which the Lord God had made." "And the Lord God said unto the fallen angel, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all CATTLE and above every beast of the field: upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life." A singular mode of travelling, and extraordinary diet, most surely! "Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and a fallen angel came also among them. And the Lord said unto the fallen angel, whence comest thou? Then the fallen angel answered the Lord and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and WALKING up and down in it." So it appears the devil had got upon his legs again, although he was condemned ever afterwards to go upon his belly! And, moreover, instead of being cursed above all cattle, he was certainly blessed above all cattle if he lived till the days of Job!! "And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the fallen ungels, and for the calves which HE HAD MADE.” From this it appears that Jeroboam made the devils!! Who made those that tempted Eve and smote poor Job? "He rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me fallen angel”! "And he said unto them, I beheld a fallen angel as lightning fall from heaven"! "Wherefore we would have come unto you (even I, Paul,) once again; but a fallen angel hindered us." "Of whence (those who had made shipwreck of the faith) is Hymenius and Alexander [Who, Alexander Hall?] whom I have delivered unto a fullen angel that they may learn not to blaspheme"! What! send a man to the devil to learn correct language! We had always supposed he was Chief Professor in hell's high school of blasphemy!! "Have I not chosen you twelve, and one of you is a fallen an

gel"? You will recollect, reader, that this fallen angel hanged himself, and of course is now dead! "Even so must their (the deacons) wives be grave, not fallen angels, sober and faithful in all things"! Certainly, it would be very wrong for deacons wives to be fallen angels; yet if reports about some orthodox ministers be true they nevertheless are!!

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Thus you see, reader, that our author's test tests his doctrine to death; and consequently cannot be relied on, and is therefore good for nothing. And we deny in toto the propriety of such a rule under any circumstanDefinitions, oftentimes comprising many words, if substituted in a sentence in place of a single word or epithet, would make nonsense of any truth under heavThe true and only way to test a definition, is first to ascertain whether it is agreeable with facts elsewhere; and second, whether it harmonizes with the general sense of the discourse, or sentence, in which the word or phrase defined occurs. To this rule we fearlessly submit the various definitions which the Universalists have given of the term devil, or any of its synonymies.

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We will here notice our author's exposition of James 1, 14: "Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lusts and enticed." He takes the position that lust is not the tempter, but the thing tempted.This is an absurdity in terms. To tempt, signifies to entice, to solicit to an evil act. Hence when the soul consents to an evil act, it is through the temptation, the enticement of the lusts. Every man is tempted WHEN he is drawn away of his own tusts and enticed'-that is, when he is enticed by his lusts he is tempted. But grant that the lust of men is the thing tempted; can it

be proved that a fallen personal angel, once a holy angel in heaven-represented as being bound in chains of darkness, yet roaming abroad through the whole earth like a roaring lion-can it be proved that such a being is the tempter of men's lusts? No NEVER! Let him who thinks the contrary, try a hand at it, and learn a lesson from inevitable defeat.

In conclusion we will lay before the reader some facts showing that the term devil was not used by Scripture writers to signify a personal being or a fallen angel.

Shaitan, the word rendered Satan in the Old Testament, occurs thifty-three times. It is applied to a well, to an angel of the Lord, a good being, to David, to the sons of Zeruiah, to the enemies of Solomon, to the evil passion or desire of David's own mind, to a piece of writing, etc., etc. Never once does it signify a personal fallen angel.

Diabolos, the word rendered devil in the New Testamont, occurs thirty-six times. It is translated devil thirty-three times, twice false accusers, and once slanderers. Donegan renders diabolos thus: an accuser a calumniator. Greenfield the same. Had the term been rendered by words that properly define it, no one would ever have dreimed that it was used to signify a fallen angel. In every text that our author has quoted, let the reader substitute either of the following wordsSlanderer, accuser, calumniator, opposer, enemy, or adversary, and he cannot fail of understanding them in their true sense.

Daimon and Daimonian. These words are also rendered devil or devils in the New Testament: the first occurs five times, the second, sixty. Daimonion is al

ways used in reference to possessions-see those passages where Jesus is said to have cast out devils—and it should be understood that the demons by which men were said to be possessed, were a very different order of beings from the Devil or Satan, properly so called.— No person is ever, in the New Testament, said to be possessed of ho diabolos the devil!

We recommend to those who wish to examine the subject further, Balfour's 2d Inquiry, Univ. Book of Ref.

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CHAPTER VI.

FORGIVENESS OF SINS.

NO WHERE in the inspired writings does such a phrase occur as forgiveness of punishment. The gospel forgiveness is always the forgiveness of Sins. Hence the punishment of sin is always represented as UNAVOIDABLE and CERTAIN !

The language of the Scriptures on this point is very explicit: "Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished." Prov. xi. i. "The soul that sinneth it shall die. But if the wicked turn from all his sins and do that which is lawful and right he shall surely live, he shall not die—IN HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS that he hath done he shall live." "Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous SHALL NOT deliver him in THE DAY of transgression; as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in THE DAY that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in THE DAY that he sinneth"! Ex. xviii. 20. xxxiii. 12. Thus, though God will forgive on a return of the transgressor to obedience, yet so long as he continues in transgression, he is inevitably subject to that condemnation or death, which is the just portion of the disobedient. Take other examples: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap," Gal. vi. 7. "Who will render to every man according to his deeds," Rom. ii. 6. "Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderests unto every man according to his deeds," Ps. lxii. 12. "For God shall

bring EVERY WORK into judgment, whether it be GOOD, or whether it be EVIL"! Eccl. xii. 14.