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    the final restoration &f the wicked la virtue and happiness * or con-^ ffiiB » g- * & £ extinction of thei r h $ tBg ; but it should seem that $ bek condemnation consists in tfaeif beiag exel tided from receiv . iftc * any passible benefit from the ^ hristiarn dispe nsation , tbe provisions of which they have

    disregarded , and in being consigned jpyer to a state or dispensation gauilttcted on different principles , &U $ which it did not belong to Christianity to disclose . iiaTfce lust judgment will be the

    coosttfivmalion of the Christian dispensation ; Christ will then & $ Uvv $ up his kingdom to the Fa * t&er ^ so that the wicked will be forever cut off from deriving any totesntages from its gracious provision's . Having not availed themselves of ' the salvation which has

    some by means of the gospel , hiving slighted the advantages of tbis dispensation , a dispensation of suffering awaits them . This is all that the New Testament declares , kwv signifies an age or

    dispensation ; atovivs that which lasts during an age or dispensation . There is a dispensation of suffering prepared for the devil and his angels—for all the adherents of evil * It was not the

    object ^ Christianity give us any information concerning this dispensation of suffering ; and it is , therefore ^ iti * vain to expect any information concerning it from the scriptures . But if our curiosity ** ili carry u > farther , and if we

    reason as far a ?> we can on the grounds of natural religion , I think that probability is grvatly on the side of the universalists . The Creator of the universe , and the Father of all his creatures ^

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    is the God of the wicked as well as ^ of t&e god *; and the knowledge of bis paternal character and infinite benevolence will iH 3 fc

    for a moment suffer us to entertain the thought , that the display of the glory of his sovereignty will consist in the exercise of tyranny inconceivably great and dreadful . The scriptures do not support

    the scheme of annihilation ariV more than that of eternal punish * ments . The expressions used iffe indefinite ; and those who adopt either scheme , are previously disv posed to be swayed by reasons

    which are quite independent <> f such evidence . The scriptural expressions relating to the futurb punishment of the wicked , af £ , I think , sufficiently well explained on my hypothesis . '

    I have designedly been as brief as possible in explaining my viewS , because your readers may be &t length tired of the discussions oil this subject , especially as they have sometimes degenerated intd

    personal altercations , I am cerV tain then lam only the herald di the far greater part of your readers , when I say , Let no personalities or animosity be ever itdmissible into the Repository .

    Many questions , Sir , of great importance ( if f may lure intro - duce a fresh topic ) have at different times been discussed in the Nos , of the Repository ; which I think must have proved very us ^ fill to those whose inquiries were

    directed to such topics . Though such discussions mibt , in the very nature ol such a publication , be rather miscellaneous , yet hints , remarks , arguments , views , &c . are brought forward which are frequently of essential service to

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1814, page 769, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2447/page/41/