Contents.

Prerace 1-iv.

CHAPTER 1.

On Hell, as a place of Future Punishment. The meanings of

Sheol, Hades, and Gehenna, considered, 1-13.

CHAPTER II.

The question considered whether men receive in this world all

the punishment which their sins deserve, 14—26.

CHAPTER III.

Same subject continued. The assertion, that men are fully

punished in this life for their sins proved to be false because

it is opposed to some of the fundamental doctrines of divine

Revelation-Such as salvation by the grace of God through

a Mediator_The Probationary character of the present life-

A future Judgment and future punishment-And the motive

to personal godliness derived from fear-Modern Univer-

salism is therefore necessarily destructive to the souls of

men, 27-43.

CHAPTER IV.

Salvation not absolute, but conditional-The will of God, as it

respects the salvation of men may be defeated, --Inferences,

44-52.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER V.

Preliminaries which the Restorationists must first establish before

they can derive any advantage from criticism on disputed

terms--absurdities involved in their belief, 53-58.

CHAPTER VI.

Scriptures cannot contain contradictory doctrines—The Future

state of Punishment, shown from the Scriptures, not to be a

state of discipline or trial Universalism, the offspring of the

Devil, and to be rejected, 59-84.

CHAPTER VII.

Means are not used in the future state for the purification of

damned spirits and for their restoration to the favour and im-

age of God-not the punishment itself-Penal sufferings not

corrective but the contrary, 85-100.

CHAPTER VIII.

Same subject continued The Word of God, Read or Preached,

not a means used for the recovery of the damned-nor the

sanctified efforts of the Pious--nor the Mediatorial and Inter-

cessory offices of Christ-nor the influence of the Holy

Spirit-Objection, that God can work without as well as with

means, answered, 101-115.

CHAPTER IX.

Objections from 1 Pet. ii. 18-20_1 Pet. iv. 6. and 1 Cor. iii,

15. answered, 116–124.

CHAPTER X.

The doctrine that the design of the means, if any, to be hereafter

used is to restore the souls of the damned to the kingdom of

heaven, ahown to be anscriptural, 125m 134.

CHAPTER XI.

If means are used in the eternal world for saving purposes, there

is no reason to believe, that, in every instance, they will

prove effectual-in hell, there is no freedom of the will to

good, 135-146.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER XII.

Argument from the benevolence of God as being inconsistent with

eternal punishment refuted-annihilation not the punishment

of the wicked, and is opposed by Universalism-Recapitula-

tion, 147-152.

N. B. The reader will observe that the first line page 107 is
placed first page 111. See Errata.

UNIVERSALISM UNSCRIPTURAL.

CHAPTER I. ON Hell, As A PLACE OF FUTURE PUNISHMENT. THE MEANINGS OF SHEOL, HADES, AND GEHENNA,

CONSIDERED. As this work professes to contain a refutation of Modern and Ancient Universalism, it will be necessary briefly to state, that the Ancient Universalists were the advocates of a limited future punishment, embracing the doctrine of the final restoration to eternal happiness in heaven of all lapsed intelligencies; but the Modern Universalists, as contradistinguished from the former, believe in no fulure punishment whatever, asserting that all men are punished in this world for their sins, and, on death, are immediately received to everduring felicity. Both opinions, however, are entertained by numerous persons at the present day :-- the term “modern” is given to distinguish the luter modification of Universalism from the former, not with the intention of conveying the idea that all the Universalists of the present age are unanimous in their rejection of a future limited punishment.

For the sake of method we shall cominence with the opinions of the moderns.