The use of religion if our future salvation is unconditional,..... .... Page 134 136 ......148, 149 Sin, according to endless misery, only takes us the sooner to hea- ven,. Bad society in heaven,. According to endless misery there are many more rogues saved than honest men,. The same doctrine furnishes motives to murder,.. A peep into a universalian, and an endless hell futurity, 150 ib. 151 152 ..154, 155 191 Is the doctrine of universal salvation generally pleasing to wicked And displeasing to men of prayer?..... The supposed remoteness of a day of reckoning for deeds perform- 192 198 199 The best, as the worst of men, must needs be changed after death The divine Being is not subject to the difficulties which beset hu- 236 God was not reduced to the alternative of creating some for mis- 237 Forgiveness of sin does not (in the divine economy) imply ex- 239 Another illustration of the same point,... 240 The advantages of forgiveness on this scheme,.. ib. If punishment is for our benefit, should we sin the more, in order 241 Difference between positive and moral punishments,. But when conscience becomes seared, how then?.. The penalty of death for murder does not operate to prevent it— The modes of punishment,... A consideration of that punishment which is natural to sin, (and 242 .247, 248 249 Neither can that which is physical,.. Except sin continue eternally, punishment, of a moral kind, can- ..250, 251 252, 253 253 The very consequences of an evil tend to effect its removal,.. 254 255 Exemplary punishment cannot be needed in the future state,.. 256 .257,258 According to endless misery punishment is both disproportionate and uncertain,.... The probable origin of hell,. Page. .261, 262 .278, 279 The foreknowledge of events, prove also their foreappointment,. 282, 283 It sin is of God's appointment, I will commit as much of it as I please,...... ......... 283 No rational ground betwixt foreknowledge and foreordination,.. 285, 286 The foreappointment of ends implies also a foreappointment of means,...... I am a free agent, for I can do as I please,.. .287, 288 290 God controls us by the agency of our will, not against it,. 294 295 Why suffer we for sin if it is unavoidable ?....... 297 298 .303, 304 Facts prove that our advantages over others are not of our own making,. Election does not necessarily imply reprobation,. It were partiality in God to pardon some who are as guilty as others whom he executes,.. 309 Why are means necessary for bringing about a result which is unchangeably foreordained?.. 310 312 God is as accountable for what he permits, as for what he ordains, We cannot form an adequate conception of eternity,. 315 319 326 If even there be no punishment in eternity, men may be advantaged according to their advancement in moral improvement in life,. 332 INDEX TO THE SCRIPTURE TEXTS COMMENTED ON IN THIS WORK, WHICH ARE Prov. i. 26. I also will laugh at your calamity, etc... Page. ....110, 111 Jude, verse 7. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about ...114, 115 also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, that I have great ......115, 116 Rom. x. 1. Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Ezek. xviii. 4. The soul that sinneth, it shall die,. 2 Cor. v. 10. For we must all appear before the judgment-scat Matt. xix. 16. What good thing shall I do, that I may inherit 116 135 ib. ib. 136 137-187 Matt. vii. 13. Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, 140, 141 Heb. xii. 14. Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord,. . . . 142 .157-187 Mal. iv. 1-6. Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, 162, 163 Matt. viii, 11, 12. Ye shall see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and 165 Luke xvi. 19-31. The rich man and Lazarus,. .167, 168, 181, 187 353 Page. 169 Matt. xxv. 1-12. The ten virgins,.. 186 ..170, 171 ..174, 175, 186, 187 ..180, 181 Matt. xxv. 46. And these shall go away into everlasting punish- ......202, 203 Acts xvii. 30, 31. Because he hath appointed a day, in the which ..............204, 205 2 Pet. iii. 7-13. But the heavens and the earth which are now, Heb. ix. 27. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this Eccles. viii. It. Because sentence against an evil work is not Dan. xii. 2. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth 218 219 .221, 222 |