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w expectoit ;^ The © octor ob * jccts first , to the propriety of the term salvation in this connection . Was not the Doctor aware that that t ^ rm forms a pnrt of the title of the work against which I was
writing ? If therefore there is any impropriety in the term , as here usedy that impropriety is not mine , but Dr . Chauncry ' s . On the assertion ^ that , cc The Doctrine of Universal Salvation is no where expressly caught in
ike Holy Scriptures / ' the Doctor observes , That with respect to the manner in which the doctrine is taught , the teacher is a better judge than ourselves ; ' * and after citing a passage of scripture which h ^ supposes includes the doctrine , although I caw perceive no reiatioii it has to ity he adds , " It is taught by necessary inference ftx > rn innumerable texts , ^ irid fro m all the moral attributes of the I > ivine Being . " The Doctor here f # ll >> admits the truth of , the as . S # * tk > iw that the doctrine is no
whjate < expressly taught in the scriptures ; but at the same tirno lie entirely evades the question in dispute between us ^ which is not tfoe manner in which the doctrine is taught , but whether the scriptures teach it at all . -Here then we are come to a pointy the truth of the doctrine is admitted to depend entirely on inferences drawn from passages qf scripture and from the atuifeutes : of God . But let us ask *
Had Jesus Christ and his apostles believed the doctrine of Universal Restitution , had the } ' attached that importance to it which the Doctor doesy and had they felt a $ lie feels respecting it , would they not have been explicit upon the subject ? Would AV hot have en-
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tered into their public disc&ti rses and formed a prominent feature in the epistles to the chui £ bes ? Would they not have stated i \
clearly , illustrated and expatiated upon it with rapture , and not hnve left it to be-diseovered by uncertain deductions , dt by mere inferential reasoning ? Most unf ^
doubtedly they would , had they believed it , and considered it ' in - essential iy connected with the ht > - nour of God and the happiness of mankind ; but as tve find 116 ^ thing like this in <\ ny part of tHe New Testament we must
necessarily conclude that it made nt > part of the counsel of God riev ^ aled to them , nor did h foriti any article of their crefcd * The doctrine of the future ptu nishment of the wicked , especially
with respect to ite > nature and du */ ration , forms the principal p&itof the Doctor ' s work ( con ^ istitVg of 211 pages ) , and although it i ^ repeatedly adverted to in * iht course of it , yet till be convex < W page 167 he does not attempt to
explain the nature of that punishment , or in what it will con * sist , notwithstanding his yvhoie systeitv in a great measure , depends upon th decision of thia question . < c The question ( he there tells us ) still remahis , In what , according to the scriptures , will the punishment of the wicked consist t" The decision of scripture on this subject is certainly of great importance . JLet us then attend to it , as stated by the Doo # tor . < 6 The scriptures , " headd ^ , * inform us that it will consist in
an exclusion from the mediatorial kingdom of Christ , and in great ankl inconceivable mental * an ^ guish , ' * Can any m ^ t \ acquainted with the New Teitanieatv admit
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/29/
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