O AN EXAMINATION OF UNIVERSALISM, EMBRACING ITS RISE AND PROGRESS, AND THE MEANS OF ITS PROPAGATION. BY REV. NATHAN D. GEORGE, "Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field."-Bible. BOSTON: WAITE, PEIRCE AND COMPANY, No. 1 Cornhill. GARDINER, ME.: N. D. GEORGE. 1846. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY 18544 Sammel. & Green, of the Senior-blan_from Grote Man Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, BY N. D. GEORGE, In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. GEORGE C. RAND, PRINter, PREFACE. THE history of the following work is briefly this: Having never seen any thing which treated particularly upon the history of Universalism, from the pens of those who had written against the doctrine, and finding many erroneous notions afloat, both among Universalists and others, respecting it, we thought it might be of service to the cause of truth to examine the subject, and give the result to the public in some popular form. This examination was attended to, and in the first part of 1844, its publication was voted by both the Bangor and Penobscot associations of Methodist ministers. As Universalists had adopted some new measures for the prosecution of their work, and thus had led some to believe that the Ethiopian could change his skin and the leopard his spots; and as sufficient materials were at hand, some judicious brethren thought it might benefit the cause of truth to expose the means resorted to by its advocates for the propagation of this dogma. This has been done, and is contained in the second part. It has been thought best to commence the work with an abridgment of an Essay, published three years since, on the question, "Were Christ and his Apostles Universalists?" and to answer a few objections made to the views therein contained. It will be seen that these additions have not only delayed its publication, but have made it a very different thing from the original design. |