ADDRESSED TO REV. HOSEA BALLOU, OF BOSTON; BEING ▲ VINDICATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF A Future Retribution, AGAINST THE PRINCIPAL ARGUMENTS USED BY HIM, MR. BALFOUR, AND OTHERS. BY CHARLES HUDSON, "I believed, therefore have I spoken”....... WOODSTOCK, VT. PRINTED BY DAVID WATSON. PSALMIST. BT 837 83 18 c.1 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS-TO WIT : District Clerk's Office. E IT REMEMBERED, that on the seventeenth day of April, United States of America, СHARLES HUDSON of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: A Series of Letters, addressed to Rev. Hosea Ballou, of Boston"; being a vindication of the doctrine of a future retribution, against the principal arguments used by him, Mr. Balfour and others. By Charles Hudson, Pastor of a Church in Westminster, (Mass.) "I believed, therefore have I spoken."-Psalmist. In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an act, entitled "An Act supplementary to an act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books to the Authors and Proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. CONTENTS. Introductory remarks, statement of the question, and Introductory remarks-All sects differ among the m- selves-Controversy valuable, if rightly conducted--Sin- ful feelings remonstrate against a future retribution-- Statement of the question-Mr. Ballou's system a nega- Statement and examination of Mr. B.'s system. Statement of Mr. B.'s system-Creation and formation considered-The 2d chap. of Gen. a supplement to the 1st -All sin originates in the flesh, considered-The soul always pure, examined-Sin arises from the evil disposi- tion of the mind-Men saved by death on Mr. B.'s system -Saved by instruction-by the resurrection-without Examination of Mr. B.'s arguments. No misery after death, because there is no sin there, considered-Criminality does not cease with the act-Mr. B.'s statement is begged, disproves future happiness, and is unphilosophical-The promise to Abraham, considered -The case of Adam, Cain, the old world, Sodom, Korah, Pharaoh and Judas, considered-The law of Moses, and the case of the Israelites, examined-Several passages of scripture, Prov. xi. 31, Eccl. xii. 7, Eccl. iv. 2, Rom. vi. 7, |