It is enough to say that these words express the larger hope, if fairly and fully understood
It is enough to say that these words express the larger hope, if fairly and fully understood "THE LORD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH, BUT THAT ALL SHOULD COME TO REPENTANCE." 2 Peter iii. 9. If then any do perish finally, God's will and design must have been finally overthrown: it is obvious that a temporary resistance, permitted for wise ends, differs wholly from a final defiance of God's will. This dignity, impaired by the Fall, has been recovered by Christ the Son of Man They teach the absolute universality of Christ's reign, which the repeated testimony of Scripture shows to be love and peace. Here is an addition to that very large class of passages which speak of Christ's kingdom, as destined to extend over all things,…