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that * ¥ r&&& fftfeclude the pbssi bility of the equally extended reign of grace iinto eternal life , with respeet to those over whom sin hath reigoed unto death . The figurative language of scrip . ttiffc in which the wicked are compared to stubble and chaff , arvd are satid to be burnt up , will be
found , in some places at least , an examination , to be applied to the destruction of the wicked in t \ m world , who will afterwards te raised from the dead : ( See
Mai . iv . 1 . Matt . iii . 12 . ) consequently such forms of expression ftfttish no Conclusive argument dgainst the eternal existence of thbse to whom they are applied . J $ &j $ all men will be raised from the dead , i > y the power of an infljfitely wise and merciful God , Wtio is their Father , and grace arid life will "finally triumph over
sin and death to their utter de . s&tfcttbiv it is concluded , whatevef ^ ufR-rings the wicked may endifft here<er , as a punishment prd ^ ortioned to their offences , God
wl give them eternal existence , and all the happiness for which they - may progressively attain a moral fitness . lam , Sir , iuu <; Yours , &c . ^ A PLAIN CHRISTIAN .
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present state of , that important question : A question which evecy humane person , who thinks , seriously , must feel to be deeply ixu . terestirig ; for surely no one , who is influenced by the gospel , whose hreast is warmed with Christian
benevolence ; can be indifferent to what relates to the future and final state of millions of his brethr en <> f mankind . It does not appear , that either the duration oi future punishment ^ or its final issue , can be determined
merely by the words translated for ever , everlasting ^ &c . nor by those other terms , destruct ion ^ perdition and death . Your wora thy correspondents may continue to dispute about adjectives &n& nouns , and the convert * n oft thm
one into the other ; they mayacu : f cumulate criticisms on words ^ Jittfc unless they could divest the pri n * cipal terms , on which they hinge : the main question , of their
ambiguity and indefiniteness r which i& not possible to be done , they will , in this way , neither convince eack * other , nur fully satisfy their read-M ers . The war of words may go on , but the subject will reflattift perplexed j and there will be jt danger of its importance being dimioished , in the view of the unlearned , who may be led to con ?^
elude that the different opinions of it are founded on mere graot \ - matical niceties , of which they ; can be no judges . To me-it ap ^ pears , that both the terms useust to express the nature and the dii- ^ t
ration of future punishment leave the subject in much obscurity J perhaps this was the be * t state IB / ^ which it could be Uft j for whalM can be more altifrning tp the aiit *** , ner than the dread of unknown punishment , which is to continue
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- ^ ife&ioti respecting future PunisAmen t . 763
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A ^ iSto of the State of the Ques ~ * &W * , ' respecting Future PunishfHertit . a « i , 2 fov . 14 , 1814 . ^ SlR , After attending to the various cdfittmunications ^ which have appeared in your valuable Repositofy ^ on fut ur e punishment , it a Pl ** Sr 6 to me desirable , as con-^ Wy M pil ^ ible , to bring into ° &e view , what seems to be the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 765, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/37/
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