Présentation de l'éditeur
The present essay is an enlarged form of a single chapter of a previous work, and is designed to meet the convenience of those who rely, for their views of future lifej upon their reading and interpretation of the Scriptures. From the brief space allotted to this argument in the larger work, where it followed a detailed discussion of the difficulties which attend the doctrine of endless life in misery, a reviewer took occasion to surmise that the writer confided mainly in extrascriptural objections against that doctrine. It is proper here to reply that the argument thus criticised was purposely made compact, lest it should appear labored. For, in so grave a question, any plain verdict of the oracles of truth ought to be easily made out. And the writer thinks that the main feature of that argument the silence of the Scriptures respecting the immortality of the soul or of the race was misapprehended by this reviewer, and has been unnoticed by all others except one who is alluded to in the following pages. A gain, any long received doctrine gathers round itself much extra-scriptural support; linking itself in with all adjacent theology ;giving shape to all our modes of thought on kindred topics ;and acquiring a traditional momentum.
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