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tkifc statement ? W hef e has tha t given us any $ utfa information ? There is ftet any thing ihere that bears the least resemblance to it , nor is there a single passage from which it can be fairly inferred . Mediatorial kingdom is a phrase not to be found in the scriptures , they know nothing uf such a
kingdom , and consequently cannot inform us that any will be excluded from it . What does me * dratorial kingdom mean ? Scripture , for the above reason cannot
inform us * Shall we then appeal to-analogy ? * This will not assist us ^ because it has no analogy with any thing we are acquainted with * Shall we appeal then to Doctor Estlifi ? He will be able
perhaps to explain the teims ; especially as they form so essential a p&rt of the system he is defending ; Let us hear him * 44 The kingdom of Christ ( he tells us , as 4
prl ^ l > faias it is preparatory or % iediatorial—that is the kingdGdnfc ^ f means , will have an end : it will have an end , and be delivered up to God , when the final
kingdom * which has been explained tobe the kingdom of truth , righteousness and happiness shall be established . " How unmeaning is this ! equally remote from reason and common sense as it is
from the scripture . Mediatorial kingdom , preparatory kingdom , a kingdom of means , final kingdom , are -ail of them phrases , invented to serve an hypothesis which fras na-et&e ££ upporu This quotation affirms , respecting the mediatorial kingdom of Christ , tfiat , " It will have an cn d * ?> This sentence , not only as i * nseriptural a ( s all the rest , but dkefe&y opposed to the vetfy Ian-£ u «* ge of jscripttwtv w « s loo im :-
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portarit not to be repeated . Pffc * phecy , spe . ak ing ^ 6 f the kingdom of . Christj says , Isa . ix * 7 > * ' Of ' the increase of his government
and pence , there shall he no end / ' And in the New Testament the angel tells Mary that , "He shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever , and of his kingdom there shall be no end . " See also Dan *
ch . vii . 14 , and ch . ii . 44 . Yet in the face of these prophecies * and without the least authority from other scriptures , Doctor Estlin makes the unqualified assertion , above quoted .
From hence we le&fn why the terms mediatorial . Sec . are applied to the kingdom of Christ , X , e ^ in order to get rid of the idea of its endless duration , and tp sup- ,
port the opposite one , i . e ^ that it will have a termination ; because if the duration of his kiogdom \ vilt be endless , as the scriptures affirm , aad jf the punishment i > f the wicked will consist in ah
exclusion from it , as the Doctor affirms , then that punishtAent atso will be endless . The Doctor considers the abovtf
cjtation firom p . 14 » 1 , as a sum * cient answer to 400 ^ age s of ntiy work ; he says , •*• I apprehend that the following brief observation will lead to an answer to the
rest of these two volumes , ? ' What this " brief observation" is , we have seen . The Doctor has cited two or three short paragraphs from that work , making together about one page of his , and these he
cites not to contipvert but to approve ; for hfe say $ , p . I 37 > reispectilig the propositions they can * . tain , Pitiable ; wouid be the state of intellect uf that person who should d « ny either of these propositions . " ** The rest of the vo *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1814, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2437/page/30/
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