Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ DESTRUCTIONISTS, a denomination of Christians who teach that the final punishment threatened in the gospel to the wicked and impenitent, consists not in external misery, but in a total extinction of being ”
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ There are many passages of scripture, in which the ultimate punishment to which wicked men shall be adjudged, is defined in the most precise terms, to be an everlasting destruction from the power of God, which is equally able to destroy as to preserve. So when our Saviour is fortifying the minds of his disciples against the wrath of men, he expresses himself thus: Fear not them that kill the body, but him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. And when he says, These shall go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal, Mr. ”
Hannah Adams, A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations… (1817)
“ The name assumed by this denomination, takes for granted that the scripture word destruction means annihilation. In strict propriety of speech they should therefore be called Annihilationists. this doctrine is largely maintained in the sermons of Mr. ”
