And here I would distinctly remark, that the dead are represented as being raised at the coming of Christ.  This is admitted and believed by all.  But where, I ask, is there in the Book of God one passage to prove any coming of Christ after the destruction of the Jewish polity when he commenced his gospel reign, called the judgment of the world?  This was his second coming; but where but where is there a scrap of scripture to prove his third coming at the end of time?  For one, I have searched in vain for such testimony.  That Christ came in his kingdom, during the life time of the persons he addressed, and then commenced the judgment of the world, is certain.  This is not, however, admitted to be that coming of Christ when the dead will be raised immortal.  Where then is revealed that third coming of our Lord, at the end of time, to raise the dead?  I think it will be an unsuccessful task for any man to search it out and bring it forward.

I would not be understood to say, that no destruction will attend this earth.  On the contrary philosophy seems to warrant the idea.  But the scriptures no not, in my apprehension, reveal such a catastrophe, nor a third coming of Christ, nor a general resurrection at that period.  The reader may, perhaps, here inquire whether the scriptures do not clearly describe the resurrection of all mankind to be at one instant of time?  I answer, no more than they describe the judgment of all mankind to be at the same instant.  But, says the reader, the resurrection is to be at the coming of Christ, which must be at some designated period.  Very well; the judgment was to be at the coming of Christ to the destruction of the Jewish state, and does not this designate some particular period?  If so, how are we judged in the present day?  If the judgment day, which then commenced, has not yet ended, why may not the resurrection day be still progressing?  If you contend, that the dead were all to rise at once, then by the same mode of scripture interpretation, I can prove that all the living were to be judged at once.  Acts xvii. 31.  “Because he hath appointed A DAY in the which, he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained, whereof he hath given this assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.” 2 Cor. v.10.  “For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that every one may receive the things in body, according to that he hath done, whether good or bad.”

Though this event is represented as transpiring in one day, and as though all men were literally arraigned at the same instant, still all Universalist admit, that it commenced at the destruction of Jerusalem, has passed upon succeeding generations, and will continue from the present down to subsequent ages, so long as human beings shall have a habitation on earth.  This is called the last day.  Jesus says—­“the