Review of The Serpent Uncoiled: Or of the Full Length Portrait of Universalism

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Indiana State Journal Steam Press Print, 1848 - Serpent Uncoiled - 94 pages

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Page 37 - ... among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ...
Page 37 - ... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fulness of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him...
Page 36 - Christ; according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love ; having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved...
Page 29 - It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
Page 32 - tis the price of toil ; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it when he tempts the main, Where folly fights for kings, or dives for gain. The good man may be weak, be indolent : Nor is his claim to plenty, but content.
Page 38 - For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
Page 91 - I glanced my eye upon her fine countenance, beaming with intelligence, mingling pity and contempt grew in my bosom. After the first ceremonies, we sat for some time silent; at length I drew up a heavy sigh, and uttered a pathetic sentiment, relative to the deplorable condition of those, who live, and die in unbelief; and I concluded a violent declamation, by pronouncing, with great earnestness, He, that believeth not, shall be damned. "And pray, sir," said the young lady, with great sweetness, "Pray,...
Page 51 - What, then, is that subjection, with which all things must be subdued to Christ? I think it to be that with which we ourselves desire to be subdued to him ; and with which also the apostles and all the saints who have followed Christ have been subdued to him. For the very expression, subjected to Christ, denotes the salvation of those who are subjected : as David says, shall not my soul be subjected to God? for from him is my salvation.
Page 13 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 62 - Solomon's account in the text, — that, because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil.

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