Identifier: antiuniversalist01prie (find matches)
Title: The anti-universalists, or history of the fallen angels of the scriptures..
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Priest, Joseph. (from old catalog)
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where wasthe propriety of his plea of mercy, for the mere lives of the So-domites—seeing they were so exceedingly wicked, as to havebecome a nuisance on the face of the earth—when he must haveknown that their death would be their eternal reformation andhappiness in another world. In the 19th chapter of Genesis, is found an account of twoangels rescuing Lot and his two daughters from ruin. But theproof that those two strangers whom it appears Lot—from thehospitableness of his disposition, rescued from being lodgers inthe street, were angels, or supernatural beings, is: that as thewicked men of Sodom beset the house of righteous Lot, they,the angels, struck them with blindness ; such power, we believe,is not conferred on mortals, so as to inflict blindness, or any otherdisorder, by invisible means. After this, some twenty five years had rolled away, when Isaactke ?oa of Abraham, had grown to mans estate; the Lord, itarp jars, required the sacrifice of this son to try the fealty of
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ANGELS OF THE SCRIPTURES. 95 Abrahams heart to God. But as he did not hesitate to do eventhis, nor delay by standing to reason the case in his own mind,and was about to deal the blow of death ; there suddenly washeard the cry of an angels voice, in the air above him, there onthe wild and spiry summit of Mount Moriah, saying, Abraham,Abraham, lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do any thingunto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thouhast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me. Now theproof that this angel was not a man, but a spirit, is, that Mosesstates, the angel of the Lord called to Abraham out of heaven,(See the Plate,) the atmosphere above, a place where men do notoften appear. Gen. xxii. 11,12. How it is that Universalists candeny the existence of supernatural angelic beings—as many ofthem do, and contend that the Scriptures do not justify the belief,and at the same time are acquainted with accounts those booksgive of such beings, is to us an unaccounta

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