Excerpt from A Review of Some of Professor Stuart's Arguments in Defence of Endless Misery: Published in the American Biblical Repository, July, 1840
As he is a conscientious believer in this most fearful doctrine, and as he evidently believes, that the eternal well-being of immortal souls depends on a sound belief of it; and knowing that there are many serious people, and even some clergy men, who by finding it impossible to reconcile the benevolent feelings, of which they are pos sessed, to the rigid severity of this doctrine, have been driven, not only into severe trials, but even into doubts, he has felt it his duty to exert his learning, talents, and influence, to remove such doubts, and to quiet those feelings, of the benev olent heart, which have been the cause of them.
Hosea Ballou was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. osea Ballou was born in Richmond, New Hampshire, to a family of Huguenot origin. The son of Maturin Ballou, a Baptist minister, he was self-educated, and devoted himself early on to the ministry. In 1789 he converted to Universalism, and in 1794 became a pastor of a congregation in Dana, Massachusetts.
He founded and edited The Universalist Magazine (1819 -- later called The Trumpet), and The Universalist Expositor (1831 -- later The Universalist Quarterly Review), and wrote about 10,000 sermons as well as many hymns, essays and polemic theological works. He is best known for Notes on the Parables (1804), A Treatise on Atonement (1805) and Examination of the Doctrine of a Future Retribution (1834). These works mark him as the principal American expositor of Universalism.
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