Memoirs of William Miller - Sylvester Bliss

those who oppose themselves, if God peradventure
may give them repentance to the acknowledging of
the truth, and they may recover themselves out of
the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him
at his will.’
“In conclusion, permit us to add the following
resolutions:
“Resolved, That this Conference, while it
sympathizes with every Scripture effort to save
men from sin, and prepare them, by grace, for the
Kingdom of God, -- and while it bids god-speed to
the publication of the gospel to every creature in
the world, -- yet it feels bound, by the most solemn
considerations possible, to oppose, to the utmost of
its power, that fatal and delusive doctrine of
modern days, namely, that the Scripture warrants
the belief, or even the hope, that, before the second
glorious and personal appearing of Christ, to
glorify his saints and renew the earth, the world, or
even a majority of it, will be converted to Christ.
And, 1st. We deem it anti-Scriptural, -- opposed to
all that class of scriptures which represents the
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