This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... tigation is not feared? The truth is, our doctrine is known to be reasonable, and to stand the test of inquiry-Hence everything is done which can be to make people distrust reason, surrender it entirely, and be governed wholly by feeling. This admission ought to convince all men that the doctrine of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1842 edition. Excerpt: ... tigation is not feared? The truth is, our doctrine is known to be reasonable, and to stand the test of inquiry-Hence everything is done which can be to make people distrust reason, surrender it entirely, and be governed wholly by feeling. This admission ought to convince all men that the doctrine of endless suffering has no foundation in truth; that it cannot be of God, but originated with man. This conclusion will be confirmed by considering, I. That it is unreasonable to suppose God will punish a finite creature with endless misery. It is impossible to discover any resemblance to justice in such a punishment. Justice would proportion punishment to the guilt of the offender. This is the idea which all men have of justice. We do not punish the offences of a child with the severity we do the offences of a man. Neither do we punish a trifling offence as severely as we do an aggravated one. Thus, punishment is always proportioned to crime. But if thus proportioned, how can any be doomed to endless suffering? Is not man finite? This is not a matter of dispute--all are agreed with regard to this. Hence, when it is said God will punish man endlessly for sins committed in this life, he is accused of infinite injustice, and represented as administering punishment without any reference to the magnitude of sin. "We cannot, then, see a shadow of justice in the infliction of endless pain; for such a punishment bears no proportion to sin. That is endless, but the sins are finite. It has been argued that the degree of misery will be in proportion to the degree of sin; that there will be all grades of condition, from that of comparatively light suffering, down to perfect wretchedness; that those who suffer the lightest degree of misery will be only one...
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