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Scripture Argument Jer Universal Restoration . ; , £ 7-3
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the great Christian apostacv in the latter times , when ' * matiy should depart from the truth . " A discussion of the theory of Mr . , Makhus would lead fne too far : but 1 do not see how he can be said to
* ' show human Ufe with the most dreadful aspect , " because he argues that the instincts which we share in common with the animal species , require the check of rational thought . E-
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other . The one is not deduced from the other by a chain of consequences , but is the meaning of the words ; unless indeed there be theological sense , far certainly there is not common sense .
in talking of the free and gracious gift of endless misery . My friend has abandoned his former restricted interpretation of Rom . viii . 19—23 , and now admits its universal reference . But there is still apother restriction which I hope he will break
through . He is content to believe that the deliverance of the wicked - * from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God , " means 110 more than that they shall be raised from U * e grave to suffer punishment . Surely this limitation , ats well as the other , is in his rnind and not in { he text . Putting his two interpretations together , we mav come to an
agreement . 13 y the first , the " -liberty of the children of God" is a state of pure enjoyment , and by the second , this liberty is promised to all mankind . J t is true that cc the word afterwards dt > es not necessarily imply a distant period , " but it must at any rate indicate a subsequent period . The enemies which K . Ju . supposes to be meant in 1 Cor . xv . 24 , will be put down before , and not after , the dav of itidtrmerit .
Sin and suffering are spiritual enemies of Christ ; they will then be the onrly enemies ; and all his enemies shall be put down . This appears to me to be * plain fact and not dubious inference . I shall conclude with a single remark on the mode of interpreting the vision of John , and other passages in - which it is allowed that terms imp lying universality are employed . It seems
to be taken for granted b y R . L . and others , that because sucn terms are sometimes used with obvious Fiihilations , they are not to be admitted in evidence on this subject . * It is trbe that words must be interpreted by things , and as Simpson observes , " In all " languages there are several words which must be understood in different
senses according to the subject' to which trjey are applied . " But then , Sir , in the' present case it should be shewn that there is in the subject some necessary limitation of the universality of the expression ' s . Sorriething should be indicated ^ n the declarations of BctiptUte , in die character of God , or tKe ftatutfe 4 f man * tfiat
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3 / r . Fox ' s Rejoinder to It . L . on the Argument from Scripture for Urnversal Restoration . Sir , April 20 , 1817-WILL trouble you with a few Ibrief animadversions on the last comrriunication of my friend It . L . fp . 1573 Sec ] , and then take rny leave of a controversy which must , I fear , to most of your readers be very
uninteresting . Whether R . L .. or Simpson has given the best account of the word kolasis ; 'whether Christ ' s universal spiritual authority have any thing to do , or not , With the final purity antl "happiness of its subjects ; whether bowing in the name of Jesus , and confessing that he is Lord to the glory of God the Father ,
be voluntary or constrained homage ; and whether God can command that which be does not desire , or desire that which he will not accomplish , are questions which I shall leave to be solved by what has been said already . If answered as I think they must be , the doctrine of-Restoration will remain in quiet possession of several direct
prediction ^ : It is admitted by R . L . [ p . 158 ] that the resurrection of all men is announced as a glorious deliverance , a blessing , and the gift of divine grace , . He ififers from these expressions that the wickeil will be subsequently reformed and finally happy , but does not perceive that it is predicted . I would not quarrel about a word ; but
if a Resurrection be no blessing independently of its results , if there be but one event which can make it a blessing to the wicked , if their resurrection being a gift of grace and a glorious deliverance depend altogether upon their subsequent restoration , then Paul ' s " assertion of the blessedness , &c . of their Vesjarrection is a prediction of their restoration . The expressions are equivalent and mdy be substituted for each
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1817, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2464/page/17/
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