sit down patiently to the work of refutation.?We will not promise to bring forth every objection from high and low, which has ever been urged against the theory of universal deliverance from sin and sorrow ; for that would be to scan an endless field of folly and perversity, and, by a tedious line of illustration,chaussures Timberland to concentrate an argument of great comparative strength, for that entire depravity for which our Christian brethren contend. Be it ours, at the present time, to notice, with all due respect, the strongest and most popular objections which are urged against the doctrine in question.?These objections, considered worthy of notice at the present time, Timberland Pas cher are, in number, ten:?I. The theory in question is denounced as the doctrine of the devil; as having been the invention of Satan, who, it is said, first preached it to the woman in the garden of Eden, when he said in his deception, " Ye shall not surely die."?II. It is denounced as a species of infidelity; a denial of some of the fundamental parts of the Christian revelation.?III.Timberland Chukka is objected to as being a new doctrine;?? UNIVERSALIS!! AGAINST PARTIALISM.?an innovation upon the established doctrines of the church.?IV. It is affirmed to be the production of a onesided view of the Bible ; as an hypothesis built upon the promises of God, to the neglect of his most awful threatenings.?V. It is said to involve an absolute denial of the justice of Jehovah.?VI. It is declared to be the result of an unprincipled perversion of the Scriptures.?VII. It is a doctrine said to be particularly pleasing to the carnal mind.?VIII. It is also affirmed to be " too good to be true."?IX. It is said to be built upon a denial of the free .agency of man.?X. It is, finally, Timberland Classic Bottes said to be a doctrine which will do very well to live by, but will not do to die by.?Add to this, that it is also denounced as a device most ruinous to the souls of men, being of a terrible, demoralizing influence ; which objection, from its importance and prominency, we have reserved for a separate discourse ; and we have here, I think, a very candid statement of the principal objections brought against us by "those of the contrary part."?The honest, dignified, and intellectual opponent may find it

hard to suppress a smile, despite of the seriousness of the subject. And if he can patiently listen to us while we come down to answer these?? UNIVERSALIS!! AGAINST PARTIALISM.?charges, chaussures Timberland  we will endeavor, in the spirit of Paul before Agrippa, to count ourselves happy, because we shall answer for ourselves, at this time, touching all the things whereof we are accused of the multitude.?I. The doctrine, then, in the first place, is denounced as the invention of Satan, who preached it, originally, to Eve in the garden of Eden. This is, indeed, a charge of some magnitude;Timberland Pas cher   and it would be singularly mortifying, as well as singularly absurd, could we truly trace the doctrine of a world's salvation back to the enemy of all righteousness as its source and origin in the earth. But, before we notice the absurdity which such a supposition involves, it were well to ascertain the truth of this accusation, by looking at the sermon which the devil preached on this occasion. God, Timberland Chukka it seems, had been warning Adam of the fearful consequences of transgression in partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and solemnly declared that of this he should not eat; " For in the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die This, be it recollected, was the truth of God. It was inevitable, and not to be despised. Death, certain and unavoidable, should take place upon Adam, on the very day of transgression. Now this is precisely what Universalists preach. They hold forth death to the transgressor, from which there can be no escape. And this punishment, as in the case of Adam, in the first transgression, is,?? UNIVERSALIS!! AGAINST PARTIALISM.?to a great degree, immediate in its operations: it is true now as it was when Adam sinned, " In the day thon eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Be it remembered, that this was not natural or physical death; neither was it eternal death, which phrase does not occur in the Bible. It was not natural death which took place on that day;Timberland  Classic Bottes for Adam lived many hundred years after that, and begat many sons and daughters. And of course, if it was not natural, it could not be eternal death; for that, if true, cannot take place till after the body has yielded to the fell destroyer. It must, then, have been moral or spiritual death; for this, in fact

is the only death that could take place, according to the other history of Adam, upon the day of his transgression. He died on that day, Timberland Pas cher  according to the plain and unescapable threatening of the Lord. He died to innocence, to virtue, and to so much of happiness as was the consequence of the violated law. And this agrees precisely with the representations of moral death given by the Old Testament writers,chaussures Timberland  by Christ, and his apostles. Wisdom is styled life. "She is a tree of life" says the wise man, " to them that lay hold upon her; and happy is every one that retaineth her." Prov. iii. . Again, " Whoso findeth me, findeth life." Prov. viii. . Again, " In the way of righteousness is life, and on the other hand in the pathway thereof there is no death." Prov. xii. . Jesus also himself says, " If a man keep??UNIVERSALIS!! AGAINST PARTIALISM. ?my saying, he shall never see death" John viii. . This, evidently, cannot mean natural death; and it is altogether gratuitous to say that it means eternal death. But it signifies that spiritual death, which, if a man helieve and obey the gospel, Timberland Chukka will never be his portion in the world. Jesus is styled " the bread of life" And, again, " The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life;v that is, they quicken and invigorate all the inner man. The apostle also assures us that " To be carnally minded is death." Rom viii. . Death is not said here to succeed carnalmindedness as a punishment, though this may be a truth asserted in other places; but the very state of carnalmindedness is itself a state of death, of moral torpor and misery. John says, " He that loveth not his brother abideth in death" John iii. in the present time. In precise accordance with this, the same apostle says, " We know that we have passed already passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren." John iii. .?This testimony is sufficient,Timberland Classic Bottes from the Old Testament and the New, to show that death, as the term frequently occurs in the Bible, is a depraved moral condition in the present life ; a death, as the apostle significantly expresses it, a " death in trespasses and sins."?Now this is the death which Adam was threatened with, and of which

he died, on the day he tasted of the forbidden fruit. The history of his? Go? UNIVERSALIS!! AGAINST PARTIALISM.?after life shows that it could be no other; and the Scriptures, as we have seen, are in full accordance with this exposition of the subject.?This is the death God preached to Adam, chaussures Timberland  and this is the death in whieh Universalists believe. But the devil contradicted God. " The serpent said unto die woman, Ye shall not surely die." Now this is not our doctrine We believe no such thing. Do we not invariably contend for a death, a punishment in the day of transgression? Why., then, charge us with preaching the devil's doctrine, who so plainly contradicted this threatening of the Lord, and this prominent and distinguishing tenet in the Universalist's faith? God said,Timberland Pas cher In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." This is what we believe This is the faith of Universalists. The devil said, " Ye shall not surely die." We rejeet his testimony as false and dangerous to men.?But, seeing this doctrine is not ours, it were worth a while to inquire whose doctrine it is. Who has espoused this sentiment of Satan, and who is guilty of the eharge ? My brethren, did you ever hear sentiments like these : that sin was a pleasant thing in life; that many fascinations and many delights abound in the paths of wickedness ; that it is even true, that punishments are not inflicted upon many transgressors who revel in iniquity, and they riot in an intoxication of bliss, an the direst depravity, while judgment is delayed,?? UNIVERSALIS!! AGAINST PARTIALISM.?and they are permitted to enjoy their sinftri pleasures, and do not surely and inevitably suffer ? Did you ever hear a worse form of doctrine ? Did you ever hear it contended for earnestly, that sin might be reveled in,Timberland Chukka  and its votaries go triumphing on, from day to day, and from year to year, escaping the penalties of justice, with a high hand and an' outstretched arm, and, by a timely repentance, even escape the retributions of eternity, and sit down among the company of the celestial, thus clearing all, or nearly all, the judgments of the Lawgiver, and going forever unwhipped of justice?" In short, Timberland Classic Bottes did you ever hear it virtually and substantially declared that the sinner does not surely die in life, to the full extent and meaning of the law, and does not surely die in eternity, but may even