The Anti-universalist, or history of the fallen angels of the Scriptures; proofs of the being of Satan and of evil spirits: intended as a refutation of the three main points of universalism, namely, that there is no hell after death; no devil or Satan as a being; and no future day of final judgment / by Josiah Priest ; embellished with twenty-two engravings. Part I.

  • Priest, Josiah, 1788-1851.
Date:
1837
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Credit: The Anti-universalist, or history of the fallen angels of the Scriptures; proofs of the being of Satan and of evil spirits: intended as a refutation of the three main points of universalism, namely, that there is no hell after death; no devil or Satan as a being; and no future day of final judgment / by Josiah Priest ; embellished with twenty-two engravings. Part I. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V may he had in Contempt^ mid made the SuhjeEl of Ridicule and Enffoonry : Eut^ then luch Per- Tons ought to know, that the very Reafon zvhy they aB fo^ is^ becaufe thej dont believe in any fuperior Eehiy^^ and confequently ?nake light of every Thing that is communicated f'om the other World ^ i have often wonder’d, how the Sad- ducees could deny the Being of Angels and Spirits^ ( as we read in the Gofpel they did ) fince Mofes fo often makes mention of them, and of appearing to Mankind ^ I do therefore, for iny own Part, take the Sadducees to have been a complaifant Sort of Jtheijls, who outwardly paid a Regard to fome Parts of the J-ewip Reli¬ gion on Account of the People, but no other- wife : And this is the Reafon, that Juftin Mar¬ tyr^ in ins Dialogue with Trypho xlitfew, does not reckon the Sadducees in the Number of the Jezvs^ but reputed them as Hereticks^ not allowing them any Place in the Jewif Church. And Celfiis^ wdio was a Sort of an Epicu¬ rean, copy’d exactly after the Sadducees (as may be feen in Origen^ who there anfwers him) making a Jefl; of Angels and the Refur- rection ^ and generally of all tliofe Apparitions^ ^ which are mentioned both in the Old and New Teftament. The true Realon then. Madam, why we are at a Lofs in framing any Notion of Spirit^ is, becaufe our Souls are fo mmerfed in a poiTe contemni, vel etiam rideri, priedare intel- ligo: Sed id ipiuin eft, Deos non putare : Qua: ab iis lig- niiicantur, conternnere. Cic. Lib. i, de Divin. MatUr I /