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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t she wasdoomed to become her own destroyer as well as that of her off-spring. This, were it the true state of the case, were as bad asthe fiction of Milton, who relates that death which came into be-ing in hell and was born there of sin, brought forth every hour arace of beings which he calls hell hounds, which howled as theycame forth, tearing the bowels of their mother death without pityor remorse, and without end. But when it is believed that a fourth being, known in Chris-tian theology as Satan, who beguiled the woman and was to bethe-object of this seeds vengeance, then there is a consistency, apropriety and wisdom manifest which is worthy the eternal God,and not otherwise. (/See the Plate.) The plate shows the Divine Being in the attitude of judgingthe culprits who had been engaged in the breach of his law giv-en to Adam and Eve in Paradise; also the grape-tree or vinewhich we believe to have been the forbidden fruit. In this place we will venture a few remarks on the manner of
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ANGELS OF THE SCRIPTURES. 239 Adam and Eves transgression, and of the forbidden tree; as somehave doubted whether it was literally a tree and its fruit whichwas forbidden; but rather that it was connubial enjoyment. Butthe folly of this notion appears from the manner in which thetransgression proceeded. Eve it appears, first and alone, ap-proached, plucked off and eat of the fruit of that tree, without theconcurrence or knowledge of Adam at all. Is it good sense to suppose God would have forbidden the veryand only means which himself had ordained in the creation ofnature, by which the earth was to be replenished by inhabitants,making his own work the occasion of sin and death ? Surely not.This would be to set God at variance with himself, his provi-dence at war with his wisdom and holiness; one kind of life,that of animal existence, at war with another kind of life, that ofmoral rectitude ; both of which were entirely essential to humanbeings and human happiness. There is no better wa

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