Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1834, by Asa Rand, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts. OBSERYER PRESS....LOWELL. gift Presbians INDEX. CHAPTER 1. On the Immortality of the Soul; or the Soul's Existence in the Intermediate State, CHAP. 11. On the subject of the Future Judgment, 39 CHAP. 111. Collateral Proofs of a Judgment to come, 55 CHAP. IV. Is the Eternal Life, promised to believers in the New Testament, a Life to be enjoyed beyond the grave, or only in this world ? CHAP. V. The signification of the words Everlasting, Eternal, Forever, &c. as applied to the punishment of CHAP. VI. Comments on Matthew xxiv. and xxv. 98 CHAP. VII. The place of Future Punishment, or the meaning of the words translated Hell. The meaning CHAP. viii. Meaning of Hades. Meaning of Tartarus, 120 CHAP. ix. The meaning of Gehena, 136 CHAP. X. The Existence and Agency of Evil Spirits, 156 CHAP. XI. Credulity of the disciples of Balfour, 183 CHAP. XII. Miscellaneous Proofs of Future Punishment, 198 112 A TABLE OF SCRIPTURE TEXTS, COMMENTED ON IN THIS VOLUME. 176 43 29 24 27 43 27 GENESIS. 3: 1. DEUTERONOMY. 32: 22. I. CHRONICLES. 11: 1. Јов. 1: 6. 14: 10. PSALMS. 6: 5. 9: 17. 49: 15. 109: 4. 115: 17. PROVERBS. 5: 5. ECCLESIASTES. 3: 19. 9: 5. 12: 7. - 14. ISAIAH. 33: 14. DANIEL. 12: 2,3: MATTHEW. 4: 1. 23. 31 174 198 30 44 92 52, 91 46 28 48 158 Acts. 19 1: 25. 2: 22. 19 23: 8. 116 ROMANS. 115 14: 10. 159 1. CORINTHIANS. 119 5: 5. II. CORINTHIANS. 117 5: 6. 11: 14. 26 5: 11. 19 PHILIPPIANS. 27 1: 21. 52 II. THESSALONIANS. 1: 6. 89 - 9. II. TIMOTHY. 4: 6. HEBREWS. 167 12: 23. 137 9. 27. 138 JAMES. 165 3: 6. 122 5: 19. 23 I. PETER. 39 1: 9. 123 5: 8. 20 II. PETER. 28 3: 7. 91 2: 4. 139 · 17. 68 JUDE. 140 7. 141 13. 91 14. REVELATIONS. 40 6: 9. 146 22 28. 36. 22 175 16: 18. 26. 17: 1. 18: 8. 92 7: 9. 144 14: 11. 19: 1. 170 20: 10. 172 22. 29 22: 8. 49 131 93 -9. 19: 27. 23: 15. - 33. 25: 41. MARK. 3: 28. 3: 22. 9: 43. LUKE. 10: 18. 13: 16. 16: 19. 93 93 50 25 25 94 94 94 51 33 INTRODUCTION. The following pages exhibit the substance of a course of Lectures, prepared and delivered by the writer to his own people. And the reasons which led him to think it expedient to give the lectures the form of a reply to Mr. Balfour, as the best means of counteracting the efforts of Universalists among the people of his charge, are equally good to show that this is the best mode of meeting the wants of the community in general. With regard to the immediate effect of the lectures, all the expectations of the writer, to say the least, have been realized. For offering the substance of them in this form to the public, I shall attempt no apology. For if the contents of the book do not avail to carry my justification to the reader, no prefatory apologies will do it. I have been for some time satisfied that a reply to Mr. Balfour, which shall embrace all the main principles of his theory, as published in his first and second “Inquiry,” in his “ Essays,” and in his “ Reply to Stuart,” is called for by the existing state of things. Replies to him in respect to parts of his system have been published, while the system has |
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