ISBN: 9781231084052

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 72 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purc… Plus…

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 72 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.1in.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. 1835 Excerpt: . . . you have formed so just an estimate of the character of the author. Well, what do you think of the views there advanced Inq. With many things, I am much pleased. But I discover he differs from your system, essentially. He maintains that some men are infinite losers by their existence! Uni. You must have misunderstood him. I read the Dialogues, some years since, and assisted in getting the work re-printed, which I never should have done, if it had taught what you suppose. Inq. Well, Sir, I have taken extracts, and you may judge for yourself, whether I am right. Mr. W. says, speaking of the sin against the holy Ghost, But under the gospel, there is but one crime, which is properly unpardonable, and that absolutely subjects the person guilty of it, to the second death. The second death is infinitely more the enemy of man than the first. (pp. 116, 118. ) And on page 136, the writer says, while advocating the cause of Judas, there are a thousand circumstances into which the children of Adam fall, that make their case infinitely worse than though they had never been born, even without supposing a state of future punishment, at all. I had rather a thousand times, never have been born, than to have betrayed Christ, even upon the supposition that I had never been doomed to suffer for it, beyond this life. In another place, he says, Christ threatened that those his disciples who would not deny themselves, and cut off those things that led them into sin, should suffer infinitely greater inconveniences, by being cast into hell. p. 102. Is not this enough The writer considers the sufferings of this life, as a thousand times, nay, infinitely worse, than not to have been born, and the miseries of hell, as still infinitely g. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<