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    of being a * gloss y an inference the more probable , as the text of thfe booJr is still very far from having been restored to purity .. $ & £ ipw in 1 Cor . iii . 17-,- seems

    todoscribe punishrnentindefiiiiteiy , without any relation to future punishment in particular : and this remark may be extended to its de . rivative < p 8 opa . The strict meaning of xbXa < n $ is corrective punish . nient . It is observable that we

    meet with the substantive but twice in the gospels and epistles . How fatr a word of such infrequent occurrence , will warrant the conclusion sometimes deduced from it , may adnnit of doubt . The eleventh section contains

    arguments to shew that future punishment will reform the wicked , and fit them for pure and spiritual happiness . Of these arguments some are scriptural : but some are derived from other sources—from

    analogies in the divine government and from the natural suggestions of the human heart . Nor do we look upon Mr . Simpsons quotations from the New

    Testament as being uniformly pertinent . We , a ) Jow indeed that Rorru v . 15 , ore . is highly deserving of regard . The stress however placed by the ivriter , on such , phrases as I will draw all men unto me , re *

    concile all things to himself , the Saviour of all men ^ the sins of tHe whole world , &c . is perhaps excessive . These and similar , pas * sages , we expound not of all men literally and individually * but of the universality of the Christian

    dispensation , of the equal com . municaticin of ita blessings to the two gr * P + divi $ iQfi $ gf mpykind , of H W ? P A ^ WS Jew ? and ; Relieving Gei ^ lep . ip ^ the church of Christ .

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    The fol lowing ** bswv& $ ibns Site forcible and important , ( p . 67 ) i k € Had Jesus or his apostles designed to have represented the deration of future punishment by terms th ^ t Aigiu ^ ied extinction of being after a certain period of misery , or never ceasing

    torment , they might easily have done either of these . TiiLujziOL is used for the greatest punishment ; tteh . x . 29 : and ai $ io $ 9 ^ proper eternity ; Rom # i . 20 ; Wisdom vii . 26 . By these words * which are stronger than any that are appl . cd to future punishment in the New Testament , Josephus has expressed the idea i ? vhichr the Pharisees entertained of . th £ never ceasing torments of the wicked . De Bello Judaic ^ lib . ii . cap . Viii , sec . 14 , p . 1065 , e& Hudson . "

    In pp . 68 , 69 ,, our author , from his foregoing enumeration of texts , forms inferences decidedly in favour of the doctrine of final

    universal restoration to virtue and happiness . His twelfth section contains objections and replies . In this part of bis uriaextaklng hi « judgment an 4 ability are ipo | lea ^ t conspicuous ; we . should gJadJy make some extracts from it did ^ not our limits constrain us to refer

    our readers to the work itseii . Under the second chapter , cantaining thirteen sections , nn entimeration is made of Greek -termS employed by the writers of the New Testament to describe the

    duration of the future happine 9 « of the righteous . In two passages &n ] V £% e $ \ & used of limited ^ in two , of unlimited , existence . Concerning this and every similar word , in its application to the

    present subject * one remark may be n > ad « $ : The life of virtuous iXjen in the world to come , is always sppken of , by Jesus and his apostles , as everlQ&tingf It is declared to b ^ s ^ ch Jua : m ^ many places and in so great a variety of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 606, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/46/