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4 r . J ( f does not appear to me to materially affect the question whether the words death , destruction ,
&c . be taken literally or figuratively ; what I wish your correspondents to do to satisfy me , is to prove that such words are connected with the future death or
destruction of the wicked , in the New Testament , as necessarily teach that such death or destruction will be endless ; for if the words will admit of a different construction , it appears to me , we ought always to give them that construction which will best agree
with the divine character . 5 , We are told , thai death , the last enemy , shall be destroyed , ] Cor . xv . 26 . That a time will coftie when there shall be no more
death , Rev , xxi . 4 , Hence UniversaJhts have argued , that , whether the second death be literal or %£ rfcUye , it cannot be endless : that if the words of Paul be restricted to the first death , it will not be true that the destruction of
it will be the destruction of the last enemy ; as another , and a greater enemy , the second death , will remain : that it cannot be
true that death is no more , so long as any remain under the power of it ; as death is said to be iti- 3- house so long as a dead person remains in it : that death can be
destroyed only by the universal prevalence of life . I am anxious to hear this argument of the universalists , which appears to me to have some weight , fairly answered * 6 . I wish your correspondents who advocate the destruction
scheme to inform me how far they extend jt . Whether they suppose the heathen , both before and since
the coming of Christ , before whom future rewards uad punishments
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never were placed , will , so rnihy of them as died in sin , be utterly destroyed , or placed in a remedial
state , when raised from the dead . The same inquiry I request th ^ m to answer respecting the Jews who lived under the law , which did not threaten future punishment .
7 . If eternal life is to be the portion only of those who believe , I wish them to say what is to be the future lot of the multitudes of those who have died in infancy , and were incapable of believing ; because on that supposition eternal life cannot be their portion ?
Should you think this paper worthy a place in your valuable Miscellany , and Mr . Marsom , or any other person who writes on the side of destruction , will at * tempt to answer the above inqui . rus and remove the above difficulties , I shall be thankful . Sir , Yours , &c . SENEX *
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Mr . Marsorn s Strictures on Dr * EstlirCs Discourses . Letter III . High Hoi born , June 30 , 1813 * Sir ,
in a former letter , in reply to the arguments of Dr . Estlin on the doctrine of Universal Restitution , we have seen lhat he relinquishes the idea of proving the doctrine from any express declarations of scripture , and rests the whole
proof upon inferences * which he thinks may be fairly drawn from some passages of scripture , and from the attributes of Gud ; together with the supposed fact , that ie The end of punishment in the divine government is to rafornpV * This the doctor considers as of the first importance in the c 6 tt | rt > versv >
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Mr . Marsom ' s Strictures on Dr * EstMrfis Discourses . 277
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 277, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/21/
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