A Series of Letters to a Universalist: In which the Subject of Modern Universalism is Examined; the Arguments by which it is Supported, Refuted, and Its Falsity and Absurdity Clearly Proved by the Dictates of Common Sense, the Light of Sound Philosophy and the Word of God |
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... hearers be- lieved in the doctrine of Universalism . The Sadducees did not believe in any future existence . The Pharisee , as you may learn from Josephus , believed in the resurrection of the dead , and eternal punishment of the wicked ...
... hearers be- lieved in the doctrine of Universalism . The Sadducees did not believe in any future existence . The Pharisee , as you may learn from Josephus , believed in the resurrection of the dead , and eternal punishment of the wicked ...
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... hearers understand them upon this important point . Did their hearers so understand them ? Did the Jews , Greeks , Romans , deny the doctrine of future retribution , and thus render it unnecessa- ry for Christ to give them instruction ...
... hearers understand them upon this important point . Did their hearers so understand them ? Did the Jews , Greeks , Romans , deny the doctrine of future retribution , and thus render it unnecessa- ry for Christ to give them instruction ...
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... hearers still deeper the conviction that God would bring their works and every secret thing into judgment . He spoke to them of " the unquenchable fire ; " the " undying worm ; " the " damnation of hell ; " the " day of judgment , " and ...
... hearers still deeper the conviction that God would bring their works and every secret thing into judgment . He spoke to them of " the unquenchable fire ; " the " undying worm ; " the " damnation of hell ; " the " day of judgment , " and ...
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... hearers to lay up treasures in heaven ? You believe that nothing that we can say or do in this world , will have any in- fluence whatever upon our future condition . How then can one lay up treasures in heaven ? A long life of self ...
... hearers to lay up treasures in heaven ? You believe that nothing that we can say or do in this world , will have any in- fluence whatever upon our future condition . How then can one lay up treasures in heaven ? A long life of self ...
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... hearers to keep under their bodies and practice self - denial , that they might not be cast aways ? Never . Let a Universalist preacher address his hear- ers in this manner and it would be thought at LETTERS TO A UNIVERSALIST . 63.
... hearers to keep under their bodies and practice self - denial , that they might not be cast aways ? Never . Let a Universalist preacher address his hear- ers in this manner and it would be thought at LETTERS TO A UNIVERSALIST . 63.
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Page 118 - But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
Page 113 - For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God : and the dead in Christ shall rise first...
Page 67 - Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead ; to an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
Page 41 - Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat ? Nevertheless we.
Page 70 - But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear ; Fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell ; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Page 107 - Therefore we are always confident, knowing that whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: (for we walk by faith, not by sight :) we are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Page 27 - Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep ; in journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren ; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often,...
Page 62 - Jews ; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; To...
Page 110 - He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Page 97 - The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field. But while men slept, his enemy came, and sowed tares among the wheat; and went his way.