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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d not come to an end at that time. Also, Rev. xx. 1,2: u AndI saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of thebottomless pit, (bottomless, or endless, because there is the placeof unending torments,) and a great chain in his hand: And helaid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, andSatan, and bound him (/See the Plate,) a thousand years,—du-ring which time will be the Millenium. See Eph. i. 21, forour final proof of the belief of the doctrine of a multitude of ordersand degrees among the angels of heaven. In that place, thewriter, who was St. Paul, speaks of the exaltation of the Son ofMan, after his resurrection, and says that he was set far aboveall principalities, power, might and dominion, and every nametin at is named, not only in this world, but also that which is tocome. By which we learn, that there are names designatingpowers, principalities, and dominions, as well in a world ofspirits, as in this ; which we think, proves the belief of the great
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ANGELS OF THE SCRIPTURES. 91 amount of intellectual variety among the angels of God, as atfirst created; notwithstanding, many, if not all Universalists,deny angelic existences, as mentioned in the Scriptures, thesame as did the Saducees, in the time of Christ; the Deists ofthat age ; and the most opposed to the introduction of true Chris-tianity : the same as all Universalists, in every age, have beenguilty of, like their true brethren above named: and will everbe, till they renounce their opinions as a people. We cannot however, condemn every one of this opinion, asDeists ; because there are some of that order, who appear to bein reality converted persons, and talk about religion, and the Sa-viour, the same as the other sects ; but such talk, and such con-version, never arose out of the true Universalist opinions; asthose opinions deny spiritual conversion, the Deity of Christ,his expiatory death, the real fall of Adam, the existence of abso-lute sin, or moral evil; which to deny, i

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