Delaware Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1843-1874, 1873-08-18

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had come y-Ced sent forth his Son, made of wo
man, made under the law, TO redeem them thai
were under the law, that we might receive the
adoption of sons.'. Now what law was Chris
made under? We answer, the law of death; he
was subject 10 death, consequently he was
mortal Made like unto his brethren; like the
first Adam he was tried and learned obedience
as he kept the law, he had what the first
Adam lost, /. O., a right TO live, but when he
saw that by the suffering of death that many
sons and daughters were TO be brought to glory,
he became obedient unto death, and gave him
self as ransom for all, (his people). And be-
cause he kept the law, and became obedent un.
to death, and 'laid do wn his life for his sheep,
She was declared TO be the Son of God with
power, according to the spirit Of holiness,by the
resurrection from the dead.' Thus 'he became
the first born from the dead, that in all things
ho might have the pre-emiBence.' Now he pos
scsses tan endless life,' and has power to exc
cute Judgment, and give eternal lite 10 all that
the Father hath given him. and because the
Jews rejected him, and would not have him to
| reign over them, his Father took him up and
| sat him at his own right hand,' until he made
his foes his footstool,' and as the first Adam
had the earth, and lost it, Christ the second
Adam is Gods appointed 'her of all things,
! and before he went up he told his people that
the meek should inherit the earth, and his dis
clples that they should sit on twelve thrones,
Judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
ale knew that his disciples would suffer and
many of them be put to death,but he told them,
because live ye shall live also." ~ am the
resurrection and the life 81 will raise them up
at the last day" They sleep, in Jesus, they
await the voice of the Archangel and the trumlt
Of God, when the dead in Christ shall rise first,
then the living that remain faithful at his COM
| ing, rise with them to meet the Lord In the
| air." These are the apostolic words of COM
fort, they never, talked about immortal souls,
going to heaven at death, not endless misery,
nor death that never never dies. They taught
that the wages of sin is death, a death which
| left Christ in the grave, in Hades, the state of
the dead only three days and three nights, not
to suffer eternal torment but to "taste death for
every man." And Christ will never give eter-
| nal life to any but his own, and for man
| to plead for eternal life in sin and wlckedness
and torment for sinners, is In these days to dis
play an amount Of ignorance amounting to
culpa6ility, and yet because men reject pagan
| tabled immortal soul ghost, in a pagan fabled
he'll, and affirm that out of Christ there is no
life or Immortality, in the future they must be
branded as inhdels Of the darkest hue, with
some this may be excusable, it may have been
their misfortune to have been raised in local
ity unfav0rable TO growth and progress, and
they are only to be pitied, and we would only
superstitious,n and "the times Of this gnor-
ance God winked at, but now he commandeth
all men everywhere 10 repent" Now show us
please, how your theory of Gods law condemn
ing sinners to endless torment, and Christ eI-
during the full penalty Of the law, can be made
to commend itself to every mau's conscience in
the sight of God" How can you do it without
disturbing the harmony Of the divine attributes
and seriously endangering the destruction of
the God-head. Come now let us "study to
show ourselves workmen that needeth not to be
ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth"
let us hold fast the form of sound words, and
give no heed to fables. Now, sir, we have shown
that Gods law condemns man to death, with
This penalty all his attributes harmonize. We
have shown also that Jesus was made under
this law, and tasted its penalty in full for every
man, and not the slightest discord or confusion
can be detected, but perfect harmony prevails.
Allow us to suggest, that the doctrine of hell
torment, hangs upon the doctrine of the inher-
ent immortality of the soul. But that doctrine
is not true, hence the torment theory is false
also, and our beloved brother Paul comes up
with his ponderous weight of testimony that
the "wages OF sin is death but the gift of God is
eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord
Snow it would be hardly worth our while to
raise controversy with this "wise master build
err" for he said nothing about hell, or endless
torment, he never indulged in flights of poetic
ings tortured in an imaginary hell" Hence 1t
is evident, thai those who do indulge in such
descriptions ofhorror have not learned to do so
from the sacred writers. And God says, Jer.
AAllI, 80. 81 am against the prophets that
steal my words every one from his neghbor,"
and in verse 21 and '22 81 have not sent these
prophets, yet they ran, l have not spoken to
them, yet they prophesied.' But if they had
STOOD in my counsel, and had caused my people
to hear my words, then they should have turn
ed them from their evil ways, and from the evil
of their doings. "Again chap. V. 80. 81, ga
wonderful and horrible thing Is committed In
the land, the prophets prophesy falsely, and the
priests bear rule by their means, and my people
love TO have it so, and what will ye do in the
end thereof?" And in Isaiah LVI. 10, II, we
read, "His watchmen are blind, they are all ig-
norant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot
bark, sleeping lying down, loving to slumber;
yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have
enough, and they are shepherds that can not
understand; they all look to their own way
every one for his gain, from his quarter" What
graphic piccture of apostate watchmen, and
how truthfully history repeats itself. Can it be
SO under the Christian dispensation? Let us
see, Jesus says. s'Howbet in vain do they
worship me, teaching for doctrines the COM
mandments of men," And Paul says, Snow
the spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter
times some shall depart from the faith, giving
heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines OF devils,
&c." Now what are seducing spirits, and doc
trines Of devils?" Did not seducing spirit
attempt to make God liar, by persuading our
first parents that they should not surely die? And
is not this the doctrine Of devils? Most GER
tainly it is. Then when we find men teaching
the same doctrine, awe shall not surely die,
but live forever in eternal torment, two facts
are as clear as the shining sun. First
the spirit uttered the truth, and we live in the
times Of its fullflment. Secondly, we may
know the men, who have thus departed from
the faith, and are giving heed to seducing spir-
It's and doctrines of devils, and strange to say,
the people love TO have it So" Is there such a
thing as "hoding the truth in unrghteousness2"
Can men "turn the truth Of God into a lie ?"-
Is there danger Of mems being "bewitched, that
they should not obey the truth? ?" rScripture
answers these questions in the Affirmative
Then 1t follows scripturally and logically, that
those men who teach that wicked men shall not
surely die, but suffer endless torment, have
never been sent by God, but ran of their own
accord, and ore "teaching for doctrine, tke COM
mandments of men," hence, when they are
| kindly Invited TO compare their theories with
the word of God in Christian discu sion, they
depreciate controversy. Paul might dispute
daily, in the school of one Tyranus, sand with
stand Peter to the face" but then Paul said by
the Spirit that some should depart from the
| faith, giving heed to seduciug spirits and doc
trines OF devils, "and it is so. Eternal tor
ment then, Is not of Bible origin. No sir, 30 r
God Is consuming" not q preserving fire.
"The enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of
| lambs, into smoke shall they consume away"
"For the day cometh that shall burn as an
oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do
wickedly shall be stubble, and the day that
eometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of
hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor
branch" This looks like clean work does it
nots Did the father tell Christ, that his ene-
mics should be his tootstool? LISTEN, "and We
shall tread down the wicked for they shall be