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And it must strike every one as right and consistent that<br />

this should be so. The sinner has been seduced into sin,<br />

but he repents. Yet standing back of the scene, there is<br />

one who is the primary author and instigator of all, the<br />

inciting agent in every sinner's sinful deed; and when the<br />

transgressor awakes to the true nature of his course, and<br />

sees the enormity of his crimes, and wishes to return to<br />

allegiance to his Saviour, and put away his sins, what<br />

could be more fitting than that those sins should fall back<br />

upon the head of him who first gave birth to sin, and who<br />

has fostered the growth of every branch from that baleful<br />

root. In this, the decision of every right-minded intelligence<br />

must be, that God is just, and Satan receives no more<br />

than his due deserts. p. 271, Para. 1, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

Satan, having thus received the load of sins from which<br />

the righteous have become free, and being confined to this<br />

desolate earth, is reserved to the day of perdition. The<br />

thousand years at length expire, the lake of fire, prepared<br />

for the devil and his angels, appears. These parties are<br />

cast therein, and all the wicked, those who are found in<br />

league with them, share the same fate. Then every sin ever<br />

committed is punished, and in the persons of the wicked,<br />

evil angels, and Satan, the whole abominable mass perishes<br />

forever. p. 271, Para. 2, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

And then is reached that point of transcendent interest<br />

when one of the most cheering prophecies in all the Bible<br />

can be fulfilled. For at this point, but not before, can<br />

that universal song of jubilee be raised to God, which the<br />

seer of Patmos foretold in these inspiring words: "And<br />

every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and<br />

under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that<br />

are in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honor, and<br />

glory, and power, be unto Him that sitteth upon the throne,<br />

and unto the Lamb for ever and ever." Rev. 5:13. The<br />

quenchless flames of the fiery lake have then spent their<br />

force in consuming the rebel hosts. The earth is purified<br />

by the fervent heat. No sinner and no taint of sin is left.<br />

The new earth appears, to be the everlasting habitation of<br />

the just. 2 Pet. 3:12,13. p. 271, Para. 3, [<strong>LOOK<strong>IN</strong>G</strong>].<br />

No room for Universalism here; for the wicked have all<br />

been destroyed. No place for an endless, burning hell, to<br />

mar the landscape of eternity, nor the agonizing wail of<br />

the unending, conscious misery of the greater part of the<br />

human family, to bring discord into the universal song of

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