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vViOrds V . he frequently asserts the contrary ? If the Doctor has sue ceeded in this point he has completely set aside every argument for thfe doctrine of Universal Restoration . Let us sre then what be has done ia this way . First he attempts to do away the idea of future punishment by asserting : that xohxene does not
mean punishment , but correction . This lie asserts , not only wiihout any attempt to prove it , but in opposition to that evidence which the New Testament furnishes , to prove the contrary , and which has been adduced .
_\ In the next place he repeatedly affirms that ihe enemies of Christ , whom be will finally destroy , are not mqa , but symbolical personages , ( n p , £ 39 , besays , " Through
the wiole of his ( MarsonVs ) book , lie supposes that the enemies of Christ , whom be will finally dest rpy are not the symbolical per * spnages , sir ) and death , but men . " Now the Doctor well knows that
ihe scriptures apply the term d <* - A ^ ruction tQ men , to men both in body and soul , and that they affirm that that will be the punish , fluent of the wicked . Now pu . nhbnneni can only be inflicted on sentient beings , on proper persons ; symbolical persons are incapable of it .
Having quoted Rev . _ xx . 10 . p . 55 , he says , * Now it is obvious to remark , that this text does not relate to human beings at all ^ but to the devil , by which word I catiuot but understand the
principle of evil personified . This Symbolical person , with the beast and t [ u } fiilse prophet , which are likewise . symbolical persons , shall be tormented -day ond . nigl > t for eyer and erer . " P . 81 . he suvs , ml 7
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" The devil is a personific&tidta ot the principle of evil , and hitf'&ngels a personification of * he effects of evi ) or its necessary attendants . Is it not then ( he adds ) more than hinted at , that sin , anfd ? death , and all their angels and a « s <^ ri « tp <
are to be destroyed V In p . 51 , on Matt . xxv . 41 , he says , ** Fire prepared for the devil and his angels , suggests the idea , that into this fire the principle of evil , with his servants and messengers vrould be cast , probably , that sin and temptation would be here
consumed ; ' P . 62 , he says , " This figurative fire—a purifying &s well "as a consuming fire- ^ -will purify the soul and consume the sin . ! n p . \ b \ speaking of the devil , he sa ^ s , ic The kingdom of this real , or fictitious being is the kingdom of error , of moral and
natural evil , that is of sin and misery , and of death . " In p- 160 , speaking of the enemies that shall be put under Christ ' s feet ^ he asks , t 4 What can these enemies be , but error , sin and misery ?" lap , 121 . We have the following cross misrepresentation of the
language of scripture : The last enemies , " he says , * ¦ ' that are to be destroyed , are sin and death . " Page 173 . He says , the punishment of the wicked is necessary to destroy—not ihenjselves—but their sinful habits /' Although the Doctor so re *
peatedly asserts , that the devil is a personification of evil , he has not made use of a single argument to provo the assertion . That ; he term deiil rs applied to human brings , both men and women , in the New Testament is beyond all dispute . Twice in the bot ) k , ol Esther ^ in the Srptmifrim Veirsioo , HVimtin i ' * cnlletj the JFevrfk' Dtvrt
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Mr * Marsom ' s Strictures on Dr . Estlin ' s Disiourfas , * £ 85
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/29/
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