A Defense Containing the Author's Renunciation of Universalism Explained and Enlarged: The Notices and Aspersions of Universalist Editors Answered and Repelled ; Arguments and Principles of Universalists, Examined and Exploded and Religion and Revelation Vindicated Against Skepticism and Infidelity
By Lewis C. Todd (1834)
"I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some." - 1 Cor. 9:22. Saved from what? Not from the destruction of Jerusalem? for he refers to those, who did not live at Jerusalem as well as those who did. Was it from their sins, that they might enjoy the comforts of Christianity in this life? Did the apostles toil, and bleed, from land to land, and labor with such intense anxiety, to convert people to Christianity; knowing that all their converts would drink the cup of affliction to its very dregs, would be deprived of every earthly comfort, and suffer every kind of persecution; knowing too, that all would be saved in the next state, whatever they might do here?" (Page 207)
"For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ ; that every one may receive the things (done) in ( his) body according to that he hath done, whether (it be) good or bad." — 2 COR. 5:10. — Were the apostle and his brethren then appearing in judgment, and then receiving the things according to their actions? Or was this judgment " the destruction of Jerusalem?" The "destruction of Jerusalem" is a VERY ACCOMMODATING CIRCUMSTANCE FOR UNIVERSALISTS (AKA Hyper-Preterists); but how the destruction of Jerusalem could be a judgment for Paul, in this life, who died before that event took place, and especially, for the Corinthians, who lived in a city at a great distance from Judea and Jerusalem, we have not learning enough to see!" (PAGE 207-208)
"And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?" — Verse 18. — Did Peter mean, they should appear in heaven? Was Peter a universalist? Some have said that Peter here was alluding to the judgment that was to come upon Jerusalem. But he was writing to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Capadocia, Asia, and Bithynia. In what danger were these people of the judgment of Jerusalem? If this judgment was in his mind, he might have preached it to Judea and Jerusalem, but why speak of it in a warning style to people of other countries?" (Page 212)
