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    there c&n be * tvo dispute , ft is an assurance 6 f urtrivaled magnitude . Who yvilj saty thai the doctrine of xtitiversai restoration * ( assuming to he

    it ^ for & moment true ) equals wfeat " . \ tfe have now mentioned , either fax the clearness of its prooi £ <* r in tVve importance of its application ?

    It Kas been the general propensity of-believers in the gospel to seek for more io the records c 4 their religion thaa those records were ittteircUd to disclose . This

    appears to have been the habit of the late amiable Oowper , as may be seen in a letter which he wrote on occasion of his brother ' s death ;

    and we are of opinion that rt is not entirely confined to the class of Christians among whom he ranked . When once a theological hypothesis has been framed , it » . author and

    its admirers feel nt > great difficulty in discovering , that it best explains and feccwciles certain passages of scripture ' : and , by a very nataral illusion of the imagination and error of the judgment , they conceive that revelation evidently inculcates

    points of which perhaps the most we ean ^ witb truth affirm is that thVy are not at variance with revelation . Hence many persons are confident of its being an article of Christianity that the fitiure punishment of the wicked wlH issue

    in their recovery from sin and its direful effects ^ w hile some few maintain , with not lesfc of positi-Tity , that the ' language of the first pr ^ atrhefs of the gos pel * doom * to annihilation the irtfpemrent transgress err . : ' . ' *• ' ''• ' " - - " ¦ •

    W «* # * efa * fmm ceroimn ^ mo * dest and twuber incjjuiry on th ^ se ¦ ¦ -i ¦ I ¦ t i ¦ » V— ¦ r i I —* - ' i — -1 , ¦ — . ¦

    —r——? Or , by parity cf reason , that of annihilation

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    topics . Bui ^ me pr otest against eiftber the one * &r the other of the above conclusions being pressed upon us as ^ aa essential part , of a Gbristian ' s creed ; we protest , against tbe belief of either -being connected , inr the * ninds pf our

    readers , witii the adoption or the rejection of certam opinions as to the object of worship and the terms off acoeptancev To a reflecting person reasons wilj easily oc * oor why Infinite Wisdom , might

    see proper » ut to reveal more on this pointthun thesimple f ^ et trmt * ' God will render uuto eytyry wan according to his w ^ flvs ;* ' alad our reception , « # verally , oCthe 4 ea ^ t of universal restoration , and of that of final aixnilulatio % will not

    ^• xactly im&ca ^ e what ^ r « , ^ ur & ^ timents ccmcemifig the nature of Jesus Christ and tbe eflScacy of his death . .

    If we compare .. the * tmo b ^ po ^ theses together ,, we shall perhaps be sensible that the evidence pre * pooderates in behalf of Jt } u § form-i er . More thaja this , we -cfti »« ol

    venture , to assert . W « can have no infallible knowledge respecting future rewards and puaijpliroejita , beyond what i « eomncmnica't ^ d in ttie Bible . Presutn | rtio 0 s from the divine attributes and- government , from the comtitutipn of man and

    from aome real or supposed analogies , thbqgh tbey tjtiay not y& wholly destitute of Weight , ^^ n-^ dmis ^ ible , vvheh ^ the ' ^ ppe al i& made professedly to scripture ; by employing f rterfl , we abandon or de

    seem to sLbandbn , our avbvrfed . . § igm au 4 a , ri fa dagger of violalibg the simplicity © four reasonrifg and le ^ erfing it& Ibrte . This is the cOi ^ W ( JkIrrof W -jftfflteiS in the present cont * pvf ersj ; ^ lt 1 S an error from Wbkh > aa w « h »

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    ® 08 Reoi < w . ^ Simfwzu # E&sags o » tke Language * f Stripi&rc .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1813, page 608, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2432/page/48/