The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1864-07-22
MIR WEBSTER TO MR.. NyE,
LETTER vII.

MIR WEBSTER TO MR.. NYE,
T. LETTER vII.
DEAR SIR:--I agree with you, that I'll,
Bible does not contradict ITSELF And a
it declares that all mon shall be fnelly
holy" my negative texts can be readi,
hsrmonized with that declaration. Bu
he difficulty You have experienced, and
:, Of which you complain to say nothing o
hose You have found convenient to pass
IN utter silence; sufficiently attest lhei'
,aeumps''biity with your system, ,.t
Your "eight" proof.texls adduced in
your last have, in the passing review
given them--which l deemed fully pro
portioned to their merit as witnesses in
th" case, been found utterly inadequate;
and if the intel iSent of my church.would
criticize such areply, what will be though
by the intelligent ones Of your persuasion
of al the negative texts, as well as the
very pertinent objection brought forward
in my Inst. | apprehend tha the very
"creed bound" of your communion will
regard it AS altogether unworthy Of their
poIemica' champion .m.
In reply to my statement in reference
to universal expressions, you say,
"words are to dc understood in their pri
mary sense, where the connection ami
sense, do not impose Imitation" Very
well ; and agreeable TO your View Of q re
spondents duty, have submitted spec-
fic "leasons" In my criticisms and mega
tive arguments, to show that the geteral
sta ements upon which you eudeavour to
wholesale tho race to heven, ARE subject to
gospel limitation. You have neverthe.
less, once more paraded them in debate,
and submitted rehash Of your already
trite arguments. much to the annoyance
| have no doubt. Of your reades, and the
modification Of your friends. Not new
argument ip your last.
A buren waste,
A dearth intolerable, -
We have the seventh edition slightly
revised, but not improved of your argu-
ment from Rom. 5:lo. Your whole ar
gument is based upon the assumption
that many means all, with CLARKE,
BARNES and MAoKNIeIir, as authority
But. !. 1t is certain that many does not
always! nor generally mean all, and that
it does in this text, remains to be proven
"by the Scriptures" not human lestmo-
ny. 2. 1t is very probabls it does not
mean all in the expression many shall be
made righteous" for had it meant all IN
both places the term pantes would doubt.
less have been used. but as the Apostle
was treating the subject antthetically. he
would use a term that could comprehend
al! in the FIRST insmoce, and yet not im
,y al in the last. nor is it unique that
the sa,no term Should Be used in different
senses III the same passage. "Let the
dea. bury the dead" is an instance g.
oioutt II b. allowed to mean all, rs is
it would not prove your propo.
sition for the whole human family mi hit
be made righteous in legal sense
Or brought into a justified state through
The merit Of Christ, which we claim is
The case with the infantile world, and yet /
it might be followed by actual sin, and
CONSEQUENT misery SO that the "ulti-
mate" condition would not Be "holness
md Happiness !" nor would it establish
your proposition in the estimation of
hose emminent diyines referred to, tor
neither of them believes this passage
caches Iniversalsm.
AS you seem to rely upon the passage
50 implicitly aud as l would be willing to
rest the issue upon the real meaning oil
his one text, if need be, | will offer the
1. 1t must be allowed that
.he Apostle in the text and context, is