According to endless misery punishment is both disproportionate
and uncertain,...
The probable origin of hell,.
The foreknowledge of events, prove also their foreappointment,. 282, 283 If sin is of God's appointment, I will commit as much of it as I please,......
283 No rational ground betwixt foreknowledge and foreordination,.. 285, 286 The foreappointment of ends implies also a foreappointment of
I am a free agent, for I can do as I please,..
God controls us by the agency of our will, not against it,.
Why is one a christian, and another not?..
Why suffer we for sin if it is unavoidable?...
Facts prove that our advantages over others are not of our own making,....
Election does not necessarily imply reprobation,..
It were partiality in God to pardon some who are as guilty as others whom he executes,...
Why are means necessary for bringing about a result which is
unchangeably foreordained?..
God is as accountable for what he permits, as for what he ordains,
If we say that the scriptural terms rendered forever, everlasting,
etc., radically signify eternity, how will we get along with the
Jew?.
We cannot form an adequate conception of eternity,.
Our happiness is increased by contrast,..
If even there be no punishment in eternity, men may be advantaged according to their advancement in moral improvement in
TO THE SCRIPTURE TEXTS COMMENTED ON IN THIS WORK, WHICH ARE
USUALLY URGED AGAINST THE UNIVERSALIAN FAITH.
Prov. i. 26. I also will laugh at your calamity, etc...
John xvii. 9. I pray not for the world,...
Jude, verse 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about
them, in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication,
and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suf-
fering the vengeance of eternal fire,....
....... 114, 115
Rom. ix. 1-3. I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience
also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great
heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. For I could wish
that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my
kinsmen according to the flesh,..
Rom. x. 1. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for
Israel is, that they might be saved,..
Ezek. xviii. 4. The soul that sinneth, it shall die,..
Mark xvi. 16. He that believeth not shall be damned,.
Gal. vi. 8. For he that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reap
corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit
reap life everlasting,.......
2 Cor. v. 10. For we must all appear before the judgment-seat
of Christ, that every one may receive the things done in his
body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or
bad,...
Matt. xix. 16. What good thing shall I do, that I may inherit
eternal life,...
Matt. vii. 13. Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many
there be which go in thereat,....
Heb. xii. 14. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord,.... 142
Matt. xxv. 31, 46. When the Son of man shall come in his
glory, etc., and all others pertaining to Christ's coming to judge
and reward men according to their works,.......
Mal. iv. 1-6. Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven,
etc.,..
Matt. viii, 11, 12. Ye shall see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and
all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and ye yourselves shall
be thrust out,.
Luke xvi. 19-31. The rich man and Lazarus, . .167, 168, 184, 187
Matt. xxv. 1-12. The ten virgins,..
Matt. xxii. 11. And when the king came in to see the guests, he
saw there a man which had not on a wedding-garment,..
Matt. xiii. 24-30. The tares and wheat,..
Matt. xiii. 47, 48. The net cast into the sea,.
Matt. xxv. 46. And these shall go away into everlasting punish-
ment: but the righteous into life eternal,.........174, 175, 186, 187
Matt. xxv. 45. The devil and his angels,.
Matt. xi. 21, 22. Woe unto thee, Chorazin, etc. It shall be
more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment than
for thee...
Acts xvii. 30, 31. Because he hath appointed a day, in the which
he will judge the world in righteousness, etc.,....
2 Pet. iii. 7-13. But the heavens and the earth which are now,
are reserved unto fire against the day of judgment, etc.,....205-207
2 Thess. i. 6—10. Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to re-
compense tribulation to them that trouble you; and to you
who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be
revealed from heaven with his mighty angels, in flaming fire
taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey
not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: who shall be punished
with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and
from the glory of his power; when he shall come to be glori-
fied in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe
(because our testimony among you was believed) in that
day,......
....207-21
Heb. ix. 27. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this
the judgment,. . . .
.......211-213
Rev. xx. 11-15. And I saw a great white throne, and him that
sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away;
and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead,
small and great, stand before God: and the books were opened;
and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and
the dead were judged out of those things which were written
in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up
the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the
dead which were in them: and they were judged every man
according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the
lake of fire. This is the second death. And whosoever was
not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of
fire. (And its parallel text in Daniel,)..
....213-217
Matt. xvi. 26. For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the
whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give
in exchange for his soul?..
Eccles. viii. 11. Because sentence against an evil work is not
executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully
set in them to do evil,..
Dan. xii. 2. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth
shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and
everlasting contempt,...
John v. 28, 29. Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in Page
the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and
shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrec-
tion of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrec-
tion of damnation,....
John viii. 21. Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way,
and ye shall seek and shall die in your sins: whither I go,
ye cannot come,.
Matt. xii. 31, 32.
But whosoever speaketh against the Holy
Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, nei-
ther in the world to come,..
Matt. xxvi. 24. But woe unto that man by whom the Son of
man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not
been born. (And all the texts pertaining to Judas,).......229-231
John iii. 3. Except a man be born again, he cannot see the king-
dom of God,.. .
1 Cor. vi. 9, 10. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not in-
herit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornica-
tors, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of
themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunk-
ards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of
God,.
Gen. ii. 17. In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die,..
Eccles. ix. 10. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy
might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor
wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest,..
Ps. ix. 17. The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the na-
tions that forget God,...
Deut. xxxii. 22. For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall
burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her
increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains,....
Mark ix. 43-48. If thy hand offend thee, cut it off; it is bet-
ter for thee to enter into life maimed, than having too hands to
go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched; where
their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. And if
thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt
into life, than having too feet to be cast into hell, into the fire
that never shall be quenched; where their worm dieth not,
and the fire is not quenched. And if thine eye offend thee,
pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of
God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell-
fire; where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quench-
ed,..
Matt. xxiii. 33. How can ye escape the damnation of hell?.. 274
Mark ix. 43-48. And the fire is not quenched-never shall be
quenched, etc.,...
Luke xii. 4, 5. Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after
that, have no more that they can do: but fear him, which after
he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell,..
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