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That it ever means any other than htiraan beings would be difficult to prove . Besides , symbolical persons , fictitious beings , and
personifications , cannot be the subjects of punishment ; because they havt ; no real existence . Sin > temptation , error , misery , moral and natural evil , sinful habits , &c . are alt of them , abstractly
considered , considered without relation to softie agent or subject , mere non entities , incapable of punishment ; the same also may be said of death and hades . The Greek word rendered to destroy occurs three times in relation to
death ; in one place it is rendered abolish , and so it ought to have beeti rendered in the other two ; it signifies to annul , to abolish , to make void , or of no effect . That tfre fire of hell nill be a
purifying fire to persons ^ but a con . suniing fire to sins , is affirmed , not only without evidence , but in direct opposition to all the plain declarations of the scriptures ; they affirm that it will consume the
adversaries ; that God will render indignation and wrath , not upon every sin , but upon every soul of man that c ' loeth evil . The Son of man shall gather out of his kingdom all things that © fiend , and them who do iniquity ; and shall cast them into a furnace oi
fire . Such is the Doctor ' s account of the nature of future punishment , as referring to qualities , habits , non-entities , &c . and not to Uien ^ which is to make it no punishment at all , and
consequently the final restitution ol the wicked from it impossible , and the arguments in support of that < loctrtrie e / itirety void . With respect to the a ord aittiviof Dr . Estlin attiritis ( p . 43 : ) , t'ftdt
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it " does not in itself signify eternal , everlasting , or fur ever- That it may be applied to a subject whose duration is ' unlimited muist
be allowed , as indeed it is to the life of the righteous and the existence of God y but then it receives and dors not give the idea of endless . '' These are the Doctor's assertions ; but assertion is not
proof . On the contrary , it is evident , from the following instances , that the idea of endless is inherent in the word cuwvios , and not derived from any thing with which itis connected . " Mini
who liveth for ever . * ' In this sentence the idea ' of endless is not conveyed either by the pronouns or the verb , they do not possess that idea , and therefore cannot give it . 4 ' The King eternal , The everlasting God . " The idea
of endless here is neither contained in the term King , nor God , for ihose tf rms are applied to mortal men , as then they do not contain that idea they cannot communicate it to the word aicuvioc , which
alone , in these instances conveys that idea . The Doctor tells us , p . 44 , that , " The substantive ( iEon ) of which ir , ( Ionian , as he writes the wordb ) is the . adjective ,
signifies life , age , period , or ill its most extended sense dispensation . " And in p , 45 , he ' says ; «* That the sense of the adjective nnifct be ascertained by the substantive , you may be as confident as that the meaning of the words dail y *
weekly , monthly , and yearly is frxed by that of the words day , week , month , year . " Take thru the Doctor's rule . The proper -adjectives formed ircym the sttbstat-ittveft life , age , period , ' dispensation , must be lrvr ] y » fcgedbperiodical ?
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1 Z& 6 Mr . Marsoms Strictures on Dr . Esllin * $ Discourses .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1814, page 286, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2440/page/30/
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