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ultimate salvation of all men, were con-
fined to "this life only we would, as
Paul tells us in the 18th chapter of 1st
Cor, of all men be most miserable :"
but "Christ has arisen from the dead.
and become the first fruits of them that
slept;" " For as by man came death, by
man came also the resurrection of the
dead, and as all die in Adam, so also
shall all he made alive in Christ"
When he shall have put down all rule
and all authority and all power, and
shall have subdued all things unto Him
(Which is to be brought into loving
obedience to Christi not till then will
mans probation end and the kingdom
be delivered up to God the Father, that
he may be all in all.
3 There can be no limited day of
probation for mans recovery from sin
and death, for if there were it would
falsify the scriptures which teach, in
Eph. i. 8, 10, already cited, that God
will yet gather together all souls-all
things-in Christ.
4 The argument of the advocates of
endless damnation that probation is
confined to this life, is not only unsup-
ported by reason and the principles of
common justice, but it is also unscrip-
tural, for Paul teaches us, in Rom. iii
| 4 thot If Ia 10 ~, &c
it does not make the faith of God
(faithfulness of Cod of none effect.
Paul proves conclusively that the
priesthood Of Christ is pledged for the
redemption of all, when he quotes from
the Psalmist and shows that when God
shall have put all things under Christ,
that there will be nothing left that is not
put under him; and further that Jesus
who was made little lower than the
angels for the time being. for the suf-
fering of death, was crowned with glory
and honor that he, by the grace of God,
should taste death for every man, max.
ing the captain of our salvation perfect
through suffering; that this perfection
is to be achieved only in the ultimate
salvation of all.
g. Christ in his priestly Office is the
pledge of the destruction of evil, and
the ultimate deliverance of all men
from its bondage; for Paul says in
Heb. ii. II, that he was manifest to
destroy the works of the devil and to
deliver them who through fear of death
were all their lifetime subject to bond
age. 1t follows, therefore, that if all
who were subject to bondage are to be
delivered, and some die in bondage,
they must be delivered in the life to
come, their hope entering into that
within the veil, whittier Christ, the
fOrerunner, has entered"
Z. Inasmuch as we are taught by
Paul in Heb. vii. 21-26, that the priest
hood of Christ is Interchangeable, and he
is still our high priest, and is able to
deliver US here, he is able also to save
to the uttermost all who come unto
God by him, seeing he ever liveth to
make intercession for them-all of those
who come from the uttermost, ie., any
part of the universe, unto God by him
s. We are taught in Rev. i. 10, Is,
and Xxx. 6, that those who accept Christ
here are to be made kings and priests
unto God, to take part with Christ in
the first resurrection, and to constitute
his bride or helpmeet in the grand mis-
sionary work of saving all men beyond
the end Of terrestrial things. The truth
of this is fully taught in the Goth and
2lst chapters of Revelation, wherein it
is shown that at the contamination or
eschatology of all things, death and hell
are to yield up their dead, and death and
hell to be cast into the lake of fire along
with those whose names are not writ
ten in the Lambs book of Life; and if
this were the last act of the drama,
this " second death " would be a sad
and final tate for the unconverted; but
Immediately subsequent to this con-
signment, in the first seven verses of
the 2lst chapter, we are told that
the "holy city, the New Jerusalem,
shall come down from God out of heav-
en- prepared as bride adorned for her
husband" and the missionary work of
the final and complete reclamation of
all men begins, and continues until all
things are made new, until all pain and
sorrow ceases, and all tears are wiped
from every eye, and the last pang ban
ished from the hearts of suffering hui
mainly. This glorious consummation is
set forth by Paul in Heb. tx. 24-2S,
wherein he tells US that Christ "has not
entered into the place made with hands,
which Is the figure of, the true, but
into heaven itself, that now in the end
of the ages (the completion of all
things, he would appear the second
time without sin Offering" unto the
salvation of all them who look for his
coming to put away sin; and he fur
ther tells us in Heb. vi. 1920, that God
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