Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation
Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation
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>decree, is that he has inseparably connected the end with the
means by so constituting our natures, and so ordering his providence
that _sin, dissipation, anger,_ and revenge shall not only destroy
happiness, but shorten life, so certain as men pursue such a wretched
course. And that the opposite course of conduct shall not only
communicate happiness, but protract life so certain as they engage in
it.
Here then, my young friends, you may readily perceive how God punishes vice and rewards virtue. He does not do it by any abstract law, or arbitrary mode of procedure, but lie has in infinite wisdom interwoven, the whole in the very constitution of our natures, so that the wicked cannot go unpunished, nor the righteous unrewarded. To teach that man can indulge in vice, and yet escape its punishment by future repentance, is not only dangerous to the morals of society, but is a direct impeachment of the divine administration, as it must in such case, be defective. And to teach th
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