the Son of God. If a man deny endless punishment, he must deny the infinite evil of sin and the infinite holiness of God. If a man deny endless punishment, he must deny the total depravity of man. If a man deny endless punishment, he must deny the existence and agency of devils. If a man deny endless punishment, he must deny all punishment; and in denying all punishment, he must rob the government of God of one great influence necessary to sustain it; and in robbing the government of God of adequate moral influence, he denies that God is a perfect moral governor; and in denying that God is a perfect moral governor, he denies all his moral perfections: and in denying his perfections, he denies his existence; and in denying his existence, he denies all evidence and all truth.

We have heard a Universalist minister, of this city, who, in denying the doctrine of endless punishment, publicly deny the total depravity of man. We have heard him deny the supreme divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have heard him deny the vicarious nature of the sufferings of Christ. We have heard him deny the infinite evil of sin and the infinite obligations of the law of God. He finds himself compelled to avow such sentiments in having denied one of the fundamental doctrines of the Bible. He is consistent, to say the least. And if he perseveres in such consistency, and God spares him, you all know what he will become at no distant day. We knew a Universalist minister, in this city, not long since, whose con

verts some of you are, who professed to hold to the Bible as containing a revelation from God. He only discarded one of its doctrines, viz. endless punishment. He put on the mask of Christianity; sang our hymns of praise, and adopted most of our phraseology, that he might throw dust in the eyes of the multitude, and thus more effectually stab the vitals of religion. But he soon denied another doctrine, and then another, and then another, till, by and by, the all-disclosing providence of God unmasked him. And what was he at heart? He had a heart as black as hell, for it was the heart of an Atheist. He adopted not only his system, but its tendencies. Now he knows what we mean when we declare that Universalism is atheistical in its tendencies. He has gone down the ladder of eternal truth, till now he has stepped from the last round into the dismal depths of Atheism. Now God has only to break his hold upon life, and the next step which this unfortunate and guilty man will take, will be into the burning waves of damnation.

If Universalism has not such tendencies, why is it that skeptical men resort to Universalist churches on the Sabbath in preference to other churches? We know of an infidel in this city, (and at a proper time we will give you his name and residence) who for a number of years went nowhere to church. He did not go, because he hated the doctrines that were preached in the churches generally. But now he says, he has found a church whose doctrines he likes. Now he is a regular attendant

upon that church. And what church do you suppose that is, which this infidel has fallen in love, with? Why it is one of the Universalist churches of this city. There he can spend his Sabbaths and not get pricked in the heart. There he finds a sufficient admixture of infidelity with Christianity to make it palatable.

And are we invited, under the mask of Christianity, to believe such a system as this? Must we, then, all become Atheists, that the Universalist may enjoy his pleasing and dreamy revery of "no hell?" And will he still wear by stealth the badges of Christianity, and claim her character and respect, while he is bleeding her at every pore. What a fiend he must be, who will claim your acquaintance, and society, and friendship, and yet who will secretly drive his poniard into one of your main arteries and bleed you to death!

That system of religion is from God which increases our love for truth and our reverence for the Bible; but that system is from hell which would lead us to mangle the Bible and discard the fundamental principles of the government of God.

FORTY-SIXTH REASON.

"Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers! how can ye escape the damnation of hell?"

Matt. xxiii. 33.

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FORTY-SEVENTH REASON.

For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch." Malachi, iv. 1.

FORTY-EIGHTH REASON.

"But after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath, and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; who will render to every man according to his deeds; to them who, by patient continuance in well-doing, seek for glory, and honour, and immortality, eternal life; but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the gentile."

Romans, ii. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

FORTY-NINTH REASON.

"For as many as have sinned without law, shall also perish without law; and as many as have sinned in the law, shall be judged by the law; in the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel."

Romans, ii. 12, 16.

FIFTIETH REASON.

"For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works."

Matthew, xvi. 27.

FIFTY-FIRST REASON.

"Wo unto thee, Chorazin! wo unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes. But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment,