of salvation will be swallowed up in that superior and immortal salvation which can never be diminished or cease. And so, when unbelief ceases, and perversion of soul ends, and the sinner gone astray is brought back to God, the condemnation of which these are the state or condition, will end also. For there can be no condemnation when unbelief and sin are destroyed-no more than there can be salvation where there is neither faith nor knowledge-hope nor fruition."

Our author's reasons for the existence of a personal devil, are about as conclusive as that of the old lady, who remarked that the existence of a devil was perfectly clear; else, how could men make a picture of him!

Mr. Hall argues thus: If because Judas was called a devil, and Peter Satan, there is therefore no other devil except Judas and Peter; then according to the same logic, because Moses was called a god, and Abraham lord, there is therefore no other Lord God except Abraham and Moses'!

'If'!-Ay, there's the difficulty! Do Universalists reason thus? Do they say there is no other devil except Judas and Peter? Let our author himself answer:

Thus according to Universalism we have divers kinds (i. e. many kinds) of devils-and he specifies eleven kinds himself; and then adds-they make out almost as many devils as there were frogs in Egypt”!— Comment is unnecessary!

The same logical hocus pocus is attempted on other premises: "If because God is said to perform many wonderful works, he is therefore a real being, and not a personification of a good principle; then according to the same logic the devil must be a real being and not a personification of an evil principle, for many wonderful works in the scriptures are ascribed to him"!

'According to the same logic'? Ay, truly: But whose logic is it? Not ours, most certainly. Who argues to the personality of God in this loose illogical manner?—

We presume our author may claim the originality of the idea, and no one will contest his title. But let us extend this marvellous logic a little further; and perhaps we shall be amused as well as instructed by its results. The proposition stands thus: 1st. Many wonderful works are attributed to God; therefore God is a real being. 2d. Many wonderful works are attributed to the devil; therefore the devil is a real being.-Argument extended.-1st. Many wonderful works are attributed to the evil passions of men; therefore the evil passions of men are real personal beings. 2d. Many wonderful works are attributed to the good passions of men; therefore the good passions of men are real personal beings. 3d. Many wonderful works are attributed to the fire and to the wind; therefore the fire and the wind are real personal beings!-The wind is said to have brought locusts upon Egypt, blown down Job's house, nearly shipwrecked the Saviour, caused Jonah to be cast into the sea, shipwrecked St. Paul, &c., &c. Now if the wind performing all these exploits, is not a real personal being, I defy a Campbellite to prove that God is a real being, and "the Bible anything more than a mere principle of humbuggery"! "According to this logic," our author is cut up secundem artem with his own sword!!

But, says Mr. Hall, "the best plan of testing a doctrine, is to substitute the definition for the word itself, and see what kind of sense it makes." Certainly; that is one way to test a doctrine; and as our author thinks it is the best way, he will doubtless have no objection to be tried by his own r le. For the word devil, satan, &c., we will substitute fallen angel: "Now the fallen angel was more subtle than any BEAST of the field

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 angels, 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 fallen 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 lusts 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