The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1846-07-09

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of salvation % he Is; and lie has PrOmis-
"a ihai ihoSs that DO good shall enter into
lie eternal. but hose that DO esil are jnsl
- sure Of il as lhey areI'' fihsre Is no
difference in tie prospects and claims OF
lhe two classes. are not the promises 90
ore class deceillul and without value |!
When God promises everlasting life 90
those who do right. Is il moi insulting for
! man 10 say . shall lire for ever whe-
Their 10 night or not p Is il not deny
ing The sincerity and honesty Of his Ma
ker. Every promise t;od has made 10
any one class, directly excludes al 9th
lers from that. which is included in The
promise. When il is said "a God so low
Cd The world, Ia The gave his only be-
gotten Son, that whatsoever belieyelh in
him should not perish, but have ever
lasting life" consider that il Is distinct
~ taught. and forever settled, that whose
ever believelh not shall perish, and shall
not have everlasting life. Aud so long as
| believe God deals candidly with men.
and means what he says. | must believe =
man cannot enjoy what God has prOmis-
cd the believer, without believing, or what
God has promised the righteous, without
doing right. Every passage Of scripture
describing the class or character that shall
be saved, excludes all others; and Of the
great number Of This kind, each one is more
iorrible against UniyersalisIn than all the
volumes have ever seen in its defence,
arc in is fayOr.
9. Every character excluded from the
kingdom Of God is an incontrovertible evil
dence that Uniyersalism is untrue. Christ
said, Except a man be born again. he
cannot see The kingdom Of God" Now
10 provo Upiyersalism, II must be proved
that all men are, or will be, born again.
But to attempt that would be to charge
Christ with talking nonsense.--of teach
ing in substance that " except that is done
which cannot be avoided, ye cannot be
sayed;" for il q man can avoid being
"born again." he may, and there will be
an exclusion from the kingdom of God,
which will destroy the doctrine Of univer-
sal salvation. In first Corinthians vi. o,
Paul says. "Know We not that the I'M
righteous shall not inherit the kingdom Of
God" then mentions ten characters, no
one Of which "shall inherit tho kingdom
of God" In the fifth chapter of Gala
lians, Paul names seventeen acts Of which
he says, "they which do such things shall
net inherit the kingdom Of Cod" Other
passages OF the same import might be
quoted, but these orc sufficient. Now no
man can prove UniyeTsalism unless he
can take each one Of those characters NAM
cd by Paul and prove his way open into
heaven. Such characters exist, and SO
long as man can be found on earth, in
such condition that it cannot be proved
that he will be saved, so long Universal
ism remains without proof. Can the cha
racters referred to inherit the kingdom Of
God! Paul says they cannot. Univer-
salism says they shall enjoy everlasting
life. II is worthy of remark that die
Apostle does not confine himself to their
present condition, but speaks Of the fu-
| mrc, shall not, &c. So long as his as
sertion remains true, so long such persons
will have no inheritance with the saints.
Then, 10 prove Universalism, a man must
prove that liars, thieves, drunkards, muir
derers, and the whole list of criminals,
will enter the kingdom Of God without
inheriting it, or else prove that they will
enjoy eternal life without entering the
kingdom of God at all. II is surprising
| that any man should profess to believe
the Bible and Universalism at the same
time. But | am not surprised that many
4 who embrace the latter, soon forsake the
former and become confirmed infdels ;
nor that Deists, and Atheists, consider
them good allies in opposing the religion
I of the Gospel.
9. The terms used in reference TO the
punishment of the wicked express the
same duration as those used in reference
to the reward of the righteous, or exist
ence in heaven. Mat. XIV. 46. will be
sufficient on this point: "And these shall
60 away into everlasting punishment: but
the righteous into life eternal" 1t is
sometimes contended that the word ever.
lasting does not mean eternal; but in this
case the same Greek word is used TO
express the duration of the punishment
and the duration of the life, and is trans
lated in the use of two English words
which here must be of the same import,
And | here lcarlessy assert, that no man
can prove from Scripture that life will be
enjoyed by any man longer than | can
prove others will be punished; and | al
so assert that no man can prove state ol
reward or happiness to commence with
any at later period, or in a later world
or subsequent state, to one in which
can prove punishment will be inflicted
+ on others. Again: in all the labor to show
that the terms used in reference to the pu
nishment of the wicked do not imply eter
nal punishment, have never seen any
tcrgns substituted by which the, idea coult
DO more clearly expressed. " Indeed, i
ths doctrine is nor taught in the Gospel