Universalism Not of God; An Examination of the System of Universalism Its Doctrine, Arguments, and Fruits, With the Experience of the Author, During a Ministry of Twelve Years - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1847. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VII. FRUITS OF UNIVERSALISM. UNIVERSALISM DOES NOT PRODUCE THE FRUIT THAT ATTENDED THE PREACHING OF CHRIST AND THE APOSTLES : ON THE CONTRARY, ITS MORAL RESULTS ARE SUCH AS COULD NOT ATTEND A SYSTEM THAT CAME FROM GOD. 1. The Gospel alarmed men. It did so at Pentecost. The jailor, with trembling and fear, asked, " What must I do to be saved ?" Kings quailed as apostles " reasoned of judgment to come." Not so the preaching of Universalism. Its great business is to allay fear. It comes to men recommending itself as a system designed to remove all occasions of fear. It teaches that, while some systems present future woe, and alarm the ungodly in prospect of being lost, this comes to say, " Be not-alarmed; there is no eternal judgment; you cannot be lost; God will save all men : take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry." No preacher of this scheme of delusion has the question put to him by an aroused and startled conscience, " What must I do to be saved ?" 2. The Gospel reformed men. To this moral change, produced by their preaching, the apostles ever confidently appealed, to prove that their religion was from God, and that they -were its divinely-appointed teachers. Into the most corrupt cities of the world Paul introduced the Gospel of his Master. He lifted up the cross, and saw a change--an immediate change--in the character of those who received his word. He could appeal to them to remember what they had been, and what they were through the Spirit of God. Out of that polluted class of men whose crimes he enumerates, the apostle was able to exhibit, in the reformation of many before a gainsaying world, the truth, that the religion of Christ was from heaven. It is not thus with Universalism. Inever saw a single case of reform under its preaching. You hear ...

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