APPENDIX.

To the Reader who may be desirous of investigating farther, the subject discussed in the preceding pages, it may, perhaps, be useful to be acquainted with the names of the works which at different times have appeared upon it. I have, therefore, drawn out a list of the chief of those with which I am at present acquainted, to which I at first intended to have added some citations from the works of the more early Christian writers, in order to show, that "this opinion is not so strange and unusual, nor counted so absurd a tenet by the pious and learned of elder times, as it is by the generality of persons in the present day imagined to be:" but this could not have been done without a considerable enlargement of the volume, which bas already swelled to a bulk much beyond what was originally contemplated.

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In the early writings on this subject, as well as in some modern publications, there is much which appears to me to be false and inconclusive, both in the principles upon which the doctrine of Restoration is founded, and in the passages. Scripture which are cited to prove it; but in all of them there is much that is solid and excellent, and I believe I may venture to affirm, that there is not one contained in the present list, from the perusal of which the intelligent and pious will not derive both pleasure and improvement.

Origen is celebrated for having maintained and propagated the opinion, that the punishment of the wicked will be limited and corrective, and that they will be ultimately restored to purity and happiness. Clemens Alexandrinus, the master of Origen, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory Nyssenus, Sulpicius Serverus, Domitianus, bishop of Ancyra, and Facundus, appear to have entertained the same opinion.

In modern times, the works which have appeared on this subject are numerous. There is an ingenious piece written upon it in French, by a nobleman and minister of the court of the King of Prussia, entitled, Entretiens sur la Restitution Uni

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verselle de la Création; or, Conferences upon the Universal Restitution of the Creation, betwixt Dositheus and Theophilus.

In the second volume of "The Phoenix," or, "A Revival of Scarce and Valuable Pieces no where to be found but in the Closets of the Curious," a work published in London, in 1708, is an extraordinary paper on this subject. It is supposed to have been written by one Mr. Richardson, and was first printed in 1658. It is remarkable for its Scripture criticisms, which would be read with much interest in the present day. The piece is entitled, " Of the Torments of Hell; the Foundation and Pillars thereof discovered, searched, shaken, and removed. With infallible Proofs, that there is not to be a Punishment after this Life, for any to endure, that shall never end."

Dr. Henry More, in his Divine Dialogues, printed in the year 1668, speaks very favorably of this opinion.

Dr. Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, seems to incline to this opinion, though he speaks on the subject with much doubt. See his fourth volume of Sermons, p. 164.

There is a letter concerning the opinions of Origen, written by a Bishop of the Church of England, and printed in the year 1664, in which there are many strong and extremely well-written passages in favor of this opinion. See Preface to The Restoration of All Things. By Jeremy White.

The Restoration of All Things; or, a Vindication of the Grace and Goodness of God, to be manifested at last in the Recovery of his whole Creation, out of their Fall. By Jeremy White. London, 1712.

Dr. Newton, Bishop of Bristol, in his Dissertations in his Works, will be found an able and ardent advocate of this opinion.

The World Unmasked; or, the Philosopher the greatest Cheat. In twenty-four Dialogues, between Crito a Philosopher, Philo a Lawyer, and Erastus a Merchant. To which is added, the State of Souls separated from their Bodies. Being an Epistolary Treatise, wherein is proved, by a variety of Arguments, deduced from Holy Scripture, that the Punishments of the Wicked will not be Eternal, and all Objections against it solved. London, 1736.

An Essay on the Scheme and Conduct, Procedure and Ex

tent, of Man's Redemption, wherein is shown, from the Holy Scriptures, that this great Work is to be accomplished by a gradual Restoration of Man and Nature to their primitive State. By W, Worthington, A.M. London, 1748. 2d edition.

The Philosophical Principles of Natural and Revealed Religion, unfolded in a Geometrical order. By the Chevalier Ramsay. 2 vols. quarto. Vol. I. Book vi. Prop. lviii. London, 1751.

Universal Restitution; a Scripture Doctrine. This proved in several Letters, wrote on the Nature and Extent of Christ's Kingdom. Wherein the Scripture passages, falsely alleged in proof of the Eternity of Hell Torments, are truly translated and explained. By Mr. Stonehouse, Rector of Islington. London,

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The Mystery hid from Ages and Generations, made manifest by the Gospel Revelation; or, the Salvation of All Men, the grand thing aimed at in the Scheme of God, as opened in the New Testament Writings, and entrusted with Jesus Christ to bring into effect. By Charles Chauncy, D. D. of Boston in New England. London, 1784. Also, by the same Author, The Benevolence of the Deity considered. Boston, 1784.

An Humble Attempt to investigate and defend the Scripture Doctrine concerning the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. To which is added, Observations concerning the Mediation of Jesus Christ, in the various Dispensations of God the Father, and the final Issue of his Administration. By James Purves. Edinburgh, 1784. 2d edition.

Thoughts on the Divine Goodness, relating to the Government of Moral Agents, particularly displayed in Future Rewards and Punishments. Translated from the French of O. F. Petitpierre.

Observations on Man, his Frame, his Duty, and his Expectations. In Two Parts. By David Hartley, M.A. Johnson, London, 1791.

The Observations on Man is a work which does honor to human nature. One feels proud to belong to the same order of intelligences with the mind which could compose it. All in the first volume, which relates to the law of association, and to

the faculties of the mind, and the whole of the second volume, can never be perused without making the reader better acquainted with himself and with his duties, and more in love with his fellow-beings and with his Creator. That which, in the conclusion of the second volume, relates to the Final Happiness of all mankind is truly worthy of the philosopher, the philanthropist, and the Christian.

Natural and Revealed Religion explaining each other. In Two Essays. The first showing what Religion is Essential to Man. The second, the State of Souls after death, as discovered by Revelation. Harleian Miscellany. Quarto, vol. vi. p. 39, Octavo, vol. ii. p. 494. London, 1795.

The Universal Restoration, exhibited in a series of Dialogues between a Minister and his Friend. Wherein the most formidable Objections are stated, and fully answered. By Elhanan Winchester. 4th edition. Revised and Corrected, with Notes Critical and Explanatory. By W. Vidler. London, 1799.

Conversations on the Divine Government, showing that every thing is from God, and for good to all. By Theophilus Lindsey, M.A. Johnson, London, 1802.

Letters to Mr. Fuller on the Universal Restoration, with a statement of the Facts attending that Controversy, and some Strictures on Scrutator's Review. By W. Vidler. London, 1803.

An Essay on the Duration of a Future State of Punishments and Rewards. By John Simpson. London, 1803.

Eternity of Hell Torments Indefensible-An Essay on Future Punishment. By R. Wright. Eaton, London. 2d edition. Theological Disquisitions. 2 vols. By T. Cogan, M. D. Vol. 2d. p. 367. London. Cadell and Davies.

Discourses on Universal Restitution, delivered to the Society of Protestant Dissenters in Lewin's Mead, Bristol. By John Prior Estlin, LL. D. Longman, Hurst, Rees, &c. London, 1813.

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G. SMALLFIELD, Printer, Hackney.