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S. fef:- r HALIFAX, N. S. PRINTED BY JAMES BOWES AND SONS 1861. aawBsaffliMyMiyiii^aiS ftj o.'ifr >| »"»«wJ .. a /v • 1 IB. ^ qi ca be re an th( 'M- ^ n ^M wiUhmm of th mtM ? Baptist Ministerial Conference "Wfwn n M-^"!'' ^"""'^ of some twentvfonr mZT!:, i • . Published m a tract tlio llttu ,r 1 r P S«s, and IS now before the public Tn othi wrirdrn?br?;-rrt't^har:""''-' ^-- fary to truth a«,l dishonoring lf'G?dm;h^w^ "T """• enter at onee on our work Th^' !■ ■ T"''* "" leoo^e of the Wicke^V^T^he Doctor::;' -L'^" ^''^' ""' p*ard''pr::onS:So';iiio''''i" "^ ''■ i^y™^ -"»" »» "c cu u,. we nna His answer in the Bible." Of this we are heartily dad fnr if fK.'a 0*0* x i. revelations of truth riven f,^LT *'t*'''* ^"tament, for tho announcmeuts to 1^" mey contSran'thT'"' T ?°^'» '"« the point now to be oonsiderel. 'TZC.llTiX::;,^, ^o" ' ■■■■%>v;v. --%cm^ J5 ''^,-f!f. '■ '*i'"?%i^^^afefe«^rtNitjjejjf j.'»j-'Ktj*. -Mii*-aiir4A«yMte-., -^T-ff^- 3 WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE WICKED? light, and no further developement is to be expected. I hnld If preterable, therefore, m pursuing the investigation on which we have now entered, to appeal, for the most part, to the authority of the New lestament. Illustrationa may be gathered from other portions of the Word of God; hot the clear and decisive statement* i)y which the controversy is to be settled, must necessarily besought 1" the book of the new dispensation. By adopting this course we shall be spared the trouble of correcting' the numerous misap- prehensions that prevail respecting the meaning of certain passages in the Psalms and the Projihets, which are commonly adduced' bv the advocates of error." ^ This position of the Doctor's we must object to, fo'* if " God o»7y can answer " the question under consideration, we clahn tor Him the right to speak by whom He pleases, whether by xyloses, tl>e Prophets, or the sweet Singer of Israel. "Holy men of old spake as they were moved by the Holy Spirit," and' t.ieir testimony is just as valid as that of Paul, Peter, or any other of the writers under the " new dispensation f" and as to- the Doctor's plea that he shall be »' spared the trouble of correct- ing the numerous misapprehensions that prevail respecting the- mcamngof certain passages in the Psalms and the Prophets, which are commonly adduced by the advocates of error," let him not for a moment urge it. If he is " set for the defence of i;he (rospel, let him tfr bis task manfully, and "shun not ta declare the whole counsel of God " on this important question. It men do not understand the ''meaning'" of the passacres referred to, so much more need is there that he should let liis light shine on those very tezts ! Who can say but that he may be the honored instmrnent of enlightening the understanding of - those " advocates of error," and bringing them to the knowledge ot the truth ! ! It has been the case in al) past time that lione?t, and even j)ious men, have unwittingly advocated error,— and so perhaps, at the present. Convince such men of their enor and they will turn from it ; denounce and ridicule them, and you may confirm them in it. The Doctor add« :— - "Let us place ourselves at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and listen to His words, and to the words of Hrs servants, who wrote under the inspiration of the promised Spirit." To this we add our hearty Amen, merely suggesting that " whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our eammg," and that "all Scripture is given by inspiration of trod, and %% profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for /^ T* h REVIEW OF DR. CRAMP. 3 m?^truction ii, righfcousness, that the man of God may he perfect, thorounjhly furnished unto all sjood works." We may, therefore, safely connect the words of ^Fosch, the Propliets, and Pnalmist with those of Jenm and His A postles, and thoir imiied testimony will settle the point at issue. The Doctor continues : — " Suppose, now, that some individual, unacquainted with the dis- putes that have arisen among Christians, were to take up the New Icstamont with a view to ascertain the purposes of God with regard to the final destiny of mankind, to what conclusion would he come ? Would he not infer, naturally and necessarily, that there is no hope for those who die in a state of ungodliness ? How- ever unwilling he might be to entertain the thought, and however repugnant it might be to his benevolent feelings, would he not be compelled to confess that it is the obvious teaching of our Lord and His Apostles ?" Without (V)ubt any unbiassed reader of the New Testament would < finally . we be^ at issue. but "\\ or, r.u tiio i)<. ihe conclusion that there was no hope for the .nt, *%r t':dre is none set forth in that book ; but re-m ,e Doctor that this is not the real point quest :s not, Will the wicked be punished ? I bee e oJ the Wicked?" i. e., will they die, 'f»f < '■ ho "annihilated:" or will they suffer eisrnal tormer,is~l. always dying, and never dead — ever burn- nig, and never burned ; Thiji is tlie point, and let every reader ^•ive It his undivided attention ; and if the Doctor is pleased to leave his work to give chase to our Universalist friends, or the V'rench Revolutionists, wait patiently unfil ho returns to the |)ursuit of his real object. He continues : — "Would such a reader dream of anything else? Could he imagine that the awful words of the holy volume can bear any interpretation differing materially from that which is found to pre- vail among the vast majority of Christians P" We conclude that "such a reader" would "imagine" it better to take the " clear and decisive statements " of the Word of God as they stand, rather than adopt the blasphemous intei- ])retation suggested by Dr. Benson, and mainly approved by tl e "v;ast majority" of orthodox interpreters! Listen to him: " God is present in hell in His infinite justice and almighty wrath, as an unfathomable sea of liquid fire, where the wicked must drink in everlasting torture. The presence of God in His vengeance scatters darkness and woe through the dreary region? I m WHAT WILL DlitOME OP THE WICKED ? of misery As Iloavcn would ho. no Heaven if find d;.l „„. there ,1 ,,,fcy Il,s wrafh. It is the prcscneo of God whehrive! .everything virtue and efScacy-without which thctT-Sn be no .fe. «« «ns,b, ,ty, no p„„er. God is therefore Himself nreVnt Bepend on it, Poctor, no unprejudiced render of the T^Jf.ln fn rpfence to the term "annihilation," we wish it und^r- stood ^tbat.^^ase who hold that " Death is the wages of sin "as :M sajrs,, i»^>.^ad of eternal life in torment, as men say. do not une ^ m speakk^ of the final punishment of the wicked, nor has the Doctor a r#i to make such free use of it when speaking of ^fieir views. Oi^-daviour was pleased, on a certain occasion to turn water into w%; and had He been pleased to change the wine liiUJk to water fhe^d would have been no annihilation in the et^m, but a simple eh^ij^.'- of the elements. So God created man, dignified man, pni^i ihe dust of the earth; and should Ho bo pleased to turn him bikk to his mother element none should .^peak of the act as annihilafion. It would be simply the exccu- ,^'{Vn of ihe sentence. " Dust^ thou art, and unto dvst shalt fj^iW RCTURN." Now fof tjhe Poctor to talk of such a one ^^c^^moj^ punishment altogethet- " seems to us very unreason- .able. ihe laws of thie, and perhaps of every other oountiy •^v-- •■^^ Itw REVIEW OF DH. CRAMP. 5 isount dea^h as tlie greatest punishment that can he inflicted ; and wo apprehend that the Doctor wouhl question the s.-mity of him who HhouM affirm of a criminal that had heen hun- by the neck untd ho was rfca«f, dead, DEAD, that he had escaped punisV ment altogether ! Neither does the law look to the denrreo of pam inflicted as tho punishment : it is the depriving the crim/nal ot his life that, ni the eye of the law, constitutes the punishmen\ Jlow, M.on, can the Doctor reasonably think tliat deprivin-.' a man of e/m^a/ /(/•(', with all its glorious realities, is permir. ting the rebel to " oscapo punisbment altogether ?" He con- tinues : — "Surely thoughtg of this kind would be far from him Fe wouhl see no escape for an impenitent transfrrossor. He xci\^\ t wish It were not so, but stern impartiality would forbid any differ- ^U conclusion. In fact, nobody thinks at first of explaining the Jvew lestament otherwise than in agreement with the generally received doctrine." *' ""^^"'v If the Doctor can cite us an instance of an unprejudiced reader of tho Bd)]e coming to a conclusion in " agreement with the generally received doctrine," his remark wTll have some point ; otherwise, it is a pure assumption. For our i^art, we cannot see how such an one could conceive the idea of eiernoJ torment for the wicked when God has never said a word about \i\ As to " explaining "' the " clear and decisive statements " of the Word of God 11 reference to the punishment of the wicked,^ it is clearly a work of supererogation better befittln-^- a Romish Priest than a Protestant divine. Let the Doctor adhere to the statement he has advanced, "God onhi can answer, for He only knows." This is his own position, and, if correct, man has nothing to do with '' explaini,ff'' what the Deity alone comprehends. There are " clear and decisive state- ments by which the controversy is to be settled;" let the Doctor abide their decision. He continues : — " And here let me offer a remark to which, in my opinion, con- siderable imj.ortance is to be attached. It is to be carefully noted that God's book is a plain book ; it is indeed as ' hij^h as heaven ' and • deep as hell,' and contains lepresentations which the miVht- ipst minda cannot comp.'-ehend ; but in reference to those truths the right knowledge of which is essential to our hapniness and safety, it may be affirmed without fear of contradiction that the sajnngs of the Bible are clear and easy to be understood. Araous these are the declarations ot the inspired writers respecting the -r-im- 6 WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE WlfKEI) ? lh7wStHl f alUhn T- ""'' '' ''I V'"'^^?"^ ^^^ remediless woe of mt wicReU, It uU the while no 8u:h doctrine is there ?" nro^^Ll^v"' ■^';'^'''' thoy have l.eon accnstomecl to hecr it p 0.1 hod frc.m infancy and learned to take the •' explanation " • ^Jr^^ 1 "' ' 1 • ;^'"';'^^^'"" «f t''«ir bclien instead of the oxs themselves wh:ch. the Doctor truly affirms, arc " cle.•.r fo; uTi? '« '' "»"l«7tood " because the l^^ok in winch they an- t1 h .d ''7/'^''' .^'^'^■-' I I'^F to convince the Doctor It never occurred to you, Doctor, as - passin- strange that n n y-n.ne out of a hundred " of Roman dtholic reader^ of The wor hi^nf Ihn V-^ ^^'"Z ^'""^ "-""^^^^>'«^«»^1 it as teaching the d^n\V! ■^'" ^'"T' ^'"'-'^^y absolution, prayers for, tb(. trhh-n- 'T:.^"''f J"'*^' ^^^ '^" "'^" the while^,o\such doc ^ ne s found there V" or, that the great majority of professin<. t e whi o 'T^ \' «s.teaching .;,r/»W/>.^ for baptism, if " ^11 the whde no such doctrnie is found there ?- Don't you think -Doctor, that ,t is the '« explanation " they have iLd h" '; TheD.;t";:^:LSfr" "^^^^'^^ «nder consideration. f'hZ"'' r^''"*, "'^*^'^ ^^'t' °^ ^^e case ? Thev ars brieflv the.e wilhnn^v,-,,' 8° .■'»" ."wlasling i)uiii6hment • has been held TilV K ^ ^^ "n.formity, by persons of all classes and ncrsirn J!,.;! ; "'^^^"^^ irom one another on other subiects there is d n th'tr r of T""^^- ''■'-' *^"^^ ^t ^" Christian wlitings a ao.n the stxeam^of tune from tne earliest perind to the pr?ser,t «,;.« *!, . ^"" exceptions too ir-ionsiderablu to dpHPrvp mo e than a passing notice, the irremediable doom of the imneni tent^^transgressor has been taught ' every where, always, and by" mmrwm hat niuot} •- !umc — lliiit less woe of to hecr it h nation " jad of the ro "ele.-'r Ii thoy jiH' he Doctor proportion lioir boliof ^elf. H:is iv.T-e that crs s')f tho ching thu I's for. th(! ?nch tloc- 3rofessin2 in book," , if "all •u think, 5ed their firu; that deration. fly these. ties, and her, and m. But isturbed )enitent. !en held persua- 1 Catho- and the Tiinians. there is 'ings all present deserve impeni- and by EEVIEW OP DH. CRAMP. 1 Tlio Poctor's off again bunting wp arguments for the over- throw of onv Universali.'t friends, for they are the only elasb of believers in the Bible, in tbis country, that deny what tho Doctor brings such a weight of authority to prove, viz., the future puniwhment of the wicked ; but even if all this array of sects had, and Htill did maintain the eternal torment theory, it would matter nothing to us : the Doctor has taken the right position, 'iz., (5od anli/ knows — '* No one but Ood Himi^lf can answer this question." — "He has answered it; we find hi» answer in the Bible." Let us, then, to " the law and the testi- mony ;" if these denominations speak not aeeoiding to that it is " because there is no light in them." If they de speak in har- mony with it, we perfectly agree. The Doctor continues : — " It may not lie amiss to observi -,o, that the final punishment of the wicked found a place even ih i*agan systems. In some form or other it is interwoven with them all. This might be abundantly proved by quotations froin the best autlioritiefl. And it is not imreasonuhle to suppose that, hke the doctrine of sin, and of the necessity of atonement, it has been handed down from genera- tion to generation as a relic of primeval truth, though grievouslv distorted and disfigured, Enoch, the seventh from Adam, '.:-c- claimed it, (Jude 14, 15) ; and whence was it obtained by him unless by revelations from Heaven, or by communication from our first parents, to whom it had been revealed ?" It 18 doubtless true that the doctrine of future punishment found a place in Pogan systems, and also that many of the ahsurd notions in reference to the present existence of a place of torment, purgatoiy, &e,, deecended from them to tie apostate Church of Home, and thence to the popular churches of this day. That Enoch received an intimation from Adam that God would punish sin we need not doubt, for this haJ been revealed to him, and tlie punishment itself pointed out. — ' ' Sin is thb transgres- sion of the law." God's law to 4dan'. wa^;, in reference to a certain trae, " Thou shall not eat of it.^^ The penalty .annexed to the transgress^,.' of this law was "DEATH." Doubtless Enoch was well informed on this point, and expected the coming of the Son of Man to " gather His wheat into the garner," and "Burn up tie cuaff with unquenchable fire." The Doctor continues : — " There is another consideration which is particularly deserving your notice. Among the minority of professing Christians, by whom the everlasting punishment of the wicked is in the present ■MM .dMK M ■i I ■ 8 WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE WICKED ? day denied, there is a singular diversity of opinion : some hold that death is extinction of being, and therefore that the wicked will he annihilated when they die ; others maintain that they will be raised again at the last day, receive sentence at the iihal judgment, and then be annihilated. Others teach that annihilation will be precec.'d by punishment, varying in intensity and length according to the degree of crime. Others venture to assert that after sufficient purifying by pain they will be restored. These varieties, ana the frequent change of sentiment among those who maintain Uiem, exhibit a striking contrast to the uniform doctrine of the Church in general." If the Doctor is to this day ignorant of the fact that those who hold that the "Wages of sin is Death," and Univ^rpalists, who deny future punishment altogether, of admit a restoration irom It, are disfiuct classes of Christians, we now inform him of that fact. If he is not ignorant, then we have to say to him that no man sitting at the feet of Jesus learns there to misrepre- sent his brethren. And as to the diversity of opinions exis5n REVIEW OP DR. CRAMP. » some hold wicked will ley will be judgment, ion will be 1 according that after e varieties,. ) maintain fine of the those who v^rsalists, restoration ra him of I J to him misrepre- 5 existing ame may point or [d up this Churches :s unifor- Lh them, id if this ig it are Church ! rgument, ^ord will ments of B wicked lation of XV. 41); 3f teeth,' e is not -uke xiii. ?6) ; that inguish,' e of the ■,' (Jude burneth ley shall xxi. 6.), These expressions assure us that inconceivable misery wiir follow a- life of disobedience to God ; that the misery will commence imme- diately after death ; and that there will be no escape from it. And they are the words of our Lord and His Apostles, which 'cannot pass away.' " Well, now, Doctor, are you not ashamed to present this gar- bled mass as the '■^ clear and decisive statements hy which tlte controversy is to he settled f- Really, Doctor, we shall be obliged to take this all apart to see v,^hat 't will look like when standing in its proper connection. Yaur first quotation is from- Mark ix. 45 : "If thy foot offend thee, cut it off; it is better for tliee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to bo cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched." Now,. Doctor, we wish to propound a fbw questions in reference to this text, and will take the liberty to answer them in your name ; and if we answer incorrectly, shall be happy to be corrected. 1. What is the original word which is here translated kein Dr. G. It is Gehenna. 2. Will you please give us the origin of this word ? Dr. G. I will with pleasure. "It is not a Greek word ; it does not occur in any classic author ; it is merely the Grecian, mode of spelling the Hebrew words which are translated ' the valley of Hinnom.' Pr.ikhurst considers that as the Soptujigint trnnslate, or rather spell in Greek letters, without translating gee or gai, a valley, and Hinnoni, a man's name, in Josh, iviii. 16, by Gaihenna, so the Gehenna of the New Testament is in like manner a corruption of the same Hebrew words, Gee, a valley^ and Hinnom, the person who was once the possessor of it ; so we may consider the word as Hebrew, with nothing of Greek about it except the spelling." 3. Has the word been generally translated in the diffcent versions ? Dr. G. It has not. " It is seldom translated in the foreign versions." 4. Is there a general agreement as to the origin of the word ? Dr. G, There is. " Stuart, Clark, Schleusner, and all critics are agreed as to its origin." 5. Is not Sheol the only word iu Hebrew translated by hem Dr. G. It is. 10 WHAT WILL BECO^re OF THE WICKED ? vJi' "^^ y^""* authority, then, is Gehenna, bein^ simply a eor niptjoo of two Hebro. .ords, Gee and mnnoCZrtrZ ■^^. O. I cannot say. lohntorlw^fw' '^ ''f'^^ of Hinnom was a delightful vale ^esemtion' 'o7L°fl ^"'''''' i'^"" l^"""'^" «"« "^d' a place of tieseerjt on, of loat i.ng and horror. 2 Kin^s xxiii. 10 ^'■^- "It does seem to be so." time ? ' ''^''' ^^'^''' ^"^ ^^^^^ ^''-^"^3^ ^««d i« o^r Saviour'^ «. ^r ^' " ^^/ receptacle for every species of filth as woll .a he ca^asses of animals and dead boclies of malefocL ? " lu. vvoula not such a mass of animal matter 1)« lltnl^ * breeci ^aonns, putrefaction, and pestilence 1 ' ^'^'^^ ^ w /'v? > " T""^*^ '"'^^^^' ^"^1 to avert the dan-^er 'con 7i -^Tr ""''" ^'"P* ^"^'"'"S '» the valley." ° '''" J wormstn 21:4^^ ^^ ''' ''''''' '' ''' ^^^ ^^ ^^ -Or. (7. Its utter consumption ! meni? '^'''''^ ^^ Sood orthodoji authority for the above 8tate- I simply a eor- . thus traii.s- 1, and what ightful vale le south-east sy were the 1. 2 Kings icrifiees ami ; Jeremiafi I, an abomi- rs derive it 9se horrible who wei-e s a place of 10. het, nor the LAUGHTER ; tTeremiuh IS -named rt ■ a place of le Creator Saviour'-g ^b, as well ^ors ? likely to ger 'con- on of fire >V8 state- REVIEW OF DR. CRAMP. 11 Dr. C. " Certainly; you may find them in 'Home's Tntnj- duction,' vol. 2, page 39.'" 13. You have said, Doctor, that the miseries of the wicked will " commence immediately after death." Do you really think that they go directly into Gehenna? Dr. C. I cannot say that I do. 14. In view of the fact that " the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea;" that " the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the peo- ple of the saints of the Most High ; that the will of God '• will be done in earth as it is done in heaven;'^ that this valley is within the limits of that land that God gave to Abraham and his seed for an ''everlasting possession," can you tliink that they will ever go there to suffer toiment as long as G od lives ? Dr. C. Why, no, not exactly there ; but — but — 15. Allow me to interrupt yon, Doctor, and inquire for what purpose you quoted that text ? Was it not to show what will become of the wicked ? Dr. C. I nmst admit that it was. It has always been one of our strongest proof-texts, and I — I — perhaps it is an emhleni of hell. 16. If so, you have no authority for calling it hell itself, and publishing from pulpit and press that God designs tormenting men, women and children in it as long as eternity endures I " Kn emblem of hell ! Pray tell, us, Doctor, how many times this word occurs in the original Scriptures. Dr. C. I must confess it does not once occur in Hebrew or Greek. 17. Then God has iiever, in all his revelations to the chil- dren of men, mentioned hell once? One would have supposed, by the frequency and fervour with which it is uttered from pulpit and press, that it was part and parcel of the "everlasting gos- pel," and just as indispensable as the " inheritance of the saints !" Pray, come from ? Dr. C. " It is of Saxon origin. Dr. Clark says: "Hell comes from the Saxon helan, to cover or hide." 18. This being its origin and import, how dare you, putting such a theological significance to it as you do, place it in the mouth of the Almighty, and make Him say that He will torment, the wicked in it " forever and ever ?" where did a word of such awful significance B ''*'»'»it»mmiiimjimmmmm 1t> WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE WICKED ? DKATii." M'e believo H.;, x.wi^ 77 , '^ "the second please inform us how inanv tirno. tL/n T?) ^' '^'^* y^^^ /««? ^' ""^ "'™ "'^o' '^""^l-'^d !.y any other word but thr^'ilfes, ^''' '' '' '™''''""^ ^"^'^ *'rty times, and;,* occ™ in^re^S "■?'/''"*''°;"- '!»>«« that the word sheol us how oarlraSoL te-^ Z' r*"!; '!'" y"" P'^"^'' i"f'™ time,,, that fie meant t ;t! J ^J"'' *'"'* »*«»; sixtj-foar instanees, the ffro^^^t frtv nftf ' / ""'""'" '» 'Wrty-one tliree V ^ "'"^^ °""'™' ="><" " P'< in the remaining f'>'' %rJ "T"^ ""°™ y™ ™ tW' point. ■• Mden my ;w'°t|,r„ "'!' '^' ,*»' ^'™'' »' ""e „f the will not en™r:;;h too mth 11" » ' ^"^.'^ '"'" ' »»' 'f it be pleased if youTouW rform^?"?™'' ""'' P?"™""' "'^ »'«"'W is used i„ the!vewT tome" -1 °^'' "'""^ ' *" ''™ *"'' is translated. ^'"'">™™'. and from what original words it trafsktS from'cl™ "l,^.\''"""-1 '" ""' ^"^^"^'"S text,, i, New Testament_t« ; "''t°1n'""oi™ ""!"^^""'« ^^^"^ Mark ix. 43 45 an 47 T T' "' f ^?' """■ »■ ^^iii- 15; following p2a.es are fotd fh" T ^' .'^'"'"^' '"• 6- I» «>o i» translated £ /Jrfi"tt „*"''? '" "''''='' "'o 'orm M New Testament™ M^t' J 2^ occurs «&„«„ti„es in the Greek Acts ii. 27, SI c^. ^s'i r.'% ^it' 'it''-, ^"', '^^ by arave 1 Cor xv ^^^ '^u \ 17,' " ^* '^ translated is ft-om 7l.ryan'a.7 wil, ^ T '^'^^ "' ^""""^ ^ Peter ii. 4. Testament ' ""^^'^^ '"'"'' ^"^^ «»«« ^^ the Greek Ne^ tra|atintLltt^^^^^^^ ^^ *^ the propriety of ^r. a They ,re not. '« As to the word hades,- says Dr. ")4«"S*" "lake of fire . xxi. 8. ' words lest lis us '-rery TFIB SECOND 1 everything )r, will you i in the Old Bd? Testament, r word but is, and pit word sheol 3ase inform '/ sixty-four thirty-one remaining no of the But if it we should > term hell 1 words it : texts, is the Greek xxiii. 16; In the term hell he Grreek xvi. 23 ; ranslated iter ii. 4, oek New priety of says Dr. HiiiM REVIEW C* Dll. CitAMI*. l;J t'anpbell on the Gospels, diss. 6, "in iny judgment it ought never to be rendered HELL ; at least, in the sense wherein that word is now universally understood by Christians. In the Old Testament the corresponding word is sheol, which signifies the state of the dead in general, without regard to the goodness or badness Of the persons, their happiness or inisery. The state of the dead is alv ays represented under those figures which sug- gest something dreadful, dark and silent, abort which the most prying eye and listening ear can acquire no information. The term hades is well adapted tb express the idea. To this the word Hp:ll, in its primitive signijication, perfectly correi- ponded'-~hv at first it denoted oNLi' what was secret or con- cealed." Dr. Clark says, oh Matt. xi. 23 : " The word hell, used in the common translatibn, conveys now an improper meaning of the original ^ord — because hell is only used to signify the ] lacd of tlie datnned ; btit the word hell comes fiom the Auglo-SaxoHj helo'i,, to Cover." Dr. LigUfbot says, that in no author^ sacred or profane, does it sigtiify a place of torment. 24. Does the hndes of the Greek correspond with the sheol of the HebreWi Doctor ? Dr. G. I think sOj pretty nearly • for in the "Greek Sep- duagint, the version in use ih our Saviour's time, sheol is ren- dered hades, the unseen, sixty times oUt of sixty-three, twice by thanutos (death), and once by buthros (pit)." 25. Thank you. Doctor, for your information. We shall ■endeavOT to keep in mind, yf^n we rend the passages where hell is translated from Gehenna, that this place was once owned by ^he sons of Hinnom, and is at present claimed by the Turks ; and that all that can be made of it, in a theological point of view, is, that it was in the Saviour's time an emblem of UTTER DESTRUCTION I And when we read those texts in which the term hell is trans- lated from hades, we shall bear in mind that instead of its being a place of torment for 'the wicked, it means the state of the DEAD — the unseen world — -a covered or concealed place about which man can know nothing, because God has revealed nothing concerning it I The next " statement of fche Word of God" which the Doc- tor adduces is found in Matt, xxiii. 33 : " Ye serpents, ye gene- ration of vipers, how can ye escape tlie damnation of hell"-— Gehenna. US- I 1 i WHAT WILL MCOME OP THE WICKED ? out doubt, of Qcnera/ nnuVuJ;. ■! ? " ^- ^'"'^ ''''' With- tl.e wicked As X Docn M^^^^^ '•^^^^^•^, ^« ^^e final doom of tVo.n the passage w supn e^t^^^^ " everlasn:, fre " lettioBectes werp tittim*?.- t. ^'■^rnci pre. Jude 7. wi.orc they »to:dir:„r;ri rs"' r,.i"r i^'-^.^jt v..i) of the doctrine of '• «JLT t&Z^"' -'poaks (Hob. ju'lgment. Koc, the Doctor «,ppo4 fct in'. '''"^Tl^ contmue forever ? The term PfPm.fl! ""","'« J"'lgment will .•.M'.-eases a«™.te. ra^ af Iri; " =^>• >■!' ju.%ment to that of a Se court h,r [""^p^Pf^' &»"' 1'*= u.ent on us there is no ^^Z u- ' • . "''™ ^'""l P^s^^** J^Jg- character and eon nuen ir S„ ?,.''"''«'?°"'^ '^ "'"''«' '" ''» If men set fire to on? bu" d „™ 1 ^ «'«';ta»y or eternal fire. Imt siionld God rain fire frZl' '^ "'" '"''P "»'' 1™""'' " ! on Sodon, an G",l™h n^ ,r™ °" 'i™' "' ""» He did accomplish its work of d:.t™ctCl?"" '1"™/' "' '' """'d instances just noticed At •' T, ^V' '''^"''^"■' ''" "> «■« T.OKD of Hosts that It «l,nii 1 "V'"" iHJiM UP, saith the Are .nay Top off h branch I? T "^''l.erroot nor branch." ^m;^o.^/' they ZSrirt^'' ^^ • ^"'"^*^ "P ^^^^ «^<^ them! ''BuVuVreh ff ^*^''' '' "? ^^^'^^^' Pr^"^'«e^ -oura up the chaff with unquenchable fire " and it ' 1 mm^ "-T-J SSfW%.. :«'.5*t.. KEVIEW OF DR. CRAMPr 15 TV ill appear no more. " Bind the tares in bundles," and hum them, and they will disappear forever. The next item quoted by the Doctor is from Matt. xxil. 13. Tt has reference to a guest who appeared at a wedding ceremony without a suitable garment, and on being questioned in reference to it was "speechless." " Then said the king to the servants, ]>ind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast kim into outer darkness — there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." We can hardly admire the Doctor's candor when he takes such a passage as this to eke out his eternal torment theory with, — for that this is what he aims at is but too apparent. The next quotation is, "For the worm dieth not, and the fire i.s not quenched," This the Doctor gives as a reason why there shall be "weeping and gnashing of teeth." Now that God ever designed that these sentences should be thiis coupled t(»gether we cannot for- a moment suppose or alk)w. The last quotation will, according to the Scriptures, have its fulfilment on the "carcasses" of wicked men, (see Isaiah xlvi. 24) ; and it should be borne in mind that the term " carcass " is never, by any of the sacred writers, applied to living human beings, except it be prospectively ; therefore, to represent the " weeping and gnashing of teeth " as being caused by the fire and worm of (Johenna, and these to be continued forever, is, to our minds, a fjjross perversion of the Scriptures ; to present them as the fair • "statements of the "VVoi-d of God" is but little short of blas- phemy ! That there will be " weeping and gnashing of teeth " among the wicked in view of the fact that they have lost eternal life and everlasting inheritance, and that death, eternal death, is before them, is doubtless true ; but that does not constitute their punishment, nor do such quotations answer the question, " What will become of the wicked V" The individual who is condemned to death by the laws of his country may weep and gnash his teeth in view of what he has lost and what he is to suffer, but that does not constitute his punishment. His sentence is, that he shall be hung by the neck until he iis DEAD ; the "weeping and gnashing of teeth " may be concomitants, but they are not tlio punishment itself. So with the wicked at last : they may weep and lament in view of the salvation they have slighted, and the terrible doom that awaits them ; but " Sin, when it is fin- ished, bringeth forth DEATH:" this is the "wages of sin," They have " sown to the flesh, and will of the flesh reap corrup- tion;" yea, they shall "UTTERLY PERISH in their own corruption !^' '-■mtu 16 WHAT WILL B!BCOMB OJ" THE WICKED ? The Doctor's next qMotation is from Luke xiii. 6. He mu^t have quoted th.. for the benefit of such as never read the con- TL ,^°frS*^^ ^''"^ "perish- out of such a connection, to piove h,s theory seems, to us. childish ; to represent it as ino T/mI. nr/-'*-^'''''r ^^t^'nents by which the tjontroversy klltl !;S ^^ '" s-mply absurd ! A tower in Siloam fell and nni h f^t"'"' P"''""'' ^^' ?^^^'^' '"l"'''^^ ^f His hearers sup- pose that they were sinners above all men that dwelt at Jerusl lem . He assures them they were not ; *' I tell vou nav - but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish." J^ow the proper apphcation of this text, according to the Doctor's theory, is th s These men that were crushed to ieath by the fall of this tower were not smners above all men that dwelt at Jerusalem ; but .Tfrrl\'T''^^ yo shall alliikewise pkrish, I e be KEPT ALIVE IN HELL TORMENTS FOREVER l' Shame on IZ J' ^'''VrH? "^ ^^"^'' arguments than these to sup- .port your theory ? W, I you pervert the woi-ds of Jesus Chi-i^ liimseif, to make a libel against his own character? ihe next quotation is from John iii. 16. Hear the entire verse : '^ He that believeth on the Son hath everlastingTfe and ho that believeth not the Son SHALL NOT SEE LIFE but • the wrath of God abideth on him." The Doctor trit La part of this text, to prove that men DO SEE LIFE onlv It is a mserabe one in hell ! ! Still he is not without prec'edZ, for i? occurred some SIX thousand years ago that God said to our first parents that, sho^^ tree, they should bLRELY DIB" The serpent flatly contradicted this state- ment, saying, " YE SHALL NOT SURELY DIE " We have been accustomed to consider the serpent as the father of lies; but It IS barely possible that he had in mmd Dr Cramp s theory, r e that the death that wa.3 pronounced against them was "A DEATH THAT NEVER DIES " and that m hell torments they would be always dying and ^«Y/fd ; and so, by making this mental reservation, he would clear himself of the charge of falsehood ! ! It is true some 'advocate of error " might suggest that a "death that ^emrdies^ would be equivalent to A LIFE THAT NEVER LlVEb; butif such should be the case, just raise the cry of m^ddogff and no one, of the faithful at least, will pay atten- tion to the suggestion. ^ ^ The Doctor continues his quotations, the next in order of which. ,s from R^m. ii. 9-: - Tribulation and anguish upon every beii lati . He muj>t ead the con- mncction, to 3nt it as one tjontroversy )am fell and hearers sup- t at Jerusa- nay ; but, ' the proper •ry, is this : this tower alem ; but, be KPJPT Shame on lese to sup- sus Chnsfc the entire T, life ; and .IFE, but • is, from a )nly it is a le«t, for it » our first ey should this state- E." We ;he father nfftd Dr. onounced DIES," ying and ition, he t is true 3ath that NEVEIl e cry of ly atten- order of an every REVIEW OF DR. CRAMP. 17 soul of man that doeth evil of the Jew first, and also of tlic Gen- tile. " This is all correct, and will doubtless have its perfect fulfilment, but does not answer the question, "What will become of the wicked?" " Tribulation and anguish" will • doubtless be ccmcomitants of the punishment, but not the thing itself We might speak of a ship's crew who, as they were being dragged into the foaming breakers, suffered great " tribu- lation and anguish;" but if we spoke of what became of them we might have to say that they perished in the sea. So those wao come to the end of the broad way that leads to " DE- STRUCTION" will doubtless have "tribulation and anguish;" but if we inquire what becomes of them, the answer will be, " AVhosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire," * * * which is "THE SEC<>ND di:ath!" The Doctor's next quotation is from 2 Thes. i. 9. Paul, speaking of those who " Obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus' Christ," says :— " Who shall ha punished with E7ERLASTINa DESTRUCTION from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power." According to Dr. Benson, they will be punished with everlasting preservation in His presence. He (Dr. B.) says :— " God is present in hell in His infinite justice and Almighty wr.ith, as an unfiithoma'Je sea of liquid fire, where the wicked must drink in everlasting torture, &c." Such are the blas})hemous contradictions of a heartless theory. If we are to be saved or lost by the plain statements of the Word of God, why not abide by them ? Why, for the sake of building up the God-dishonoring theory of eternal torment, will men twist and pervert tlie declarations of Holy Writ, not one of wliich gives the slightest countenance to the horrible dogma? 2 Thes. i. 9 does not tead-h that torment will be the punishment of the wicked, but " destkuction," from which there will be no redemption. The next quotation is from Jude 13, spoken of men who are represented as " raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own sliame ; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever." No doubt this is the doom of wicked men. To be destroyed with ''everlasting destruction,''^ ''burned up root and branch,''' " burned up with unquenchahle fire,'* " ut- terbj perish in their otin corruption," " be no more," " be as though they had not been," "consume into smoke," "be cast into the lake of fire," sufiTer the "second death," will surely 18 WHAT WILL BECOME OF THE WICKED ? t ! le as blacik and dark a destiny as language could well express, llie J>o(-tor8 next quotation is a mixed up statement from Kev. XX 10, and xxi. 8. Ti.e llevelator says : " ahe fea.ful and unbelieving, and the al.ominnl.le, and murderers, and wliore- inongcrs, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, .hall have their part m the lake whicli burneth with fire and brimstone, whrh IS Till SECOND DEATH." The Doctor adds! Whore they shall be Uornicnled dfry and night forever and ever W ho. Doctor? Why, evidently the wickcMl generally, of whom you had prevMoa.Jy been siM3aking. How does the text read i ''And t ,e DEVIL that deceived them was cast into the pphptti't '^»'"'«tonc where the BEAST and FALSE , ,} ;!'■''' ^"*^ '"'^'"^'^ ^*^ tormented day and niglit forever and eve. Had the Doctor been as anxiousto know the truth as ho evidently is to make out his theory, he would have found hat when the ''beast and false prophet " were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with brimstone " that there was a remnant slam with the sword of Him that sat upoh tho liorse, .winch sword proceeded out of his mouth • and all " THT FOWLS WERE AlLED WITH THEIK FLESH ''-^ xix 20, 21. Are you aware. Doctor, that the Scriptures nowhere state that the wicked are to be "tormented day and mghtforevqr and ever V" Jf s^, how dare you make such a statement and assure us that they are " the words of our Lord and His Apostles V" Did you never read : " If any 'man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book V" But why attempt to build a theorv on faguratu^ expressions ? Do the rules of interpretation adopt- ed by Acadia College warrant such a procedure 'i If so we cL readily account for the strange notions that come from ^.h'at quar- er. If not, then the Doctor is sadly out of the way, and we ope wi 1 speerhly come back to those -clear and dedsive state- ments by which all controversies must be settled. He continues : " These expressions assure us that inconceivable misery will fol- 'Z:e^:.:^ttt:^^^^'''''''--'''^' ^'^ -sery win Lmmence Will the Doctor please inform us which of the passages he has quoted ''ass^o^es " us of this ? How strange it is that'men will make such statements as the above, and then assure us that " thev away !' '"' ^"'^ '"'^ ^^''' ^^''^^''' ^^"^^ ^'^'"^^t pass Here, then, we have the -clear and decisive statements by miMi RKVIinv OF DR. CRAMP. 19 which the controvorsy is to ho settled ;" this is what wo liiivo learned by " plaoing ourselvi's at the feet of om J.ord Jchus aiul His servants, who wi-oto under the inspiration of the protaiHcd Spirit;" this 'a the testimony of (lod, who onhf know and could answer the (piestion, " What will become of the wicked V" It is surprising indeed that a man ocenpying the prominent position \\\ the theological world that Dr. Cramp docs, can, for the sake of building up a popular, but (rod-(lishonf)ring dogma, consent to so garble the plain testiniony of the Bible as to make it appear, to some of his readers, that God has determined to torment a portion of His creatures in a place called hHI throughout the wasteless ages of eternity, and this with the full knowledfjo that HK HAS xVEVEll IN A SINGLE INSTANCE SA[ I) feu ! ! Singularly unfortunate it is, for the eternal torment theory, that all the terms and expressions used by the sacred writers to designate the final punishment of the wicked, teach exactly the reverse ; and it is only by explanation and qualitication that they can be made to teach anything else but the utter destruction of the sinner Wo will adil a few of these to the Doctcu-'s list of texts, in answer to his question, "What will ukcomk of thk Wicked ?" "THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH."-Rom. vi. 23. " In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt suukly die."— Gen. ii. 17. " The soul that sinnetb it shall die."— Ezek. xviii. 4. " Sin when it is finished bringeth forth death."— James i. 15. " The end of those things is death."— Rom. vi. 21. " We are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish ; to the one >re are the savour of death unto death, and to the other the savour of life unto life." —2 Cor. ii. 15, 16. '• Have their part in the lake which burncth with fire and brim- stone, which is the second death."— Rev. xxi. 8. "ALL THE WICKED WILL HE DESTROY."- P'5.cxlv.20. " They shall be d ^.stroyed forever."— Ps, xcii. 7. " Shall be destroyed from awoug the people."— Acts iii. 23. " Broad is the way that leads to destruction."- Matt. vii. 13. " Shall be punished with everlasting destruction."— 2 Thes. i. 9. " The transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked sliall be cut off'."— Ps. xxxvii. 38. "Whoso despiseth the Word shall be destroyed."— Prov. xiii, 13. B ttm 20 WHAT WILT HECOME OF THE WICKED ? '' Vessi'Is of wrath fitted to l)FsTUiTTiON."-Uoman8 ix. 22. " \\ IIOSK END IH DESTUUCTION."— Phil. iif. 19. "SuDDKN DKSTUUCTION Cometh upon them."— 1 Thes v 3 "Drown men in dkktuuction and perdition."-! Titn. vi *n ' " BnnfT upon themselves swirr d;:stuu(tion."— 2 Peter ii 1 "Surely Hiou didnt set them in slippery places: thou castt them down into dk.stui;ction."— Ps. lx,\iii 18 easiest "THEY SHALL CONSUME." •' Into smoke shall thev consume awa ."— Pa xxxvii 20 COR^SZ^'i'. ISf 'il. "■=«'«" '^ ■'••"='« OWN " He that speaketh lies shall PKRisii."— Prov. xix. 0. "liehold, ye desj)isers, and wonder and I'KRIsfi."— Acts xiii 41 "As many as luivo sinned withouL law shall also I'EUisH without iaw. — Horn. ii. 12. "THE 1)AY THAT COMETH SHALL IRURN THEM UP that It shall leave them neither root nor brancli."— Mai iv 1 m".!'""','!,"'^^'™ "'' ™''- """" "■■■''" 'JNWEXClt.lBI.l! FIRE."— 3iatt. in. 12. "Fire came down from Cod out of heaven and devoured them " — itev. XX. 9. Now wo suhmit that if those passages clearly relate to tbo tinal punishment of the wicked, tiiey teach a doctriuo the very antipodes of the eternal torment tlieory. The question is not what may tlie terms die, death, destroy, destruction, perdition' perish consume, &c., be made to mean 'in different connection^' but, what do thoy imi)ort when applied by the sacred writers to the fun punishment of the wicked ? Let this^ noint be kept constantly ni view, lest the unpracticed reader should Oe blinded by a great display of irrelevant texts. On page 1« the Doctor has proposed two .ill or natives, as follows- : "Either the words ning us with piin and punishment which wUl never be intiicted. Wliich of these alternatives We choorfully and heartily accept of the former. Will the Doctor do the same V We shall see ! When the rulers of our country say that the murderer shall KEVIEW OF PR. CRAMP. 21 ns IX. 22. 1. V. 3. vi. 9. LT ii. 1. )u easiest 20. id let the R OWN xiu. 41. I without lEM UP . 1. iiulles TO FIRE." — D them." 3 to tho the very I is not, ordition, lections, riters to be kept blinded Doctor ry of tlie eptation, lain and Bi-natives Vm the 31- shall T^iK, the "plain and common acceptation" of that senteuco in, that he shall lose /u's life! When wo hear that a death has occurred in a family, the " jdaiu and common acceptation" t^f tlwt word is, that one of that family has reastd to live/ If we hear that a buat upset and all on board i'euishkd, tho '• plain and common acceptation" of this word is, they have ceased to exist, they wore drowned ! If we hear of war, storm, or tempest, by wliich a thousand people were dkstroykd, we don't expect the return of any of them ; the " plain and eonnnon acceptation" of this word is, they were killed — it is so understood by all I If we read ot a ship or house being burned, and people con- sumed in the flames, the " plain and conmion acceptation" of tho word would be, tlioy were burned up ! If we speak of paper or other like articles bo'ng uurnkd up, all understrld are become the kingdoms of our Lord, aud of his Christ ; and He shall reign forever and ever. And the four-and-twenty elders which sat before God on their seats, fell upon their faces and worshipped God, saying. We give Thee thaidcs, Lord, God Almighty, whicli art, and wast, and art to come ; because Thou hast tak*^!! to Thee Thy gr(>!it power, and hast reigned. And the nations were angry, and Thy wrath m^ BEVIEW OF DR. CRAMP. 23 i. com., and the time of the dead, that they ««o™ «'! ^\^^'^,^; AND THAT Thou should'st give reward unto Thy SER\ANrs THE Prophets, and to the Saints, and them that fear thy lllv SMALL InD great, AND SHOULd'sT DESTROY THEM WHICH ',C:oY THE EARTH.'' Rcv. xi. 15-18. If tho sau.ts uud pro- phets and those that fear the Lord had been judged and received heir reward at death, what pomt is there to this langange ? Does e Bible teach that there is two great judgments and two tunes ^iward andpunish'nent? Does the Judge of all the earth uds men at death and receive them into heaven or cast them into hell, and then hundreds of years after brmg them out to be tried over again ? * Again, he says — ,, a i - The Body dies but the Soul lives. And - He h vs plainly told us that the soul survives the rody. ^ , The first of these statements rests entirely on the Doct^slpsi Dixit ; not a particle of proof can be adduced from the Bible in '^^^^^ to a. Saviour and all that will be required of him, is to cite ns to the book, chapter and verse where our^.ord makes this jdain declaration. This will be required at his hands. Again, he says — ^ , + ^^ The converted thief was not bidden to look for a sleep of ages |^ but "tu-day," said the loving Redeemer, whose woihIs could not pas» away," " to-day shalt tliou be with Me in Paradise. We suppose that it is not necessary to inform the Doctor t^at so,ne of the learned consider the narrative of the ' 1 emtent Thief" as an interpolation; and it must be confessed that the f,,tinwny of Matthew and Mark, and the silence of John, who was an eye-witness of the crucifiKion, gives some countenance to to view of the u.atter. Matthew tesffies that the ''chief miests with the scribes and elders," mocked hun, and lite thieves also, which ivere crucified with him, cast the same in HIS TEETH." Matt, xxvii. 41,44. .77. Mark testifies that " They that were crucified with him rl» VI LED HIM." Mark XV. 32. .^ tt- j John simply notices the faet that " They criicfied him and two others ivith him, on either side one and Jesii^ m the midst. '^'Thus'i't appears that the testimony of Matthew and Mark is TJositively opposed to that of Luke, while, John is silent as to the Piut under consideration. But, admitting the authenticity of ^**^P^ef|^««*s?iSii,^Si*M«l.i , r'®%l,* ' ''^i^HtfU^^I \i . o i WHAT WILL EECOME OF THE WICKED f the navratlvo, tlioro arc still some diffieultiGS in the way of our tiiloptin,^: tlie popular interpretatron of the passage. 1. The S:ivi(>)n- say?', " As Jonas was throe days and three n:p;hts in the whale's belly, so shall the Son of Man he fJ/rce clays mill three rt/'ff/tfs in the heart of tlie e. The requ.est of tlie thief was — " Lord, rcmondjer me wiikn Tiiou coMKST INTO TiiY KINGDOM." Josus lias uot yct como into His kinij^doin. but is seiited on His Father's th.rone fi'oni hence- forth, expecting until his enemies are made his footstool ; hence 4. The time has not yet come for the Saviour's promise to be fulSlled ; but ''When the Son of I\Ian .shall come in His glory, ai;d all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory." The nations will bo gathered, and separa- ted, the righteous rewarded, and the wicked punished. At that time Jesus will reuiember the thief, and call him to enjoy the kingdom prepared from the foundation of the world. We understand the passage as simply a promise mndi.) that day th;^ when the Saviour came iu His kingdom the thief should 1)0 with Him ; and admitting that there is some obscurity in tho pa.s.sage thus understood, it is not, in our judgment, so great a.s in the other view. Here we nnist rest th.e matter for tho present, sincerely hoping that we may be led into the truth, and be saved through the merits of Christ our lledeemer. J. LENFEST. OORNWALLIS, N. S. ■ n-ys ly of our :iid tlirec hree days D. How "Touch n XX. 17. from tlio ii^vkleiitly tliat Kur- ' l;)rouo;bt Shophoid mo WHEN 3onio into m lieiice- ; hence niso to be [is glory, upon the id separa- At that jnjity tlie :; tliat (Jjuj ;liould 1)0 \.j in tho orcat a.s ly lioping ough tho FEST. I r-f^l^-o. 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