REASONS FOR OUR HOPE: COMPRISING UPWARDS OF A THOUSAND SCRIPTURAL EVIDENCES, DIRECT, ILLUSTRATIVE, AND COLLATERAL, OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE FINAL SALVATION OF ALL THE HUMAN FAMILY: DEMONSTRATING THE BIBLE TO BE A UNIVERSALIST BOOK: THE SELECTIONS BEING CLASSIFIED UNDER A SERIES OF FIFTY DISTINCT "THE COMMON SALVATION. CONSIDERABLY ILLUSTRATED WITH CRITICAL, CONTROVERSIAL, AND PRACTICAL REMARKS ; TOGETHER WITH SCRIPTURAL ANSWERS TO SEVERAL POPULAR OBJECTIONS. BEING ANOTHER TESTIMONY AGAINST THE SACRELIGIOUS THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. BY J. VICTOR WILSON. 'Be ready always to give an Answer to every man that asketh you a REASON 'Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom.'-Col. iii. 16. 'Pray that the word of the Lord may have FREE COURSE, and be glorified.' RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH.'-2 Tim. ii. 15. "Open Thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of Thy Law, BOSTON: PUBLISHED BY THOMAS WHITTEMORE, 37 CORNHILL. 1846. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the Year 1846, BY J. VICTOR WILSON, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. BT 9 INTRODUCTION,-(composed in Scripture language,) 13-26 ARGUMENTS FROM THE DIVINE DISPOSITION. Proposition I. Universal Salvation the DESIRE of God. It is the DESIRE, also, of all good men, of Christ, and of the Angels. This Desire shall be universally realized. Free Agency Objection answered, Prop. II. Universal Salvation is the PURPOSE of God. Divine Will shall prevail. Objection answered, 55-65 Prop. VII. God has issued a COMMAND for Universal Prop. VIII. Universal Salvation the PLEASURE of God. 101-106 |