elevation of mankind, and the character of every human being, exactly as it then is, becomes stereotyped for eternity! "Singular infatuation! unaccountable presumption! that would fain crowd all the works and triumphs of the Infinite Wisdom and Love into the narrow circle of seventy years that would dream of exhausting the vast energies and resources of Omnipotence, in the speck of time allotted to man below! That the Scriptures give no countenance to these limitations of time and means, which men fasten upon the Salvation of God, must be well known to every reader of the holy word. The Bible declares it to be His Will that All Men should be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth, and moreover, that He worketh all things after the counsel of His own Will. That His will to bring all men to salvation and truth, is but very partially accomplished in the present world, is evident to the senses of every man. But should this fact be considered as invalidating the plain declarations of the Scriptures---or bring into discredit the integrity of God, involved as it is in His pledged word---or as an evidence that His will is frustrated in this important matter? It should not, and it will not, in the mind of the enlightened believer in God. It only enlarges his compre hension of the sphere of Deity's operations, and brings him unavoidably into the belief, that whatever portion of God's Will is not accomplished in this life, will be completed in the world to come. Not that His will has been frustrated here, and must be remedied hereafter---for the Scriptures do not say that God wills all men to be saved in this life,---but that, in the great cycle of the Creator's providence, the time for the perfect accomplishment of His will is not to be expected in this brief period of human life below, but should be looked for 'in the dispensation of the fulness of times.' * "What consistent reason can be assigned why a will so holy and lovely as that which designs the extinction of all sin and evil, and the sanctification and happiness of the entire family of man, should not be carried on to an entire fulfilment in the life to come? Are the souls of sins ners more precious here than they will be hereafter? Is it any more desirable that the wicked should repent and turn

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to God here, than it will be hereafter? * If it manifests great goodness and mercy in God and in Christ to be interested in the sinner's welfare here, will not the same Goodness and Mercy inspire a similar interest in the life to come? Can time or place change principles, or alter the purposes of infinite love and compassion? Is not Jehovah immutable and unchangeable in His perfections? If God is Love today, wil! He not be Love to-morrow and forever? If His love leads Him to shower constant blessings upon all mankind in this life, will it not be as prolific, as impartial, and as incessant in the dispensations of its benignity throughout eternity?"*

"GOD IS LOVE."

"If but these words that Book contain'd
On which our every hope is built,

"Twould be enough, though we had drain'd
The very dregs of grief and guilt.

LOVE will not harm,- LovE will not PAUSE,
In doing good to aught that's dear,

Till Nature doth reverse her laws,

And thwart high Heaven in its career.

JULIA H. SCOTT.

PROPOSITION THIRTY-FIRST.

The Work of Salvation shall Continue to Go on as long as there is an Unreconciled Subject of Christ's Kingdom) remaining, and as long as Sin shall Exist.

"He that is our God is the God of Salvation.'

PROOFS.

"This Man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable Priesthood. Wherefore he is able to Save them to the Uttermost who come unto God by him, ['he will draw All Men unto him,' 'All are given unto me, and shall come to me.] Seeing, he Ever Liveth to Make Intercession for them.'---Heb. vii. 25. 'And if ANY MAN Sin, he hath an Advocate,' &c.--1 John ii. 1, 2.

*Austin of the Attributes, p. 210--213. This is one of the most estimable of all the numerous publications of our Denomination.

"The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a Priest FOREVER, after the order of Melchisedek.'---Ps. cx. 4, Heb. vii. 21.

"The Lord is Good; His Mercy is Everlasting; and His Faithfulness endureth to All Generations.'---Ps. c. 5.

'The heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth. shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. But MY SALVATION SHALL BE FOREVER, and My Righteousness shall not be Abolished.'--Isa. li. 6. 'His Righteousness endureth Forever.'---Ps.

cxi. 3.

"The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Dead, and of ETERNAL JUDGMENT.'---Heb. vi. 2. The Lord is our JUDGE, He will SAVE US.'---Isa. xxxiii. 22. 'All Nations shall come

and Worship before Thee, for Thy JUDGMENTS are made manifest.'--Rev. xv. 4.

'I have said, MERCY SHALL BE BUILT UP FOREVER; My Faithfulness shalt thou establish in the Heavens.'---Ps. lxxxiv. 2. Thy Faithfulness is unto All Generations.'--Ps. cxix. 90.

'The moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool; but My Righteousness shall be FOREVER, My Salvation from Generation to Generation.' --Isa. li. S.

'The mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but My Kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the Covenant of My Peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath Mercy on thee.'---Isa. liv. 10. 'He sent Redemption unto His People; He commanded His Covenant FOREVER.'---Ps.

exi. 9.

'Unto us a Son is given, and the Government shall be upon his shoulder; of the Increase of his Government and Peace, THERE SHALL BE NO END.'---Isa. ix. 6, 7.

'And the gates of it, [Zion,] shall not be shut at all by day, and there shall be no night there.'---Rev. xxi. 25. 'Whosoever will, let him take the Water of Life FREELY.'---xxii. 17.

"Through the ten thousand times ten thousand grades
Of blessedness, above the world's and Man's

Ability to feel or to conceive,

The soul may pass, and yet know nought of heav'n,
More than a dim and miniature reflection,

Of its most bright infinity; for God

Makes to each spirit its peculiar heav'n;
And yet is heav'n a bright reality,

As this, or any of yon worlds; a state
Where all is loveliness, and power, and love;
Where all sublimest qualities of mind,
Not infinite, are limited alone,

By the surrounding God-hood,-and where nought
But what produceth glory and delight

To creature and Creator is; where all

Enjoy entire dominion o'er themselves,

Acts, feelings, thoughts, conditions, qualities,

Spirit, and soul, and mind,-All under God."-FESTUS.

PROPOSITION THIRTY-SECOND.

There is to be a RESURRECTION in the Future, Spiritual World, from Physical and Moral Death to the Divine Likeness of Christ, for the Spirits of All Flesh.

PROOFS.

'Ye do err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the Power of God; for, IN THE RESURRECTION, THEY ARE AS THE AN

GELS OF GOD IN HEAVEN.'-Mat. xxii. 29--30.

'Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the Scriptures, neither the Power of God? For, when they shall Rise from the Dead, THEY ARE AS THE ANGELS WHICH ARE IN HEAVEN.'-Mark xii. 24, 25.

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'As we have borne the image of the Earthy, [Adam,] WE SHALL ALSO BEAR THE IMAGE OF THE HEAVENLY, [Christ.]-1 Cor. xv. 49. One is just as true as the other. As surely as we have been born into the earth, so surely shall we be also born anew into heaven. As true as we have been created in the likeness of the first-born of earth, So truly shall we also be re-created into the image of the first-born of heaven. Who can resist the force of so express a testimony? Have not All borne the image of the earthy? Have not All Souls been born into this world? And the great Universal New Birth of the Resurrection is to glorify all these, that is, of course, every human creature, with the heavenly, angelic, image.

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'As in Adam ALL die, even so, IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE.'-1 Cor. xv. 22. From what kind of death does the Apostle here contemplate the Resurrection of All? Evidently, that which came upon the soul of Adam in the day of his disobedience, and not physical death, merely. We have no evidence that God first created the dust of Adam immortal, so that his earthly body would never have returned to the dust from whence it came if he had not sinned,-there is proof to the contrary. Therefore naturally, all mankind may not be said to die in Adam, because mortal death is the inevitable, involuntary 'debt of nature,' which every man must suffer if he is born, whether Adam had existed or not. But the Scriptures suppose that all men have inherited from Adam the spiritual mortality which came upon him at the fall, and thus accordingly say, ‘in Adam All die.' And the purpose of the Resurrection is that the deathly condition of our spirits shall be abolished, and quickened and made alive in Christ. 'And if any man be in Christ, he is become a New Creature,'

'How are the dead Raised up, and with what body do they come ? That which thou sowest, thou sɔuest not that body which SHALL BE. It is sown in Dishonour, IT IS RAISED IN GLORY; it is sown in weakness, IT IS RAISED IN POWER; it is sown a natural, [literally, ‘an animal,'] body, IT IS RAISED A SPIRITUAL BODY.'-1 Cor. xv. 35, 37, 43, 44. It is the Father's Will, that of All Flesh and All Things, which He hath given unto His Son, he should Raise all up at the last day, and Lose Nothing.-John vi. 39, &c.

'He hath given Assurance unto ALL MEN, in that He hath Raised up Jesus from the Dead.'-Acts xvii. 31.

'God is not the God of the dead, [for there are no dead,] but of the living: FOR ALL LIVE UNTO HIM.'-Mat. xxii. 30.

'NO MAN DIETH TO HIMSELF; for whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whether we Die, wE DIE UNTO THE LORD; whether we live, therefore, OR DIE, we are the Lord's. For to this end Christ both died, rose, and revived, THAT HE MIGHT BE LORD BOTH OF THE DEAD AND THE LIVING.'-Rom. xiv. 7--9.

'Our Lord Jesus Christ Died for Us, [Mankind,] that