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whether we be bond or free,' &c.—1 Cor. xii. 12, to fin. cap. 'There is neither Greek nor Jew, Circumcision nor Uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, Bond or Free, BUT CHRIST IS ALL, AND IN ALL.'—Col. iii. 11.

'He that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in You, which Ye have of God, AND YE ARE NOT YOUR OWN? For Ye are Bought with a Price.'1 Cor. vi. 19, 20.

'I will say to them which were not My People, Thou ART My People. Hos. ii. 23, et mult. aliis.

"Father, is not Thy Promise sure

To thy exalted Son,

That through All Nations of the Earth
Thy word of Life shall run?
Are not the souls of all mankind,
Beneath the arch of heav'n,
To the dominion of Thy Son
Without exception giv'n?"

COMPLETION OF THE ARGUMENT.

Do the Scriptures countenance the dreadful Idea, that an almost infinite number of the Souls which have been given to Christ shall ultimately be wrested from him, and become the eternal Property of the Savage King of Hell and Misery?

ANSWER.

'I am persuaded, [said Paul,] that he is able to KEEP that which is committed to him.'-2 Tim. i. 12.

'I give unto them eternal life. They shall never perish, neither shall any pluck them out of my hands.'-John x. 28.

My Father which gave them me is Greater than All; and None is able to pluck out of my Father's hands.'-John x. 29. Is it not folly to suppose that God, who is the Creator, and consequently the Owner, of all the universe, can ever LOSE anything? or to believe that He, beside Whom there is no God else, is not the Sovereign Possessor of millions of His created intelligences, who have been snatched

from His power and paternal care by the King Monster of Iniquity and Woe, and never can be reclaimed?

'He shall LOSE NOTHING of ALL, which the Father hath given him.'-John vi. 39.

He shall give eternal life to the 'All Flesh' which the Father hath given him.-John xvii. 2.

'ALL, that the Father giveth me, SHALL COME TO ME.'-John vi. 37.

'I will draw ALL MEN unto me.'-John xii. 32.

"Praise him whose reign of truth and grace

Shall evermore increase,

Till every soul of all the race,

Shall own him Prince of Peace.

When finish'd is his plan of Love,
All sin and ill shall cease.

And every tongue, in heav'n above,
Shall own him Prince of Peace."

PROPOSITION TWELFTH.

In view of the Eventual Sanctification of All Mankind, the Gospel regards the common DISTINCTIONS between Man and Man, to be ABOLISHED.

PROOFS.

THE COMMON SALVATION.'-Jude 3. In the same verse the author of this epistle calls this doctrine, 'The Faith which was once delivered to the Saints.'

"Ye who were sometimes FAR OFF are MADE NIGH by the blood of Christ; for he is our PEACE, [the Mediator of Universal Reconciliation,] who hath broken down the middle. wall of partition between us.'-Eph. ii. 13, 14.

'God hath showed me THAT I SHOULD NOT CALL ANY MAN COMMON OR UNCLEAN.'-Acts x. 28.

"Who maketh thee to differ from Another? and what hast thou that thou did'st not also receive? and if thou did'st RECEIVE it, why dost thou glory as if thou had'st NOT Received it?'-1 Cor. iv. 7.

'God hath made of ONE BLOOD all nations that dwell on

all the face of the earth,'-and all are His offspring,-Acts xvii. 26, 29.

"The Scripture hath concluded ALL under Sin.'-Gal. iii. 22. God hath concluded ALL in Unbelief.'-Rom. xi. 32. 'Behold, ALL THINGS are clean unto you.'-Luke xi. 41. Every Creature of God is good.'-1 Tim. iv. 4. Let it be noticed that these passages are all radically at variance with the doctrine of total depravity.

'And Peter saw Heaven opened, and a vessel descending unto him like unto a great sheet, knit together at the four corners, and let down to the earth; whereon were All Man'ner of four-footed Beasts of the earth, and wild-fowls, and creeping things, and fowls of the air, [clean and unclean beasts 'OF THE EARTH' observe,-yea, ‘ALL MANNER' of them, -representing all kinds of sinners, all forms and degrees of unbelief,—and mark, these were let down FROM HEAVEN.] And there came a Voice to him,—Rise, Peter, kill and eat. But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean. And the Voice spake unto him again the second time,-WHAT GOD HATH CLEANSED, THAT CALL NOT THOU COMMON. This was done three times. AND ALL WERE DRAWN UP AGAIN INTO HEAVEN.'-Acts xi. 7--10.

'There is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free, male nor female, but are All ONE in Christ Jesus..'-Gal. iii; Col. iii.

'Having abolished in his flesh THE ENMITY [the grounds of the jealousy and selfishness which have obtained in the world, teaching free grace and a common destiny for all nations and kindreds, as well as their common beginning and common heavenly care,] even the law of commandments and ordinances, [which recognised such human distinctions, and God a Respector of Persons and Nations,] for to make IN HIMSELF, OF TWAIN, ONE NEW MAN, [of which Christ himself is the Head,] so making Peace; and that he might Reconcile both [Jews and Heathen, i. e. in the scriptural sense, Believers and Unbelievers, the Righteous and the Unrighteous, these two grand divisions of mankind,] unto God in ONE BODY, by the cross, having slain the enmity there

by, and came and preached [alike] to them which were afar off, and to them which were nigh. For through him we have both access by one Spirit, unto the same Father. Now, therefore, Ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but FELLOW-CITIZENS with the Saints of the Household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief Corner-Stone; in whom All the Building, fitly framed together, ['Every Man in his own order,'] groweth unto an Holy Temple in the Lord.'-Eph. ii. 12--22.

'There are Many Members, yet but ONE BODY; and the Eye cannot say unto the Hand, I have no need of thee;' nor again the Head to the Feet, I have no need of thee.' Nay, MUCH MORE, those Members of THE BODY which we think to be least honorable, upon them are bestowed MORE ABUNDANT honor; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness. For our comely Parts have NO NEED, ['they which be whole need not a Physician, but they which are sick.'] But God hath tempered THE BODY together, ['He hath given every one a body as it pleaseth Him,'] having given MORE ABUNDANT HONOR TO THAT PART WHICH LACKED.'-1 Cor. xii. 20--24.

'These which say, Stand by thyself, come not near me, for I am holier than thou, are a smoke in My nose, a fire that burneth all the day, saith the Lord.'—Isa. lxv. 5.

"As flame ascends,

As bodies to their proper centre move,-
As the pois'd ocean to th' attractive moon
Obedient swells, and every winding streamn
Devolves its searching waters to the main ;
So, All things which have life, aspire to God,—
THE SUN OF BEING, boundless, unimpair'd,
Centre of All Souls! Nor does the voice
Of faithful Nature cease to prompt their steps
Aright; nor is the care of Heav'n withheld,
From granting to the task proportion'd means;
That, in their stations, All may persevere
To climb th' ascent of being, and approach,
Forever nearer to the Life Divine."-AKENSIDE.

PROPOSITION THIRTEENTH.

The Human Family is not divisible into two Great Classes, The Righteous, and the Wicked, for ALL MEN ARE SINNERS, so that if Salvation and Damnation are of Works, one or the other will be Universal,—we prove the Former.

PROOFS.

'There is NO MAN that sinneth not.'-1 Kings vii. 46. 'Both Jews and Gentiles, [the whole race,] they are ALL under Sin; as it is written, There is NONE righteous, no, NOT ONE.—Rom. iii. 11.

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Whatsoever the Law saith, it saith to them who are under the Law; that Every Mouth may be stopped, and ALL THE WORLD may become Guilty before God.'-Rom. iii. 15.

'There is NONE good, but One, that is God.'—Mat. xix. 17; Mark x. 18; Luke xviii. 19.

'In Thy sight shall NO MAN LIVING be justified.'Ps. cxliii. 2.

'If we say we have No Sin, we deceive ourselves, and are not in the truth.'-1 John i. 8.

'We are ALL as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. And we ALL do fade as a leaf, and Our iniquities like the wind have taken Us away.'Isa. lxiv. 6.

'There is NONE that doeth [entirely] good. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the Children of Men, to see if there were ANY that did understand and seek God.--They are ALL gone aside, they are ALL TOGETHER become filthy. There is NONE that doeth good, No, NOT ONE!-Ps. xiv. 1--3.

'ALL have Sinned, and come short of the Glory of God.' -Rom. iii. 22. But were they to be eternally continued in unrighteousness and suffering, or a Part of them, would they thus COME UP to the Glory of God?

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