Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1840-08-19
Justly said, They hated me without g

trouble than came on the old world, on
Sodom and Gomorrah, or than was threat
ened to Nineveh, would speedily and
without remedy burst upon their heads,
ought not Christ and the apostles to make
salvation their theme whilst the dav Of
grace lasted, it being forty years? And
to those who were selfwiled, desp:sed
government and hated reproof, ought not
the servants of God to exhibit 10 their
view whether they would hear, or wheth-
er they would forbear,' the indignation
and wrath, trbulation and anguish. that
would come on every soul of man who
should do evil ITO the Jews first Tor es-
lpecially( and also the Gentle, who, liv
ing under the same light, took part in the
wide spreading iniquity.'
| Whilst the day Of grace lasted as
said Jesus Cno 9: ~ Il must work the
works of him that sent me while it is dav.
for the night cometh when no man can
work. having reference TO the time when
the long suffering of God toward Israel
would end-the sun go down, and their
charter expire-the reckoning day ensue,
and wrath overtake them.
The reply of Peter to the scoffers e
Peter 3: o coming into our aid, The
Lord is not slack concerning his promise, ,
lie. his promise to avenge his own elect
send forth his armies and destroy the MUIR
derers and burn up their city, yea, give
to every man as his work shall be) but
is long suffering to us-ward e. e. tow
ard the jews not willing that any should
perish but that all should come to repent
ance.'
Furthermore, | would ask the reader,
and every theologian who may hear, Is
the word perish or either of its deriva-
tives, persisted and perishimg, IN scripture
ever applied, or if the meaning is any
where extended to the spirits or souls OF
men beyond the grave save Cor. Is:
10? This was said on condition ofthat's
being true which existed only in unbe,
lief, having no reality, viz that there was
no resurrection of the dead, neither angel
nor spirit, and the Savior not raised
When Christ aoas risen from the dead
and had become the first fruits of them
that slept so the word perish has nc
, meaning applicable to the souls of men
; For the scriptures, when describing the
, punishment of the wicked after death, EN-
/ poy other words, words of legitimate or
e igin, and not the mere popular origin o
: the aoise and prudent In the passage
y then they aohich are fallen asleep IN Chris
: are persisted were it truth, i. e. a reality
: and motsupposed only, persisted would nc
- imply punished after death, for this wa
= said of the righteous. And farlher,-t
" perish, applied TO the soul beyond tn
h grave, would be to come to nothing
re agreeable to Webster's fifth definition
N the same, with Butterworth, to be d
n priced Of being.
To perish, being simply to die an vi
natural, premature or violen: death,
equally applicable to the servants of G'
6. and to Christ even, as Lu. l3 33) Ne
erlheless must walk to-day and tome
tv row and the day following, for it cabr
IS be that prophet perish out Of Jerusaler
~ Also, Uni. T: 2).' The good man is p
e. ;shed out of the EARTH And (Eccl. Z:
ir. There is just man that perisheth in
eh righteousness So again, (Lu. Il:
ID. before quoted) From the blood OF A
Of unto the blood of Zacharias which PERI
he ed between the altar and the temple.
ex- Lastly 1t has probably been obscr'
hat in two of the texts cited at length in
oil present No. of last week that 10 peras'
10 contras,ed with eternal life, namely =
md 3: LAY that as Moses lifted up the
non nent in the wilderness, even SO must
50 Son of Man be lifted up that whosoe
belieceth IN him shall not perish but
Of eternal life Also ITO: 27l My 81
ub-. hear nv voice and l know Them and
yer follow me and | give unto them etc
lent life, and they shall never perish Al
is 10 may also be asked, Is not heore" the
not mort If eternal life in these passage: