The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-05-20
MIR. NYE TO MIR. WEBSTER,


DER SIR You quote Luke 1871
e6. to prop up your Interpretation o
Matt. 7:l4 22; 8:l2, but without under
taking to show that this text relates either
to spiritual salvaton,or the immortal life
Indeed you ask me to show that it refers
to the "earthly Kingdom." Am l te
prove negative? When once the Son
of man has sentenced "sinners" to end.
less wo, and the door of heaven is shut,
will the wicked stand in the door saying
Open unto US And by what authority
do you make our Savior say thrust oauav,
instead Of thrust oat. in this text? Prove
that the passage relates to spiritual
redemption, or the final destroying Of
men at all. Certainly men may be saved
from temporal woes. Except those days
should be shortened, there should no
flesh be saved" Matt, 24:!e. Your pas
sage plainly refers to a period when the
Jews, the natural branches, would be cut
IF, or thrust out Of the Kingdom, and
The Gentiles, the wild olive branches, be
grated in Then the first, should be last,
and the last should be Jfrst But the
divine testimony is, that ultimately, "all
Isreal shall be saved"
I deny that Mark 1916, afirms that
those who believe in this life shall be
saved in the next, and that for disbelief
in this world men are TO be forever damn
ed in the next; and when you prove that,
you will gain your point.
The term shuH, you say, indicates that
salvation and damnation are all sin the flu
ture." In the future World you mean.
Prove it.
The following verses declare that be-
levers shall speak with new tongues,
aud shall take up deadly serpents and
shall cast out devels, and shat lay hands
on the sick, who shall recover. Does
shall here refer to the future world?
You refer again to the case of Judas
but offer no argument, in the case -
Christ used no proverbs that were not
true. But in what sense WAS the proyerb
employed?
Ii the sense is literal, it is not prover-
bisl.and proverbial it is not literal. DR..
Clarke has shown that the words were
used by the Jews when, any severe tenn
ooraL calamity befel a man, and not with
reference to the mans final salvation.
You overlook the fact that Job and
Jeremiah cursed the day that they were
,orn. Why this ? 1t will need strong
TO convince intelligent minds
hat an infinitely wise and gracious God
las ever created man who literally had
,etter never have been born. You Sian
Ter God, in fixing such construction
lpon this text.
You refer once more to the blasphemy
gainst the Holy Spirit but offer no new
rguments in the case. The printer
aade me speak Of liberal not literal con-
truction of this text, as wrote, repeat,
hen, the text literally construed proves that
very other sin iu the world skull abso-
itely be forgiven, rs plainly as it proves .
nat absolutely this one specified sin shall
OF be. Until you remove that difficult ,
=, repetition of this text cannot help |
our argument at all.
When man is death struck aud can t
OF live we do not say he Is in danger Of q
wing. And if a man is spiritually death a
,ruck or has committed a sin which ab- n
,lutely cannot be forgiven, it cannot a
'ith any propriety be said, that he is in v
anger ofdamnstion. By the supposition
Q is already, actually lost and cannot s
,cape. But the words in danger of i'm a
ly possibility Of escape. And if the t
ossibility exists your arguament is lost. lp