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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1839 Excerpt: ...His parental love; for He is "unwilling that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." These passages have been quoted, not as isolated texts, which convey a doctrine not elsewhere taught; but because they epitomise in the plainest language, and with the most comprehensive clearness, that doctrine which pervades the whole volume of inspiration. They admit of hut one interpretation; they relate solely to our glorious privileges as Christians; they have reference only to futurity. Now, can any harmony be said to exist throughout the writings of the sacred Scriptures, if they elsewhere teach that some men are unalterably and eternally condemned to perdition? And again, should we conceive at first sight, that any passage gives countenance to such a belief; is it not our duty, most earnestly and diligently to seek the true meaning of such passage, by ascertaining the design of the writer, and the scope he proposes to himself? for if upon comparing one passage of Scripture with another, they are found to contain contradictory doctrines, our dependance on such unsteady records must at once cease, and the word of God become of none effect. I am well aware that it is not enough to say, the words before us are at variance with other parts of Scripture, if the doctrine they have been adduced to prove be true, and that therefore, such doctrine must be false, because in such a case, it would still be doubtful on which side the error lay; but I hope to be able to show that they harmonize in the minutest points, with those clear and oft-recurring precepts, which neither logical ingenuity, nor enthusiastic fanaticism, can divert from their plain and obvious import; and are so far from limiting the mercy of God, in the salvation of man, that they...
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