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 OthersD. Watson, 1827 - 307 pages |
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... happiness , and is unphilosophical - The promise to Abraham , considered -The case of Adam , Cain , the old world , Sodom , Korah , Pharaoh and Judas , considered - The law of Moses , and the case of the Israelites , examined - Several ...
... happiness , and is unphilosophical - The promise to Abraham , considered -The case of Adam , Cain , the old world , Sodom , Korah , Pharaoh and Judas , considered - The law of Moses , and the case of the Israelites , examined - Several ...
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... happiness . We do not believe that those will be punished in a future state , who have been duly punished , and have become penitent here ; no - this discipline will be experienced by none but those who have not been equitably recom ...
... happiness . We do not believe that those will be punished in a future state , who have been duly punished , and have become penitent here ; no - this discipline will be experienced by none but those who have not been equitably recom ...
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... happiness of all men at the article of death ? In this way we might dispute eternally without coming to the merits of the question . But I am not desirous of throwing all the laber on either side . I wish you to defend your system both ...
... happiness of all men at the article of death ? In this way we might dispute eternally without coming to the merits of the question . But I am not desirous of throwing all the laber on either side . I wish you to defend your system both ...
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... happiness . St. Paul to the Romans speaks of the lusts of the flesh . But we have already seen that the same apostle frequently speaks of spiritual wickedness , filthi- ness of the spirit , and lusts of the mind . From these * See ...
... happiness . St. Paul to the Romans speaks of the lusts of the flesh . But we have already seen that the same apostle frequently speaks of spiritual wickedness , filthi- ness of the spirit , and lusts of the mind . From these * See ...
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... happiness must be their portion , they are saved not by Christ , but by death . It is the immu- table law of animal nature , that every thing which comes into the world , must suffer dissolution , and return to its kindred dust ; and in ...
... happiness must be their portion , they are saved not by Christ , but by death . It is the immu- table law of animal nature , that every thing which comes into the world , must suffer dissolution , and return to its kindred dust ; and in ...
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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.