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title of Mr . Storehouse ' s second letter is * The Kingdom of Christ which is called JEonian is not eternal / ' and that in the letter he calls this bis " mediatorial kingdom . " But I have done with defence .
A few remarks will probably be expected ( and they shall be given with as much brevity as possible ) on the scheme which Air . Marsom has presented to the world in opposition to that of universal restitution . He expresses himself in these words : ** The passages
THEREFORE JOmTkT AKD SE * &A 3 LJkTWL'X SjHEW , TH AT TH EPUNISHMENT O ¥ SHE WICKEJ ) W 1 LI BE DESTRUCTION BY FIRE , AND THAT THAT DESTRUCTION WILE ££ EVERLASTING . "
Father- of mercies ! Is it possible that any of thy rational offspring should have conceived the icka that this—this isA the con * - siuxinaakion of all thy dispensations ? The weight of such an article of
belief what power of evidence is f | Jt > le to support I Let me inquire what t ^ jrnas of execration an < i horror does Mr . Marsom apply to the doctrine # i the eternity of J * ell tqrqaents ! ^ hese terms , vrhat . ^^ er tfeey ; n * &y be * withdrawing oply the sign ; erf the superlative degree aye applicable to his own JbypotfeesiSf I tremble when I reflect oa what your correspondent
( I am persuaded with no impious design ) has insinuated respecting 4 fee anoral perfections of the Sut > reme Being . I did intend to ^ flter anto a particular considera-Jion of this part of his letter * I
dar ^ not quote it . I infill not reply t ^> it . I am not called upon , fMfc jtjie present occasion , to lay sk > Mfn tk $ ; first principles of inatu * ral religion I take it for grained the controversy inclosed . Some
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^ nay probably rise up in Aetence of a doctrine which I believe . I have only once mentioned that of annihilation without a resurrection , but I can scarcely bring myself to believe tihat a Them ,
a Christian , and an Unitarian will . again write a book With the pro « - fessed design of shewing that the scriptures teach that myrimfe < ff Jiuman beings will be raised froM tbe ^ dead only that they may be miserable and be burned . And it
must not be forgotten that in thfe moral character of some of theBfc outcasts of the creation * nd < rf some of the heirs of immortality , there is oraly owe shade of & \ f 8 et < -
ence . U Thou thoogMest that f was altogether such an one as thy - self , " is represented as the Jattw guage of the Most High to oile who had formed false notions of
his character * It eann < % ho ^ ri . ever , be applied in the present case , as not even the inost urifeel * . ing despot that ever sacrificed ittifclions at the shrine of ambitioti i ^
a character of such malignityi In one word , the doctrine just t » 6 &-tioned subverts every mortal uttti * - butt of the Supreme Being , and what is the character of all his attributes , his immutability . But there is one consideration whith
is not often attended to > it is # virtual denial oi the unify of Gd ^ J . From the correspondence Which the publication of these Discourses has procured me ( for all the l £ fe * ters which I have received do not
breathe the same spirit us those contained in your Repository ) I beg leave to extract the following passage ; which , as I do not take
the liberty of mentioning the name of the writer * I kope his « eal for the cause will jpeirnrit me t € ^ make use of , as the most appropriate
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Dr . Estlin , in Reply to Mr . Marsom , on Future Punishment . 483
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1814, page 483, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2443/page/35/
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