lieves that God "will by no means clear the guilty," however penitent and believing, but will inflict upon every sinner as much punishment, as his iniquities deserve? For a man of such a creed, to exhibit the Atonement of Christ as a ground for believing in the salvation of all, or even one, of our race, is worse than trifling; it is solemn mockery. Reason 39. With one breath, he advocates the principles of Deism; with the next, he pretends to Christianity.

REASON LXXXI.

Isa. xxxv. 10: "The ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs," &c.-The ransomed! how many are they? The verse does not inform us; on this question, it is silent. “The unclean," however, who "shall not pass over" the "highway," established for God's people, are not numbered with "the ransomed of the Lord;" ver. 8. "No" such person "hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." Eph. v. 5.

REASON LXXXII.

Mal. xxviii. 19. "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth."-Rea. 42. The power of Christ, like all his attributes, is the same, YESTERDAY, to-day, and forever. Yet he has hitherto suffered much sin and unhappiness to exist in the Universe. Therefore, his power proves nothing against the endless continuance of sin and unhappiness among his creatures. His power will ere long be terrible to his enemies. Ps. ii. 9, 12. Rev. 6. 15–17

REASON LXXXIII.

John xvii. 2: "Thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him." As many as thou hast given him! This teaches, most plainly, that all are not given to Christ, in the sense here intended. V. 12: "Those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition."-Rea. 59.

REASON LXXXIV.

Luke ii. 10: "Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy," &c.-If " tidings" of a way of escape from a temporary punishment, in which inany Universalists believe, be "good tidings"-how exceedingly good must be the tidings of a way of escape from an endless punishment? Dear Reader, pause a moment, and answer this question with serious deliberation. Is it not a dictate of reason, that the greater and the more durable the punishment to which sin exposes us, the better are the tidings respecting a way of escape? If tidings of a way of escape from temporary punishment be good tidings; tidings of a way of escape from never ending punishment must be good indeed.

It is still more obvious to remark, that if sin des serves no punishment, more than "the trials and afflictions of this life," the tidings of the gospel scarcely deserve the appellation of good.

In a word, according to any and every form of Us

niversalism, the gospel tidings are not very good; but, according to the opposite doctrine, they are good tidings," INDEED-infinitely good tidings.

For more remarks on the passage before us see, Rea. 37.

REASON LXXXV.

Heb. ii. 9. Christ's "tasting death for every man," does not prove the salvation of every man.— Rea. 80.

REASON LXXXVI.

1 John ii. 1: “If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous," &c.-That Christ, in any special sense, advocates the cause of all the human race, is no where taught in the sacred volume. His prayer on the cross for his murderers, was only for those who knew not what they did.-Luke xxiii. 84.

He says, expressly, "I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me." John xvii. 9-Those given to Christ, in the sense here intended, are not all the world: they are, only, certain persons given him "out of the world" -V. 6. Nor have we any example of Christ's ever praying for any more than his disciples, and those who should believe in him through their word. V. 20.

If it be said, that Christ is the advocate of all, in

that he is "the propitiation for the sins of the whole world;" I refer again to Rea. 80.

REASON LXXXVII.

John xii. 32-Read V. 33; and see Reasons, 9, 15, 41.

REASON LXXXVIII.

Heb. ii. 8.-See Reasons 42 and 71.

John iv. 42: "We know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world." Chap. i. 9: "The true light that lighteth every man," &c.-Rea. 15, 31.

REASON XCII.

Luke iii. 6: "All flesh shall see the salvation of God."-Rea. 41. &c.

REASONS XCIII, XCIV.

Rom. viii. 21: "Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God." -V. 23: "Even we ourselves, groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body."

This is a description of the new creature, or new creation; i. e. of the church of God. Not only the new creation or the church, generally, but even the apostles and others, who had the first fruits of the Spirit, groaned within themselves, waiting for the completion of their salvation. The whole chapter, from the beginning to the end, is a description of the character and state of Christians, in distinction from the "carnally minded," impenitent, unbelieving world.

Phil. iii. 20, 21: "For our conversation is in heaven," &c.-A very different class of persons, from these, are mentioned V. 18, 19, who are "the enemies of the cross of Christ, and whose end is destruction."

REASON XCV.

1 Cor. xv. 22: "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive."-The Apostle here speaks only of temporal death and the resurrection. Nor is the word all, here used without limitation, in respect of temporal death; for we have proved, in the Introduction, that all, without exception, do not die; and for the same reason, all, without exception, will not be made alive in Christ by a resurrection from the dead-V. 51. 1 Thess. iv. 17.

Believers, though they die in Adam a temporal death, shall be made alive in Christ by a glorious resurrection unto life. This is what the Apostle as