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

with the wheat and tares," The fishes
of every kind,' and the "sheep and the
goats" & speak as to wise men Judge
ye what say" n. MERIAm.
For The Telegraph.
JUDGMENT. as USED IN THE SCRIP.
TUREs.
Mr. Editor:-lt is with a great degree of
difidence that present the following for
your excellent paper. This difhdence aris-
es in part from my limited experience in the
love and study of the doctrines of the gos-
pei, and still less experience in writing for
the public eye. OF course, am not very
much acquainted in the controversial field.
indeed enter il at this time more for the
sake of receiving light, than with the ex-
pectation of rejecting it. have been bro't
here, at this lime, by the sentiments main
tanned and presented before the public, in
your paper, by Mr.. ~ Merriam. am
pleased 10 see these subjects brought before
the Christian community, and trust that
good may be done by their discussion. The
excellent spirit in which those articles APP
lpear, is worthy OF notice and imitsiion by
all controversialists. But 10 proceed: I
notice, in the first place, No. Of April Is,
and remark -
l. That it will not probably be doubted,
that judgment in the scriptures not unfre-
quentlY signifies that principle BY which
men are approved or condemned, according
to their characters. If this is the idea, in
substance, conveyed, or intended TO be con-
I veyed, by N. M. in his first paragraph, then,
] SO far, we shall not greatly differ. / should
!. infer from the same, that he views The
q christian world greatly in the dark in rela-
!, ton TO the nature and ertent of 'iudg-
ment,' as considered in reference TO the
ioicked. And as it is true that there is va
: riety of opinions on this point, The truth as
," it respects this doctrine, (for consider il
doctrine) cannot be unimportant.
IN Mr.. N. NJ. is pleased to start his main
rs work with the great commission Of the
il Lord Jesus, or command as he terms il, viz:
Go We into all the world aud preach the
# gospel 10 every creature : and considering
: conveyed in the paragraph alluded 10, he
y might have added, with great propriety and
~ consistency, the connecting and attending
no circumstances Of acceptation and disregard
10 contained in the text of which be quoted a
or part, viz: land he that beievelh and is bap-
ra- tized shall be saved, and be that believelh
n not shall be damned There certainly is
"a, not clearer Development of the meaning
: of the term Judgment as we are now con-
sidering it, in the whole volume of Inspira.
lion.
i0' Again: That the judgment of the child
g. rem of Israel, .borne by the priests, was q
AID judgment of intercession, see DO reason Il
cry doubt.
uit, The 9Th proposition of N. NJ. is ques
- ton, viz: But were the Levites offered
uth, therein IMPLYING The Savior who was ono
the offered? There is vast difference be
,n,s tween the offering of the Levles and III
.;st offering of Christ, in point of circumstanc
= and effect, as well as in point Of facts
much SO as almost, if not quite, to cut @
." the possibility of analogy. The Levits
Gay were offered in service not in sacrifice
all That they may execute the Service of Il
hall Lord But the offering of Christ W;
shall wholly a sacrifice. 'Christ our passover
osts, sacrificed for u.s. The analogy seen
nor mainly if not wholly TO concern the prie.
the hood, as such, both of the law and of d
- gospel
But further, TO show how little come
ao' ton the sacrifice Of Christ has with {
Ut " priesthood Of the law, except as the 81
MS stance of The types, we need only refer
his Heb. u. Is, IA: For he Of whom ih,
gar things are spoken pertaineih TO anotl
with tribe, Of which uibel no man gave atel
ahce at the altar. For il is evident that
Ans Lord sprang out OF Judah, Of which II
I has Moses spake nothing concerning the pri,
eosn. hood My opinion is, therefore, that
word mem in Hebrews 9: 81, does not
fer TO those who were offered for ser
merely, but to the priests as such.
priests bore the sins Of the people OF Il
ieiiieS ell before the Lord as iniercessors, W.T.
Vheai; was then the judgment Of intercessiou
aham, The Lord Jesus bore the sins Of men
Christ fore the Lord in his own body on the II
nm or And here, and had almost said here ak
taught we ind an analogy w.'on WIZ Os@'
isu0'n &c. CARPENTER
repre- Baldwinville, May 81, 1910.
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