And those powers

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And those powers

And those powers, too, as the doctrine would seem to intimate, conferred on him for the express purposes of continually opposing the will of the great Creator, and fulfilling the offices of tempter and tormentor to his rational creatiqp. VAn absurdity equally grat would be the supposition, that a spirit, created goodas all the productions of the divine power unquestionably wereshould, in consequence of a rebellious departure from a blissful state of obedience, be endowed with a capacity to assume, and exercise, of its own mere volition, the vastly extendedattributes and powers in question; as it were in reward for the consummate wickedness of its conduct. A doctrine fit only to be entertained in some heathenish mythological tale, or in the MBT Shoes pernicious fables of" Milton's Paradise Lost."Some persons appear to entertain the opinion, that there can be no torment to the wicked without the intervention of an external tormentor. But what torment can be conceived to be more poignant in any state of existence, than an internal sense of wrath, horror, darkness and despair, arising from a separation, through wilful disobedience, from the blissful harmony of divine love ? Some, again, will suppose MBT there can be no temptations to evil without the agency of a personal tempter, of distinct and separate existenceforgetting the clear, emphatical declaration of the apostle James, that" every man is tempted when he is MBT Shoes Sale drawn away of his own lust."Many will, no doubt, in consequence of their longestablished traditional prejudices, apprehend that the pages of scripture furnish evidence conclusively confirming the doctrine of the existence of such a distinct evil agent; and will, therefore, condemn every effort to controvert the opinion, as an unhallowed attempt to invalidate the evidence of scriptural testimony in the case. But, on examining those passages of scripture where the terms alluded to are used, it appears clearly evident, that they are, in general, only meant metaphorically to express certain dispositions in the minds of men, unconnected with any evil being without them.The manner in which the Egyptians recorded events in hieroglyphical representations, before the use of letters was introduced, would necessarily lead Moses to afigurative MBT Trainers maimer of expression, as the only mode whereby the people, in the state they then were in, could be instructed with the best effect.