John Humphrey Noyes: The Berean: A Manual for the Help of Those who Seek the Faith of the Primitive Church. 1847, page 245.
"One strong hold of Universalists, in fact the most indispensable, is the denial of a future and eternal judgment. By demonstrating, as they easily can, to common sense, (not perhaps to traditionary bigotry,) that the judgment most frequently predicted and alluded to in the New Testament, was to come within the lifetime of the generation contemporary with Christ, they stop the mouths of those who preach a future judgment ; and then, following up then? advantage, they virtually nullify the whole testimony of the Bible concerning the judgment, with its rewards and punishments, by referring it to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the subsequent temporal curses of the Jews, and blessings of the Gentiles."
"First, we concede the manifest truth of their primary position, viz : that the judgment expected
by the primitive church, came to pass at the time appointed, within that generation. But then we prove to them that that was only a judgment of the subjects of the first gospel, the judgment of the Jews, terminating the Mosaic dispensation ; and we point them to predictions of another and final judgment, to come after the times of the Gentiles. By developing the scriptural division of the judgment into two acts, we can grant all they claim, and yet prove a future judgment. Secondly, we show, in relation to the first judgment, that the outward events which they say fulfilled the predictions of that transaction, were only visible signs, bearing no greater propertion of importance to the actual judgment of the second coming, which followed them in the invisible world, than the body bears to the soul."
