following testimony, "My counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure," Isa, 46, 10. He thinks it does not appear from this text in Tim. that God wills the salvation of all men in any other sense than "Christ willed to gather the children of Jerusalem, under his kind protecting care, but they would not." But the passages are not parallel, "How often would I have gathered" "and ye would not," is not expressive of any positive will. It merely expresses a willingness on one part, had it not been for the opposition on the other part. But considering that opposition, it was the positive will of Christ that blindness in part should happen to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles he come in, and “so all Israel shall be saved," Rom, 11∙ "For as the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower and bread to the eater; so shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Isa, 55, 10, 11. Will Mr. P. affirm that the word of God will return unto him void and unsuccessful, notwithstanding this testimony? If so, he would directly contradict the divine word. Whoever declares it is not the positive will of God to save all men, contradicts the Apostle Paul; and whoever does not believe in the accomplishment of the will of God, virtually calls in question the power of the Almighty to accomplish his own pleasure.

Lastly Mr. P. quotes 1, Cor, 15, 20. "For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." All he says on this passage is the following. "This whole chapter is taken up with an argument for the resurrection of Christ's disciples, drawn from the resurrection of the Saviour himself. Neither the salvation of saints or sinners is hinted at in the text the text plainly speaks of the resurrection of the body and nothing else." If assertions prove any thing, this passage was very speedily disposed of! According to this, there is no evidence in the 15th of first Cor. that any will rise from the dead, except Christ's disciples-nothing is said of salvation, nor of any thing else, except the resurrection of the body! According to this, even, the disciples may be endowed with bodies, without becoming the subjects of salvation! The fact is the 15th chapter of first Cor. contains direct evidence of the resurrection, incorruption, glory, power and spiritual life of the whole human race, and Mr. P. thought it advisable to pass it over as lightly as possible. "As in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive." There are various opinons con-cerning the nature of the death, or deaths, which mankind died in Adam. But if this text is true all will be made alive in Christ even so, or in like manner, as they died in Adam. If they died spiritually or naturally in Adam or the earthly nature, they will be made spiritually, or naturally alive. They certainly did not die eternally in Adam, because there is no evidence of this in the bible-and if they had died eternally, there would have been no possibility of their being made alive in Christ. Will Mr. P.

pretend that none but the disciples of Christ died in Adam? How strangely prejudice will blind intelligent men! "When all things shall be subdued unto him (Christ) then shall the son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all." Mr. P. has noticed but a very small portion of the direct testimony used by Universalists. We have examined his remarks upon every passage which he has noticed. Whether he has weakened or obscured those passages or not, you will judge.

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"all the main arguments (of Universalists) clash with one another.” This is something We have long been satisfied that many religionists hold to contradictions, but we verily thought Universalists free from this charge, at least in relation to their principal arguments; and we think so still; for every one of Mr. P's supposed contradictions, is a man of straw which he has created. Universalists believe no man deserves eternal punishment, and that none can or will be delivered from what they do deserve. It has never yet been shown that justice requires something more than mere discipline. If it may possibly be true that the sinner deserves eternal punishment;" let it be proved true, and we will listen to it. No Universalist ever pretended that the sinner deserves salvation, consequently there is ample opportunity for the exercise

of divine mercy. We believe goodness is consis

tent "with inflicting the very penalty of the law" but the bible does not say, that penalty is endless misery. We do not deny that any need forgiveness -on the contrary we contend that all sinners need

and will receive forgiveness; but we do not believe forgiveness does violence to the demands of justice. Where now are Mr. P's supposed absurdities or contradictions of Universalists? The creations of

his own fancy-they do not exist. But lest he should amuse himself with imaginary contradictions only, we will present him with something real. The catechism which he professes to believe teaches the following, "all mankind by the fall lost communion with God, are under his wrath and curse, and so made liable to all the miseries of this life, to death itself and to the pains of hell-forever." Here all mankind are declared under the endless wrath and curse of the Almighty. The very next question in that same catechism is, "Did God leave all mankind to perish in the estate of sin and misery?" Answer "God having out of his mere good pleasure from all eternity, elected some to everlasting life, did enter into a covenant of grace, to deliver them out of the estate of sin, and misery, & to bring them into an estate of salvation by a redeemer." Here it is declared that God from all eternity, elected to everlasting life, SOME of the same race of beings, who had ALL been just declared under his never-ending curse !!! O let the mantle of divine charity enshield the errors of mortals-and let all flesh trust in the Lord Jehovah, in whom is everlasting strength.

SERMON III.

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"For the day of vengeance is in mine the of my redeemed is come. year 39 Isa. 63, 4. In his discourse from this text, Mr. Parker endeavors to draw an argument from the Providences of God, confirmatory of the doctrine of eternal misery. He says, "we do not rely upon an argument drawn from Divine Providence to prove the doctrine of eternal punishment-we produce it only to confirm a doctrine which we have shown in our first lecture is taught with great explicitness in the scriptures."

To this I reply: if I am not greatly deceived, I have incontestably shown in my answer to his first lecture that he entirely failed to exhibit any evidence of eternal punishment from the scriptures.Whether I have refuted his first lecture or not, I leave to be decided by the candid of all parties, who may examine and compare what we have both written. But being willing to give Mr. P's confirmatory evidence all the weight to which it is entitled, I shall briefly notice his principal arguments.

In his introductory remarks, he says, Christ "assures the most unexceptionable moralist, who is yet destitute of true piety, that he cannot escape the damnation of hell." But why did he not refer us to the passage which contains such language? Perhaps he thinks the New Testament contains that sentiment, but we assure him he cannot find it. How long will it require for a controversialist to understand the dif