This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...to assert, we fear not to answer, that it must be so; that we cannot, and dare not, close our eyes to limitations, which the very terms of these august revelations distinctly presuppose, and which the whole analogy of Scripture forbids us to deny. If, on the one hand, restitution is in Christ, and in Him alone ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...to assert, we fear not to answer, that it must be so; that we cannot, and dare not, close our eyes to limitations, which the very terms of these august revelations distinctly presuppose, and which the whole analogy of Scripture forbids us to deny. If, on the one hand, restitution is in Christ, and in Him alone;--if, on the other hand, there be such a state as the second death, and one sin at least, for which there is to be no remission, --then to assert that apostate angels in the abyss, and the seed of the serpent among men shall share in the blessings of the restitution, is practically to make a mock at the express declarations of the word of God. In plain terms, is it not to avow a belief that what by its own ever increasing wilfulness and desperation has passed out of the sphere of attracting love, shall, by a violence that a wise father of the Church has declared is hateful to God,1 be compelled to return to it, --that the cursed, whom the Lord shall have bidden to depart from Him into the realms of His wrath,2 shall be yet summoned back to the arms of His love, --that the worm that dieth not shall die, --and that forgiveness shall be meted out to that for which it has been solemnly declared there shall be no forgiveness, neither in this world nor in the world to come. From such denials of what is written may God deliver us. This much, however, we may dare to say, but no more than this, --that all, that from its union with the Saviour is saveable, shall be saved; all, that from being one with the Eestorer is capable of restoration, shall be restored; yea, all that distinctly evinces the continued and preponderating action of the true central force, shall be gathered up into the ever blessed centre of Life and Love, To say more than this, is to
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