. II. Eternal fource of endless good, Who all our wants fupplies; Life, fhelter, health, peace, joy, and food, III. Creator hail, thy name we bless, O make thy works thy name confess, T. ! BOOKS Sold at No. 100, Houndfditch, by Teulon and Co. Winchester's Dialogues on the Restoration. -Lectures on the Prophecies which remain to be fulfilled. N.B. Four compleat sets of the Lectures are in hand. Philadelphian Magazine. Revelation Defended; an Answer to T. Paine's first part of the Age of Reason, with a Preface by William Vidler. Most of Mr. Winchester's single Sermons. Dr. Chauncy on Universal Salvation. Petitpierre on the Love of God. The Everlasting Gospel, in three Numbers, with a Preface by William Vidler. Sermon. The Designs of the Death of Chrift, by William Vidler. Letters by Mr. S. Bradburn, and all the Methodist Preachers, in England, by William Vidler. Bibles, Hymn Books, &c. &c. THE UNIVERSALIST's MISCELLANY FOR FEBRUARY, 1797. Letter to Mr. ANDREW FULLER, continued from YOU page 11. next afk, 'Is not the genius of the fentiment (of the Reftoration) oppofite to every other fentiment in the Bible; because the whole tenor of Scripture faith to the righteous it shall be well with him, and to the wicked it fhall be ill with him?? I fully accord with you, Sir, this is the whole tenor of Scripture, and I rejoice in being able to say, that the whole tenor of my miniftry is according to it also. If the doctrine of the Restoration of all Things, deftroyed that difcrimination of moral character among men, which the Scripture every where abounds with, it then ought to be held in abhorrence by every man. And I believe it is in this view of it, that many ferious minds immediately revolt when the doctrine is mentioned. But let me inform you, Sir, that the univerfal fentiment is, in my view, above all others friendly to holiness. VOL. I. pu ift. It holds forth the Scripture declaration of nishment according to works, more clearly than any other. The doctrine of annihilation gives indifcriminate and endless death to all the wicked—and the doctrine of endless mifery feems to confound all degrees of punishment in giving infinite punishment to them all. But limited punishment, which is included only in the Universal doctrine, fhews clearly how it may be more, or less tolerable in judgment for one finner than another, and how one may have few ftripes, and another many. 2d. It fhews the great diftinction betwixt the righteous and the wicked without contradicting any part of Scripture, or obfcuring any of the Divine perfections. For it teaches that the believer in Chrift is paffed from death unto life, and fhall not come into condemnation.-That Chrift gives to fuch eternal life, and they shall never perish.-That Christ will give to them a kingdom, and they fhall be kings and priefs to him.-But that the wicked fhall not inherit the kingdom of God-but they fhall perish. they fhall die-even the second death.--And notwithftanding which there fhall, in the times which God hath appointed, be a reftitution of all things; a reconciliation of all things by the blood of his crofs; Death fhall be fwallowed up in victory; there fhall be no more death. 3d. It carries the idea of the purity of God to its proper fcriptural extent, by fhewing that fin is fo hateful hateful to him, that he will utterly deftroy it. For Chrift was manifefted that he might utterly destroy the works of the devil. And as all fin is the work of the devil, fo all must be deftroyed, or else the works of the devil will endlessly exist, and confequently the end of Chrift's manifeftation will be fruftrated. But the Universal doctrine teaches that all the counsel of God fhall ftand, and that he will perform all his pleasure. We believe that God will pursue fin with his difpleasure in every state in which it is found. That he will fearch out the iniquity of the wicked till he find none. Pf. x. 15. So that it will always be ill with the wicked and well with the righteous, for he will deal with his creatures according to character, with the merciful he will fhew himself merciful, with the pure he will fhew himself pure, and with the froward he will fhew himself froward. Pf. xviii. 26. That is, if his creatures walk contrary to him, he will walk contrary to them. And if they continue to walk contrary to him, he will then walk contrary to them in fury, and chastise them seven times more for their fins, till he has finally fubdued them, that they may be reconciled to him by the blood of the crofs. See Lev. chap xxvi. which whole chapter I would recommend to your ferious confideration, as I apprehend it contains an epitome of the dealings of God with all men. And take this further thought, that the Divine character is always the fame. What G 2 God God is now, that he always will be. A God that hateth fin, and as he makes ufe of natural evil or punishment to correct moral evil or fin, while we are on earth, fo I can but think that he hath the fame defign in all future punishment: for with him there is no variablenefs or fhadow of turning. Is it not poffible, my dear Sir, to think rightly of the God of love, unless we afcribe endless wrath to him? Can we not love, revere, and imitate his purity, unless we believe that he will fuffer fin endlessly to exist, yea to have dominion over the greatest part of mankind? Did he fend his only begotten fon into the world, full of grace and truth, to give us this character of himself? No, he hath told us on the contrary, that he is the living God, the Saviour of all men; but especially of them who believe.— 1 Tim. iv. 10. I dare appeal to you, or any other man, whether it can be any thing injurious to the holiness of God, or to the dignity of the doctrine of atonement, to suppose that fin, univerfally, in all its power, guilt, and pollution, fhall be deftroyed? See Dan. ix. 24. Rather does not the dishonour both to divine purity, and to the efficacy of atonement, attach itself to your fcheme? feeing you muft of neceffity admit either that God cannot, or will not, make an end of fin; that there is not efficacy enough in the blood of the croís to deftroy the works of the devil, or elfe that the full efficacy of the atonement is with-held by the Divine determination. Your |