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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... Sinners think they are doing their duty , examined --- Mr. B.'s character good , though his system is of dangerous tendency --- Deniers of a future retribution dwell but little upon practical religion --- Term of fellowship ...
... Sinners think they are doing their duty , examined --- Mr. B.'s character good , though his system is of dangerous tendency --- Deniers of a future retribution dwell but little upon practical religion --- Term of fellowship ...
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... the possession of appetites , then Jesu Christ was a sinner ; for the was tempted in all points as Aton pp . 41 , 42 . Apostle testifies that h we are , and yet withou sess . sin . * This text furnishes us with 38 LETTER II .
... the possession of appetites , then Jesu Christ was a sinner ; for the was tempted in all points as Aton pp . 41 , 42 . Apostle testifies that h we are , and yet withou sess . sin . * This text furnishes us with 38 LETTER II .
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... sinners in a moment at death , in such a man- ner as to qualify them for immediate felicity . I ask for one single text which asserts that men , who die in confirmed wickedness , will be totally changed in the instant of death ; raised ...
... sinners in a moment at death , in such a man- ner as to qualify them for immediate felicity . I ask for one single text which asserts that men , who die in confirmed wickedness , will be totally changed in the instant of death ; raised ...
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... sinners are brought in an instant into the presence of God , where they must possess divine knowledge , it entirely excludes the exercise of faith . " Faith , " says an Apostle , " is the substance of things hoped for ; the evidence of ...
... sinners are brought in an instant into the presence of God , where they must possess divine knowledge , it entirely excludes the exercise of faith . " Faith , " says an Apostle , " is the substance of things hoped for ; the evidence of ...
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... sinner until he has committed sin , and unless the criminality outlives the act , then guilt is as momentary as the act . And hence all punishment inflicted in this world , is cruel and vindictive , if it continue one mo- ment after the ...
... sinner until he has committed sin , and unless the criminality outlives the act , then guilt is as momentary as the act . And hence all punishment inflicted in this world , is cruel and vindictive , if it continue one mo- ment after 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.