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be eternally overcome to a dreadfully vast extent, by any Deific Spirit of Evil, and a mighty empire of everlasting sin and sufferings? No. He is 'Greater than All.' He can overcome all evil with His Goodness, which is infinite and associated with Omnipotence, while evil is finite and subordinate.

'If a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual Restore such an one in the spirit of meekness.'-Gal. vi. 1. And yet there are those who believe that the Creator and Parent of men, who is able to save to the uttermost, is of so contrary a spirit to that of this injunction, that instead of mercifully Restoring to holiness, those who become entangled in the meshes of this world,―involves them in the torments of a region of inextricable iniquity and despair.

'Bless, and curse not.'-Rom. xii. 14. Such a precept could never have been given by inspiration of God, if it were His purpose to abandon and curse with endless woes myriads of His sinful creatures. Our God is not a God of

Damnation, but of Salvation.

'If ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.'—James. ii. 9. There is not an evidence in all the world, nor in all the Scriptures that the Lord is so Partial a Being as He is represented by the Calvistic dogma of Election and Reprobation, and the Armininian one of Particular Regeneration.

'Recompense to no man evil for evil.'-Rom. xii. 17. And yet, will Jehovah expiate the evils of time by their endless perpetuity, and almost infinite aggrandizement?

'Let not Mercy and Truth forsake thee; bind them upon the tablet of thine heart.'-Prov. iii. 3. If the Mercy and Faithfulness of God are impartial and unchangeable, He can never forsake the works of His own hands.

'Avenge not yourselves.'-Rom. xii. 19. God is not a man, that He should require the ignoble species of 'satisfaction,' for human disobedience, which is even unseemly in the earthly monarch, and which is more fitting for the capricious tyrant or pugnacious bully!

'Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thy heart be glad when he stumbleth.'-Prov. xxiv. 17. This

passage for one might convince us that God never could be reconciled to the endless, permanent establishment of evil and suffering; and that the eloquent descriptions which Dr. Edwards and various other divines have given, of the great exaltation of the bliss of the saints in heaven, and of the glory of God, at the magnificent woes of the damned, are wildly imaginative and impious.

'Say not, I will do so unto him as he hath done to me.”— Prov. xxiv. 29. 'Grievous words stir up anger,' so does grievous, savage revenge, not turn away wrath and enmity, but only aggravates the malice, and widens the breach of separation. Surely, the disposition of the Father towards His creatures is infinitely different from that which says,'I will do so to him as he hath done to me.'

In like manner, we may take the following passages as inferential proofs of the impartial love, and unceasing universal goodness of God: 'Be patient [forbearing,] towards All Men.'-1 Thess. v. 14. Be gentle unto All Men.'2 Tim. ii. 14. 'The Lord make you increase and abound in love toward one another, and toward All Men.'-1 Thess. iii. 12. 'Honor All Men. Love the Brotherhood.'-1 Pet. ii. 17.

"God loves from whole to parts, but human soul,
Must rise from individual to the whole.
Self-love first serves the virtuous mind to wake,
As the small pebble stirs the peaceful lake,—
The centre mov'd a circle straight succeeds,
Another still, and still another speeds:
Friend, parent, neighbor, first it will embrace,
His country next, and next all human race.
Wide and more wide th' o'erflowings of the mind,
Till it all creatures bounds, of every kind;
Earth smiles around with boundless beauty blest,
And heav'n beholds its image in his breast.

Learn, from the union of the rising whole,
The first, last purpose of the human soul;
And know where faith, law, morals all began,-
All end in love of God, and love of man."-POPE.

PROPOSITION FIFTIETH.

We have seen that the Scriptures indirectly repudiate the idea of the Eternal Sinfulness and Misery of Millions of the Human Family, in a thousand different ways; We show also that the Scriptures contain language that LITERALLY CONTRADICTS that Sentiment, the Purport of which must be exactly reversed to agree with it.

CORROBORATION.

'Will the Lord Cast off Forever? Will He be favorable no more? Is His Mercy utterly gone forever? Doth His Promise fail forevermore? Hath God forgotten to be Gracious? or hath He in anger shut up His tender mercies ?'Ps. lxvii. 7, 8.

'Wilt Thou be angry with us Forever? Wilt Thou draw out Thine anger to All Generations? Wilt Thou not Revive us again, that Thy People may Rejoice in Thee?'Ps. lxxxv. 4--7.

"Will He reserve [prolong] anger forever?'-Jer. iii. 5. 'Wilt not Thou, O God, who hast cast us off,-wilt not Thou give us help from trouble?'-Ps. cviii. 11.

'What hath the Lord answered? What hath the Lord spoken?'-Jer. xxiii. 35.

'The Lord will not Cast off forever! But though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His tender mercies; for He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.'-Lam. iii. 31--33. 'I am Merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep Anforever.'-Jer. iii. 12.

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"The Lord is Merciful and Gracious, slow to Anger, and Plenteous in Mercy. He will not always chide, neither 'My Spirit

will He keep Anger forever.'-Ps. ciii. 8, 9.

shall not always strive with man.'-Gen. vi. 3.

'I will not Contend forever, neither will I be always Wroth for the spirit should fail before Me, and the souls which I have made.'-Isa. lvii. 16.

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'His Anger endureth but a moment; in His favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.'-Ps. xxx. 5.

'Who is a God like unto Thee, that Pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of His heritage? He retaineth not His Anger forever, because He delighteth in Mercy.'-Micah vii. 18.

The Lord will not Cast off His People, neither will He Forsake His inheritance.'-Ps. xciv. 14.

Thus saith the Lord, If heaven above can be measured, and the foundation of the earth searched out beneath, then will I Cast Off the seed of Israel for all the evil they have done, saith the Lord.'-Jer. xxxi. 37.

'His Mercy endureth Forever.' This sentence occurs in our Scriptures no less than Forty-Two times. It is as pal pable a contradiction of the doctrine of Endless Wrath, and Salvation only in this World, as human language can express in the same compass.

"O, would mankind but make fair Truth their guide,
And force the helm from prejudice and pride;

Were once these maxims fix'd,-GOD IS OUR FRIEND,
VIRTUE OUR GOOD, and HAPPINESS OUR END,-
How soon would reason o'er the world prevail,
And error, fraud, and superstition fail!

None would hereafter then, with groundless fear,
Describe th' Almighty cruel and severe,
Predestinating some without pretence

To heaven, the rest to hell, without offence;
Inflicting endless pains for transient crimes,
And fav'ring sects or nations, men, or times;
Or deem it merit to believe or teach

What reason contradicts or must impeach;

Or think Salvation for one class design'd,

AND HEAVEN TOO NARROW TO CONTAIN MANKIND!

No more would brutal rage disturb our peace,

But envy, hatred, war and discord cease;
Our own and others' good each hour employ,
And all things smile with universal joy:
Fair Virtue then with pure Religion join'd,
Would regulate and bless the human mind,
And Man be, what his Maker hath design'd."

Soame Jenyns,--quoted by Zimmerman.

THE UNIVERSALIST CREED.

Written by St. Paul, the Apostle, a Minister of the Gospel of the Reconciliation of All Things. (Eph. iv. 4--6.)

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(Art. I.) There is ONE BODY,'-[The BODY of Christ, who is 'the HEAD of Every Man,' 'the Heir of ALL THINGS,'-Mankind is this Body, of whom Jesus is the HEAD. Read Eph. iv. 12, 13, 15, 16; i. 22, 23; ii. 16; iii. 6; v. 23; Col. i. 17--19, 24; ii. 17, 19; 1 Cor. xiith; x. 17; Rom. viii. 23; xii. 5. Isa. xxvi. 9.]

(Art. II.) And ONE SPIRIT,'-[The Holy Spirit of Grace which shall redeem and sanctify All Men. See Jas. ii. 26; Rom. iii. 23, 24; iv. 16; v. 18-21; Eph. ii. 7; Tit. ii. 11; Heb. ii. 9, &c.] (Art. III.) 'Even as there is but ONE HOPE in our Calling-[The blessed Hope' of the Resurrection of All Men, even of 'the unjust,' to 'glory,' 'power,' 'spirituality,' and 'Christ,' in the image of the heavenly,' and 'equal to the angels.'--Acts xxiv. 15; Rom. viii. 20; 1 Cor. xv; Col. i. 23; Phil. iii. 21, &c. &c.

(Art. IV.) ONE LORD,'-[Jesus Christ, the Owner and Saviour of All: Rom xiv. 9, and 20 parallels;

1 Tim. ii. 6, 2 Cor. v. 19, and 50 parallels. (Art. V.) ONE FAITH,'-[The glorious Faith of Abraham for the ultimate blessedness of 'All Kin

dreds.' Acts iii. 21--26; Gal. iii. S, 28, 29; Rom. iv. 13, &c. &c.]

(Art. VI.) And ONE BAPTISM,'-[A universal baptism with the 'Spirit of Judgment, and the Spirit of Burning,'-the Holy Spirit of Regeneration.Mark ix. 39; Mat. iii. 11; Luke iii. 16; Heb. xii. 29; 1 Cor. iii. 15; John xii. 31, 32, etc.

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