Paperback Book, Very good condition, but may have some minor wear to the cover or dust jacket, Pages are clean with little to no markings. May have name or inscription inside cover, Email with questions, Items are uploaded with their own individual photo, but when Multiple Items are for sale only one representative photo may be shown. Actual Photos are availible upon request. Fast Shipping Monday Through Saturday! - Safe and Secure! Additional Details ------------------------------ Product description: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from III. Matt. vu. 13, 14. Enter ye in at the strait for wide is the gate, and brand tVt the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. Truth not seldom, as many have remarked, lies between two extremes : and there I believe that it lies in respect to the future punishment of sin. Some, though a fast-decreasing number amongst intelligent and thoughtful men, hold that in a future state the wicked will suffer everlasting torments, or, as it is sometimes styled, everlasting misery. It matters little which expression we choose. An existence positively evil for ever; an existence which is short of ease through endless millions of centuries, as a retribution of human sin, is, in my judgment, a punishment equally contrary to reason and to Scripture. Especially I reject it as contrary to Scripture, and I hope you will well observe that as yet all my arguments have been drawn from that volume. I am quite prepared to argue the question upon the ground of reason only; but at present our inquiry is, what is revealed in the sacred pages ? We leave reason now out of the question, except so far as weabsolutely need it to collate Scripture, and draw our conclusions. Some think that they render the doctrine of eternal misery more credible, or less shocking to the reflective and benevolent heart, by maintaining that eternal misery is not simply a penalty for the sins of this world but that with eternal misery there will be also eternal wickedness. But then they hold at the same time that all probation ceases here ; that there is no likelihood or even moral possibility of reform hereafter; but that the sinner grows worse and worse ; whence practicall... Subject code: