Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-06-03

tHdt hiIiclu WIFI the sworn must De killed )
with the sword" The kingdom of God i
was taken from them, even that favored Il
nation, and given to the Savior's LITTLE t
FLOCK" That Judgment, | hold TO be I
the GREAT EXAMPLE otthe just judgment {
OF God on sin for all generations 10 come, /
| "aoOrld pathout end" even as the less
judgments in former times were by God
made ian .ensampIe unto those that after
should lire ungodly"
In making our researches, the purgatory
of Romanism and the blackness ofdarkness
being ON the one hand, and the alIuring
sound Of Universal Salvation on the other, |
shall we not seek some guide or waymarks
that we may not be deranged IN mind by
the terrOrs of the former. nor deceived by
the .JGattery of the latter?
FIRST then, prov. IL: 5I behold the
righteous shall be recompensed in the
earth, much more the wicked and the sin
ner." This taken 10 the letter full would
+. preclude all judgment beyond the grave
But would ii be polite in the reader to
0 thus receive it, or honest in the writer to
hastily so interpret it-seelng the stron-
Q gest expressions more generally have ex-
s cep'ions. .. ...... I'd. ..
II Note, Acts9 9: 35. "And all that dwelt
y in LYDIA and Saron saw him Ii. e. En-
e cas-, who was healed) and turned unto the
n Lord" Also Mat 8 5, g. ''Then went
5e out to him Jerusalem and all Judea, and
s. all the region round about Jordan and
10 were baptized Of him in Jordan, confess
n ing their sins" But no one supposes
e. that either of these passages are 10 be ia
I'd ken to the letter, and without exceptions
I'D as the reader is aware that many beside:
OF the Pharisees and Lawyers 'rejected The
TO counsel of God against themselves, being
d. not baptized of him." Still such whoelsal,
I'M expressions never mean less than gener
of alLg or for the more part.
se Second In proof of judgment Of re
IRE wards after death both to the righteous {
The wicked the following passages are G
rse ted:-Luke. 10: IL, l4) But | say unit
IN YOU, it shall be more tolerable in that day
an for Sodom ii, e. in the day of judgment
cry than for that city Wo unto thee. Che
pie azin Wo unto thee Bethsaida, for if tt
IN mighty works had been done in Tyre an
ne Sidon, which have been done in yo
ing they had a great while ago repented S
odd ting in sackcloth and ashes. But it shs
'eo- be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon
any the Judgment than for you"
ess' Now. does not every reader belle
'uer Christ ment to be understood that Sodc
we aud Gomorrah should again be broue
re 7a into Judgment, which to them would
ach' after death? And what christian dou
Inc the truth of that which the Savior wol
e'se be thought to say.
i'ii- Fufthermore-said Jesus plainly q
e"s' 5: 28) 1.-The hour is coming in the VIII
'h'S all that are in the graves shall hear
''a'e voice and come forth, they that have d.
''p'e' good unto the resurrection of life,
hing, H., tba. have dooe evil unto the res
u le rection of dlmnation."
'H' In respect to Sodom, Tyre, and Sido
verse Lorod -
of the
y '''e suade the reader that the Savior had
erence 10 their past judgment, notM
~ standing the words are shall be, whic
'""' future; but can such use of words be f
az ~ in the Scriptures as an example for 81
- terpreting these passages And in re
n''''e to the resurrection from The graves.
Il same are bold to argue that they
u am only called dead and buried, becaus
% ',0' deeply involved 10 trespasses and sin
on" 1t is possible that Jesus did so in
o'a but such phraseology is too unnatur
. nun render it probable. But suppose in
= : instance that the Savior did near
graph. morally dead, and even then there
DAY. want Of Scripture evidence OF a Judg
of reward to the wicked after DEATH
u tneir saith LIST Peter, A 6, For this Gauss
citation, :, oIso - ,bono n +.
chains, 'no Sospe' =
of the dead, that they might be judged az
ing 10 men in the flesh but live acco
PROM to God in the spirit"
That tdey might be judged aeeo
!" being TO men III tie flesh" j. e. as If the,