Exegetical essays on several words relating to future punishment

Introduction

There is no book more imperatively demanded by the religious controversies of the day than the one which we now reproduce. First issued thirtyseven years since, it has gone out of print, and is little known to the present generation ; but the questions which it discusses and settles are among those which now most agitate the Christian mind. What does the Bible teach with regard to the future world? — Do the sacred writers assert that there is an endless punishment in reserve for the ungodly? — Can any other interpretation than this fairly be given to the terms used in the Scriptures in describing the future of the impenitent ? Than these, no questions more momentous can present themselves to dying men ; and these our author undertakes to answer. The name of MOSES STUART is an assurance that the discussion will be logical,

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learned, and thoroughly honest : an examination of the work will verify this assurance. There is in it no concealment, no dodging of difficulties, no special pleading. As a true scholar, he seeks to learn that he may teach. His conclusions are irresistible.

To the present edition a syllabus of the contents of the book has been added ; and in some of the sections the texts have been distributed under heads, so as to be more readily apprehended by the reader.

That the cause of truth will be served by this publication, we have no doubt. May the God of Truth go with and bless it !