A Series of Letters Addressed to Rev. Hosea Ballou, of Boston: Being a Vindication of the Doctrine of a Future Retribution Against the Principal Arguments Used by Him, Mr. Balfour, and Others |
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... inflicted in case of transgression . The very idea of accountability , there- fore , teaches us that virtue will be rewarded and vice punished , here or hereafter . Rewards and punishments grow necessarily out of accountability ; and ...
... inflicted in case of transgression . The very idea of accountability , there- fore , teaches us that virtue will be rewarded and vice punished , here or hereafter . Rewards and punishments grow necessarily out of accountability ; and ...
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... inflicted by God are founded upon the same principle . * Now if it be cruel in God to punish men according to their deeds in a future state , it is equally so in the present . And on the other hand , if punishment apportioned to our ...
... inflicted by God are founded upon the same principle . * Now if it be cruel in God to punish men according to their deeds in a future state , it is equally so in the present . And on the other hand , if punishment apportioned to our ...
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... inflicted in this world , is cruel and vindictive , if it continue one mo- ment after the crime is perpetrated . This principle would destroy all society , and fill the world with rapine and blood , should it be reduced to practice ...
... inflicted in this world , is cruel and vindictive , if it continue one mo- ment after the crime is perpetrated . This principle would destroy all society , and fill the world with rapine and blood , should it be reduced to practice ...
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... inflicted , there is nothing said of punish- As all these ment after death ; hence there is none . cases furnish precisely the same argument , we shall treat them together , or rather select one as a specimen . I will therefore call ...
... inflicted , there is nothing said of punish- As all these ment after death ; hence there is none . cases furnish precisely the same argument , we shall treat them together , or rather select one as a specimen . I will therefore call ...
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... inflicted in case of transgression . But this statement is contradicted by sober facts . Cain was punished by being a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth , and Sodom by being destroyed with fire from heaven , when neither Cain nor the ...
... inflicted in case of transgression . But this statement is contradicted by sober facts . Cain was punished by being a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth , and Sodom by being destroyed with fire from heaven , when neither Cain nor the ...
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Page 158 - For we must all appear before the judgment-seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Page 220 - Ye are they which justify yourselves before men ; but God knoweth your hearts : for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
Page 33 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 228 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit : by which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison ; which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Page 154 - For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment...
Page 104 - AND it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, " My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
Page 144 - Then began he to upbraid the cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, because they repented not. Woe unto thee, Chorazin ! woe unto thee, Bethsaida ! for if the mighty works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
Page 80 - ... them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast: for all is vanity. All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
Page 178 - Marvel not at this : for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in their graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth ; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
Page 143 - And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hell : for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day. But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.