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LECTURES

ON

UNIVERSALISM:

BY JOEL PARKER,
Pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, Rochester.

"BUY THE TRUTH AND SELL IT NOT."

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LECTURES ON UNIVERSALISM.

LECTURE I.

Direct Arguments from the Scriptures.

Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many I say unto you will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. Luke 13: 24.

THE instructions of our Saviour were all of a weighty and important character. If he touched upon the most common topics, it was not with any common design. The glory of God, and the ultimate happiness of men plainly engrossed all his affections and controlled his whole conduct. The purity and extent of the law, the richness of Divine Mercy, the glory of Divine Justice, and the eternal rewards of a future state, were topics which mingled themselves with his common discourse. In the words just cited, he urges men to make a vigorous effort to enter upon that course of life which conducts the soul to heaven.

The word 'strive' in this text, is derived from a word signifying a contest; its force therefore is much like this-make an effort to enter upon the way to heaven; an effort such as men do when they meet at some disputed pass, and when with the shock of arms, and in the struggle of a charge, they contend for honor, and victory, and life. The motive by which he enforces his exhortation is plainly this; many will ultimately fail of the blessing to which he had di

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