaning ); , that "it commenced at the time when our Lord ' s commission to our world was fully established , ajid the
Christian doctrine was first reveal * ed to man , " and has no reference whatever , to the final day of accounts . Without undertaking to determine the , precise , sense of John , v . 22 , 23 , and John , xvi . S . I propose to quote a fevy
passages which I think plainly and unequivocally refer to a future judgment by Jesus Christ . " John v . 28 , 29- The hour is coming when all that are in their
gravesshall hear his voice , the voice of the son of man , and come forth , they that have done good to the resurrection of life , and they that have done evil , to the resurrection
of condemnation or punishment /' Can this refer merely to the spread of Christian principles , or to any transaction in the present scene of things . «« Matthew , xvi . 27 . The
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Mil . HOWE , ON THE JUDGMENT OF THE WORLD BY JESUS CHRIST .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1808, page 563, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2397/page/39/
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