of them, since its publication, has excited the hope, that he has not written wholly in vain, and that these pages may, perhaps, be the means of speaking peace to the perturbed mind, and of solacing the sorrows of the

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CONTENTS.

Part First.

Of the Divine Government.

Sec. 1. Of the Proof of the Government of God ........

Sec. 2. Of the Manner in which the Divine Government

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is administered

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37

Sec. 3. Of the Design of the Divine Government, and of

the Proof that Evil is the means of producing

Ultimate Good

59

Part Second.

Introduction. Of the kind of Evidence which is necessary

to establish the Doctrine of the Ultimate Purity and

Happiness of all Mankind ..

Of the Evidence in favor of the Final Restoration of all

Mankind to Purity and Happiness, distinct from that

afforded by the express declarations of Scripture ..

CHAPTER I.

Of the Argument in favor of the Doctrine of Universal

Restoration, derived from the Perfections of God.

Sec. 1. Of the Goodness of God

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Sec. 2. Of the Evil of Defect, and of Natural and Moral

Evil

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Sec. 3. Of the Evils of the Social State, and especially of

the Evils which are alleged to result from the

Principle of Population ...

144

Sec. 4. Of the Design of God in the Creation, and of what

is really meant when it is said that he created

the World for his own Glory...

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Sec. 5. Of the Universality of the Divine Benevolence

Sec. 6. Of the Impossibility of frustrating the Design of

the Deity ....

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220

Sec. 7. Of the Harmony of the Divine Perfections...... 223

CHAPTER II.

Of the Argument in favor of the Doctrine of Universal

Restoration, from the Nature of Man

CHAPTER III.

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232

Of the Argument in favor of the Doctrine of Universal

Restoration, from the Nature and Object of Punish-

ment; and of the Proof that the Future Punishment

of the Wicked will be corrective, in answer to the

Objections and Reasonings of Dr. Jonathan Edwards 250

Part Third.

Of the Objections which are urged against the Doctrine of

Universal Restoration, whether derived from those

Passages of Scripture, or from those reasonings which

are supposed to prove the Doctrine of Endless Mi-

sery, or from those which are conceived to favor the

Doctrine of Limited Punishment, terminated by De-

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Sec. 2. Of the Application of the same word to the Hap-

piness of the Righteous, and the Punishment of

the Wicked..

Sec. 3. Of the Argument in favor of Endless Misery, de-

rived from the phrase Unquenchable Fire 314

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323

Sec. 4. Of the Argument in favor of Endless Misery,

founded on the case of Judas......

Sec. 5. Of the Argument in favor of Endless Misery, de-

rived from the language which is used concerning

the Sin against the Holy Ghost................ 327

Sec. 6. Of the Argument in favor of Endless Misery, de-

duced from the Parable of the Great Gulph..... 335

Sec. 7. Of the Opinion that there will be no successive

duration in a Future State........

CHAPTER II.

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Of the Arguments conceived to favor the Doctrine of End-

less Misery, which are not founded on the express

declarations of Scripture

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338

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342

ib.

Sec. 1. Of the Infinite Evil of Sin...

Sec. 2. Of the Argument in favor of Endless Misery,

founded on the Divine Justice, with an Examina-

tion of the Reasonings of Dr. Edwards on this

subject..

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Sec. 3. Of the Argument in favor of Endless Misery,

founded on the Divine Sovereignty

CHAPTER III.

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Of the Doctrine of Limited Punishment, terminated by

Destruction.....

Part Fourth.

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375

Of the Scriptural Evidence in favor of the Doctrine of the

Final Restoration of all Mankind to Purity and Hap-

piness

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400

CHAPTER I.

Of the passages of Scripture which imply that all Mankind

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will be ultimately restored to Purity and Happiness 405

CHAPTER II.

Of the passages of Scripture which appear expressly to affirm that all Mankind will be restored to Purity and Happiness...........

Appendix....

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