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of eternal punifhments, compared with the arguments both 
rom reafon and feripture, m proof of the immortality of 
‘the foul, are urged to this purpofe. In proof of the final 
-happinefs of all mankind, it has been urged, that ‘all the 
_evils that befal either body of mind in this itate, have a ten- 
ency to improve one or both. Arguing from analogies 
.taken from this ftate concerning that which is future, we 
ought to infer, that the evils of t 
fame tendency and final caufe with thofe of the prefent life, 
‘=. to meliorate and perfe€t our nature, and to prepare 
VIS. 
them for ultimate unlimited happinefs. Moreover, the gene- 
ration of benevolence, by the natural and neceflary tendency 
of our frames, is a ftrong argument for the ultimate happi- 
nefs of all mankind. It is inconfiftent to fuppofe that God 
Moreover, the infinite Oven of se 
mankind ; and the 
n to the fup- 
es, it feems to be inccaliadt eich the i 
racter of an infinitely merciful father to doom his children to 
eternal mifery, without farther trials than thofe whiclr this 
1 ffords. Do we not fee numberlefs inftarices of per- 
fons at prefent abandoned to vice 
ing 
God, and 
id not bring to themfelves: yet ftill the 
fatherly cha lfensats intended to amend an¢ perfe&, not 
to be final and vindiive. By fuch reafonings, purfued 
much farther than our limits will allow of our introducing 
c. Hartley attempted to thew, that it is un. 
em, has Dr. Hi , 
fuitable to the benevolence of Deity, or to the relations 1 
‘punifhment of the fins of this life ; 
a future ftate will have the - 
tually ' + He mutt have future difcipline of i 
a feverer kind for thofe whom the chaftifements of this life : 
will be all di 
one {tage of moral depravity to another, till they 
betes SA? aie eS oe 
which he bears to us, according to the light of nature, te 
the 
make infinite irrevertible mifery commencing at death, 
and by a farther profe- 
cution of the fame 
hall mifery upon the balance, and 
‘then to hope for the ultimate unlimited happinefs of all man- 
ind, : 
happinefs of all mankind. He add 
eneral way, 
hat all th ultimate happinefs of all 
i hic bear to 
other. It is alfo foretold, that Chrift will « fubdue ‘all 
things to himfelf ;’’ and fubje@tion to Chrift, according to 
the figurative prophetic ftyle of the feriptures, is happinefs, 
not merely fubjecticn by compulfion, like that to an earthly 
conqueror. Similar paflages occur in other or 
Old and New Teltaments, which the author adduces in fup- 
port of the general argument. Others, owever, are of 
opinion, that the paffages cited by Dr. Hartley in favour of 
the reftoration of all mankind to happinefs, may be more 
fatisfactorily interpreted in another way, fo as to afford no 
ground for this fentiment. ie 
we combine the two opinions above ftated, the refult 
entious 
ther irreclaimable. As fome hedily diford advance 
from one ftage of inveteracy to another tilPthey are abfolute — 
m 
e, and muft ultimately terminate in diffoluors 
