“God is a Sovereign and a Judge as well as a Father; and there come crises when it would but be weakness in him not to be inflexible in severity. The safety of the universe throughout unceasing ages demands that God illustrate everlasting justice upon sinners, as well as that. he exhibit infinite love. There is a moral law, a system of rewards and retributions, which has its terrestrial expression in human governments; and as the safety of society here depends upon the firmness of its administration, so is it throughout immensity and eternity. The archangel Michael, in the famous painting of Guido, crushing the dragon under his feet, and standing puissant in triumph as the unwavering Vindicator of right, and the unflinching avenger of wrong, is a sublime-symbol of this immutable law. This scene fitly represents the “backbone of the moral universe.” And to deny this truth, and to seek to View God in the aspect of love alone, is to ignore the most patent facts everywhere circumventing us.
Level of Difficulty: Intermediate: Some subject matter knowledge helpful.
Preface.
Introduction By Charles Porterfield Krauth.
Letter From Theodore D. Woolsey, Ex-President Of Yale College.
Part One. The Witness Of The Church.
Section I. — The Clementine Homilies.
Section II. — The Clementine Recognitions.
Section III. — The Apostolical Constitutions.
Section IV. — Apocryphal Gospels, Acts, and Revelations.
Part Two. The Teaching Of Scripture.
Section One. Individual Words In The New Testament Teaching Eternal Punishment.
Section Two. General Statements Of Scripture In Which The Eternity Of Future Punishment Is Either Expressly Taught Or Necessarily Implied.
Part Three. The Voice Of Reason.
Part Four. Fallacies And Evils Of Restorationism Or Universalism.
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