Chapter XXXVI: Appendix
MORALITY OF THE DOCTRINE OF A FUTURE LIFE.
The following is from “The Doctrine of a Future Life,” by W. R. Alger. He here discusses the “morality of the doctrine of a future life” on the strong hypothesis that there is to be no existence hereafter, and utterly disproves the conclusions which some would make the inevitable consequence of such a doctrine. The same objections are urged against the view we entertain that after the Judgment the sinner is to endure a punishment which reaches its climax in the loss of existence. With a hundred-fold more force the reasoning of Mr. Alger lies against these objections when urged in opposition to our view. We have in this life the great incentive to goodness and virtue, that is involved in the hope of immortality, seconded by the wonderful intervention of Christ in our behalf, which is calculated to arouse all the nobler sentiments of our being. If this will not win men from sin to a holy life, they would not be driven to it by threats of eternal torture. Mr. Alger says:--
“The morality of the doctrine of a future life having thus been defended from the attacks of those who have sought to destroy it in the fancied interests either of the enjoyments of the earth, or of the purity of virtue and religion, it now remains to free it from the still more fatal supports which false or superficial religionists have sought to give it by wrenching out of it meanings it never held, by various perverse abuses of it, by monstrous exaggerations of its moral importance to the present. We have seen that the supposition of another life, correctly interpreted, lays no new duty upon man, takes away from him no old duty or privilege, but simply gives to the previously-existing facts of the case the intensifying glory and strength of fresh light, motive, and consolation. But many public teachers, not content to treat the subject with this sobriety of reason, instead of presenting the careful conclusions of a conscientious analysis, have sought to strengthen their argument to the feelings by help of prodigious assumptions, assumptions hastily adopted, highly colored, and authoritatively urged. Upon the hypothesis that annihilation is the fate of man, they are not satisfied merely to take away from the present all the additional light, incentive, and comfort, imparted by the faith in a future existence, but they arbitrarily remove all the alleviations and glories intrinsically belonging to the scene, and paint it in the most horrible hues, and set it in a frame of midnight. Thus, instead of calmly seeking to elicit and recommend truth, they strive, by terrifying the fancy and shocking the prejudices, to make people accept their dogma because frightened at the seeming consequences of rejecting it. It is necessary to expose the fearful fallacies which have been employed in this way, and which are yet extensively used for the same purpose.
“Even a Christian writer usually so judicious as Andrews Norton has said: ‘Without the belief in personal immortality there can be no religion; for what can any truths of religion concern the feelings and the conduct of beings whose existence is limited to a few years in this world?’ Such a statement from such a quarter is astonishing. Surely the sentiments natural to a person or incumbent upon him do not depend on the _duration_ of his being, but on the character, endowments, and relations of his being. The hypothetical fact that man perishes with his body does not destroy God, does not destroy man’s dependence on God for all his privileges, does not annihilate the overwhelming magnificence of the universe, does not alter the native sovereignty of holiness, does not quench our living reason, imagination, or sensibility, while they last. The soul’s gratitude, wonder, love, and worship, are just as right and instinctive as before. If our experience on earth, before the phenomena of the visible creation and in conscious communion with the emblemed attributes of God, does not cause us to kneel in humility and to adore in awe, then it may be doubted if Heaven or hell will ever persuade us to any sincerity in such acts. The simple prolongation of our being does not add to its qualitative contents, cannot increase the kinds of our capacity or the number of our duties. Chalmers utters an injurious error in saying as he does, ‘If there be no future life, the moral constitution of man is stripped of its significancy, and the Author of that constitution is stripped of his wisdom, and authority and honor.’ The creative Sovereign of fifty million firmaments of worlds, ‘stripped of his wisdom and authority and honor,’ because a few insects on a little speck are not eternal! Can egotistic folly any further go? The affirmation or denial of immortality neither adds to nor diminishes the numerical relations and ingredients of our nature and experience. If religion is fitted for us on the former supposition, it is also on the latter. To any dependent intelligence blessed with our human susceptibilities, reverential love and submission are as obligatory, natural and becoming on the brink of annihilation as on the verge of immortality. Rebellious egotism makes all the difference. Truth is truth, whatever it be. Religion is the meek submission of self-will to God’s will. That is a duty not to be escaped, no matter what the future reserves or excludes for us.
“Another sophism almost universally accepted needs to be shown. Man, it is said, has no interest in a future life if not conscious in it of the past. If, on exchange of worlds, man loses his memory, he virtually ceases to exist, and might just as well be annihilated. A future life with perfect oblivion of the present is no life at all for us. Is not this style of thought the most provincial egotism, the utter absence of all generous thought and sympathy unselfishly grasping the absolute boons of being? It is a shallow error, too, even on the grounds of selfishness itself. In any point of view the difference is diametric and immense between a happy being in an eternal present, unconscious of the past, and no being at all. Suppose a man thirty years of age were offered his choice to die this moment, or to live fifty years longer of unalloyed success and happiness, only with a complete forgetfulness of all that has happened up to this moment. He would not hesitate to grasp the gift, however much he regretted the condition.
“It has often been argued that with the denial of a retributive life beyond the grave all restraints are taken off from the passions, free course given to every impulse. Chateaubriand says bluntly, ‘There can be no morality if there be no future state.’ With displeasing coarseness, and with most reprehensible recklessness of reasoning, Luther says, in contradiction to the essential nobleness of his loving, heroic nature, ‘If you believe in no future life, I would not give a mushroom for your God. Do, then, as you like. For if no God, so no devil, no hell: as with a fallen tree, all is over when you die. Then plunge into lechery, rascality, robbery, and murder.’ What bible of Moloch had he been studying to form, for the time, so horrid a theory of the happiest life, and to put so degrading an estimate upon human nature? Is man’s will a starved wolf, only held back by the triple chain of fear of death, Satan, and hell, from tearing forth with ravenous bounds to flesh the fangs of his desires in bleeding virtue and innocence? Does the greatest satisfaction man is capable of here, the highest blessedness he can attain to, consist in drunkenness, gluttony, dishonesty, violence, and impiety? If he had the appetite of a tiger or a vulture,--then, thus to wallow in the offal of vice, dive into the carrion of sensuality, abandon himself to reveling in carnivorous crime, might be his instinct and his happiness. But by virtue of his humanity man loves his fellows, enjoys the scenery of nature, takes delight in thought and art, dilates with grand presentiments of glory and eternity, mysteriously yearns after the hidden God. To a reasonable man--and no other is to be reasoned with on matters of truth and interest--the assumption of this brief season as all, will be a double motive not to hasten and imbitter its brevity by folly, excess, and sin. If you are to be dead to-morrow, for that very reason, in God’s name, do not, by gormandizing and guzzling, anticipate death to-day! The true restraint from wrong and degradation is not a crouching conscience of superstition and selfishness, fancying a chasm of fire, but a high-toned conscience of reason and honor, perceiving that they _are_ wrong and degradation, and spontaneously loathing them.
“Still worse, many esteemed authors have not hesitated to assert that unless there be a future life there is not only no check on passion within, but no moral law without: every man is free to do what he pleases, without blame or fault. Sir Kenelm Digby says, in his ‘Treatise on Man’s Soule,’ that ‘to predicate mortality in the soule taketh away all morality, and changeth men into beastes, by removing the ground of all difference in those thinges which are to governe our actions.’ This style of teaching is a very mischievous absurdity. Admit, for a moment, that Jocko in the woods of Brazil, and Schiller in the brilliant circles of Weimar, will at last meet the same fate in the dusty grasp of death; yet, while they live, one is an ape, the other is a man. And the differences of capacity and of duty are numberless and immense. The statement is enough: argument would be ridiculous. The words of an audacious French preacher are yet more shocking than those of the English nobleman. It is hard to believe they could be uttered in good faith. Says Massillon, in his famous declamation on immortality, ‘If we wholly perish with the body, the maxims of charity, patience, justice, honor, gratitude, and friendship, are but empty words. Our own passions shall decide our duty. If retribution terminate with the grave, morality is a mere chimera, a bugbear of human invention.’ What debauched unbeliever ever inculcated a viler or a more fatal doctrine? Its utter baselessness, as a single illustration may show, is obvious at a glance. As the sciences of algebra and geometry, the relations of numbers and bodies, are true for the material world although they may be lost sight of when time and space are transcended in some higher state, so the science of ethics, the relations of nobler and baser, of right and wrong, the manifold grades and qualities of actions and motives, are true for human nature and experience in this life even if men perish in the grave. However soon certain facts are to end, while they endure they are as they are. In a moment of carelessness, by some strange slip of the mind,--showing, perhaps, how tenaciously rooted are the common prejudice and falsehood on this subject,--even so bold and fresh a thinker as Theodore Parker has contradicted his own philosophy by declaring, ‘If to-morrow I perish utterly, then my fathers will be to me only as the ground out of which my bread-corn is grown. I shall care nothing for the generations of mankind. I shall know no higher law than passion. Morality will vanish.’ Ah, man reveres his fathers, and loves to act nobly, not because he is to live forever, but because he is a man. And, though all the summer hopes of escaping the grave were taken from human life, choicest and tenderest virtues might still flourish, as it is said the German cross-bill pairs and broods in the dead of winter. The martyr’s sacrifice and the voluptuary’s indulgence are very different things to-day, if they do both cease to-morrow. No speed of advancing destruction can equalize Agamemnon and Thersites, Mansfield and Jeffries, or hustle together justice and fraud, cowardice and valor, purity and corruption, so that they will interchange qualities. There is an eternal and immutable morality, as whiteness is white, and blackness is black, and triangularity is triangular. And no severance of temporal ties or compression of spatial limits can ever cut the condign bonds of duty and annihilate the essential distinctions of good and evil, magnanimity and meanness, faithfulness and treachery.
“Reducing our destiny from endless to definite cannot alter the inherent rightfulness and superiority of the claims of virtue. The most it can do is to lessen the strength of the motive, to give the great motor-nerve of our moral life a perceptible stroke of palsy. In reference to the question, Can ephemera have a moral law? Richter reasons as follows: ‘Suppose a statue besouled for two days. If on the first day you should shatter it, and thus rob it of one day’s life, would you be guilty of murder? One can injure only an immortal.’ The sophistry appears when we rectify the conclusion thus: one can inflict an _immortal_ injury only on an immortal being. In fact, it would appear to be a greater wrong and injury, for the time, to destroy one day’s life of a man whose entire existence was confined to two days, than it would be to take away the same period from the bodily existence of one who immediately thereupon passes into a more exalted and eternal life. To the sufferer, the former would seem an immitigable calamity, the latter a benign furtherance; while, in the agent, the overt act is the same. This general moral problem has been more accurately answered by Isaac Taylor, whose lucid statement is as follows: ‘The creatures of a summer’s day might be imagined, when they stand upon the threshold of their term of existence, to make inquiry concerning the attributes of the Creator and the rules of his government; for these are to be the law of their season of life and the measure of their enjoyments. The sons of immortality would put the same questions with an intensity the greater from the greater stake.’
“Practically, the acknowledged authority of the moral law in human society cannot be destroyed. Its influence may be unlimitedly weakened, its basis variously altered, but as a confessed sovereign principle it cannot be expelled. The denial of the freedom of the will theoretically explodes it; but social custom, law, and opinion will enforce it still. Make man a mere dissoluble mixture of carbon and magnetism, yet so long as he can distinguish right and wrong, good and evil, love and hate, and, unsophisticated by dialectics, can follow either of opposite courses of action, the moral law exists and exerts its sway. It has been asked, ‘If the incendiary be, like the fire he kindles, a result of material combinations, shall he not be treated in the same way?’ We should reply thus: No matter what man springs from or consists of, if he has moral ideas, performs moral actions, and is susceptible of moral motives, then he is morally responsible; for all practical and disciplinary purposes he is wholly removed from the categories of physical science.
“Another pernicious misrepresentation of the fair consequences of the denial of a life hereafter is shown in the frequent declaration that then there would be no motive to any thing good and great. The incentives which animate men to strenuous services, perilous virtues, disinterested enterprises, spiritual culture, would cease to operate. The essential life of all moral motives would be killed. This view is to be met by a broad and indignant denial based on an appeal to human consciousness and to the reason of the thing. Every man knows by experience that there are a multitude of powerful motives, entirely disconnected with future reward or punishment, causing him to resist evil and to do good even with self-sacrificing toil and danger. When the fireman risks his life to save a child from the flames of a tumbling house, is the hope of Heaven his motive? When the soldier spurns an offered bribe and will not betray his comrades nor desert his post, is the fear of hell all that animates him? A million such decisive specifications might be made. The renowned sentence of Cicero, “_Nemo unquam sine magna spe immortalitatis se pro patria offerret ad mortem_,” is effective eloquence; but it is a baseless libel against humanity and the truth. In every moment of supreme nobleness and sacrifice, personality vanishes. Thousands of patriots, philosophers, saints, have been glad to die for the freedom of native land, the cause of truth, the welfare of fellow-men, without a taint of selfish reward touching their wills. Are there not souls
‘To whom dishonor’s shadow is a substance
More terrible than death here and hereafter.’
He must be the basest of men who would decline to do any sublime act of virtue because he did not expect to enjoy the consequences of it eternally. Is there no motive for the preservation of health because it cannot be an everlasting possession? Since we cannot eat sweet and wholesome food forever, shall we therefore at once saturate our stomachs with nauseating poisons?
“If all experienced good and evil wholly terminate for us when we die, still, every intrinsic reason which, on the supposition of immortality, makes wisdom better than folly, industry better than sloth, righteousness better than iniquity, benevolence and purity better than hatred and corruption, also makes them equally preferable while they last. Even if the philosopher and the idiot, the religious philanthropist and the brutal pirate, did die alike, who would not rather live like the sage and the saint than like the fool and the felon? Shall Heaven be held before man simply as a piece of meat before a hungry dog to make him jump well? It is a shocking perversion of the grandest doctrine of faith. Let the theory of annihilation assume its direst phase, still, our perception of principles, our consciousness of sentiments, our sense of moral loyalty, are not dissolved, but will hold us firmly to every noble duty until we ourselves flow into the dissolving abyss. But some one may say, ‘If I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me if the dead rise not?’ It advantageth you everything _until you are dead_, although there be nothing afterwards. As long as you live is it not glory and reward enough _to have conquered_ the beasts at Ephesus? This is sufficient reply to the unbelieving flouters at the moral law. And, as an unanswerable refutation of the feeble whine of sentimentality that without immortal endurance nothing is worthy our affection, let great Shakespeare advance, with his matchless depth of bold insight reversing the conclusion, and pronouncing, in tones of cordial solidity,--
‘This, thou perceivest, will make thy love more strong,
To love that well which thou must leave ere long.’
“What though Decay’s shapeless hand extinguish us? Its foreflung and enervating shadow shall neither transform us into devils nor degrade us into beasts.
“The future life, outside of the realm of faith, to an earnest and independent inquirer, and considered as a scientific question, lies in a painted mist of uncertainty. There is room for hope, and there is room for doubt. The wavering evidences in some moods preponderate on that side, in other moods, on this side. Meanwhile it is clear that, while he lives here, the best thing he can do is to cherish a devout spirit, cultivate a noble character, lead a pure and useful life in the service of wisdom, humanity, and God, and finally, when the appointed time arrives, meet the issue with reverential and affectionate conformity, without dictating terms. Let the vanishing man say, like Ruckert’s dying flower, ‘Thanks to-day for all the favors I have received from sun and stream and earth and sky,--for all the gifts from men and God which have made my little life an ornament and a bliss. Heaven, stretch out thine azure tent while my faded one is sinking here. Joyous spring-tide, roll on through ages yet to come, in which fresh generations shall rise and be glad. Farewell all! Content to have had my turn, I now fall asleep, without a murmur or a sigh.’ Surely the mournful nobility of such a strain of sentiment is preferable by much to the selfish terror of that unquestioning belief which in the Middle Age depicted the chase of the soul by Satan, on the columns and doors of the churches, under the symbol of a deer pursued by a hunter and hounds; and which has in later times produced in thousands the feeling thus terribly expressed by Bunyan, ‘I blessed the condition of the dog and toad because they had no soul to perish under the everlasting weight of hell!’
“Sight of truth, with devout and loving submission to it, is an achievement whose nobleness outweighs its sorrow, even if the gazer foresee his own destruction.
“It is not our intention in these words to cast doubt on the immortality of the soul, or to depreciate the value of a belief in it. We desire to vindicate morality and religion from the unwitting attacks made on them by many self-styled Christian writers in their exaggeration of the practical importance of such a faith. The qualitative contents of human nature have nothing to do with its quantitative contents: our duties rest not on the length, but on the faculties and relations, of our existence. Make the life of a dog endless, he has only the capacity of a dog; make the life of a man finite, still, within its limits, he has the psychological functions of humanity. Faith in immortality may enlarge and intensify the motives to prudent and noble conduct; it does not create new ones. The denial of immortality may pale and contract those motives; it does not take them away.
“Knowing the burden and sorrow of earth, brooding in dim solicitude over the far times and men yet to be, we cannot recklessly utter a word calculated to lessen the hopes of man, pathetic creature, who weeps into the world and faints out of it. It is our faith--not knowledge--that the spirit is without terminus or rest. The faithful truth-hunter, in dying, finds not a covert, but a better trail. Yet the saintliness of the intellect is to be purged from prejudice and self-will. With God we are not to prescribe conditions. The thought that all high virtue and piety must die with the abandonment of belief in immortality is as pernicious and dangerous as it is shallow, vulgar, and unchristian. The view is obviously gaining prevalence among scientific and philosophical thinkers, that life is the specialization of the universal in the individual, death the restoration of the individual to the whole. This doubt as to a personal future life will unquestionably increase. Let traditional teachers beware how they venture to shift the moral law from its immutable basis in the will of God to a precarious poise on the selfish hope and fear of man. The sole safety, the ultimate desideratum, is perception of law with disinterested conformity.”--_Doctrine of a Future Life_, pp. 652-661.
INDEX OF AUTHORS QUOTED.
Alger, W. R., 264, 345 Alleine, Jos., 257 Andrews, S. J., 140 Augustine, 273
Baptist Confession, 219 Barnes, A., 117, 317 Benson, 302, 303 Bloomfield, 97, 147 Buck, Chas., 47 Bush, Geo., 43, 101 Butler, Wm. A., 314
Carmichael, A., 233 Chaldee Paraphrase, 76 Chapin, E. H., 335 Cicero, 9, 273 Clarke, A., 32, 36, 43, 86, 90, 140, 167, 257, 295 Conant, T. J., 32 Constable, H., 303, 340 Crellius, J., 206 Cruden, 294
Dalton, 328 Dobney, H. H., 8, 263, 328 Douay Bible, 76
Eusebius, 285
Gesenius, 51 Greenfield, 283, 292
Ham, J. P., 331 Hobbs, 9 Hogg, James, 327 Homer, 285 Hudson, C. F., 278
Kitto, 41
Landis, R. W., 45, 58, 59, 61, 64, 73, 77, 89, 94, 105, 122, 162, 170, 172, 175, 203 Law, Bishop, 205, 242 Lee, Luther, 101, 140, 210, 274, 323 Leeland, 333 Liddell & Scott, 292 Locke, John, 228, 328 Longfellow, 224 Luther, 76
Mattison, H., 36 Moncrieff, W. G., 326 Muller, Dr., 233
Newton, Bp., 318
Olshausen, 49, 321
Parkhurst, 51, 53, 102, 293 Priestly, Dr., 206 Pritchard, 328
Robinson, 53, 293
Saurin, 317 Scott, Thos., 32 Schrevelius, 292 Schleusner, 293 Seneca, 9 Septuagint, 76 Socrates, 9 Smith, Sidney, 324 Smith, Wm., 49 Stuart, Moses, 8, 296 Syriac Version, 76
Taylor, I., 319 Taylor, Dr. J., 51, 229 Tillotson, Bp., 337 Trench, 167 Tyndale, Wm., 233
Vincent, Thos., 301
Wahl, 294 Wakefield, 147 Warburton, Bp., 324 Watson, 70 Watts, Isaac, 228 Wesley, 70 Wetstein, 285 Whately, R., 333 Whedon, D. D., 224
INDEX
--OF--
THE PRINCIPAL TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE
ILLUSTRATED OR EXPLAINED.
GENESIS.
PAGE.
1: 20, 21, 24, 30, 43
1: 26, 27, 21
2: 2, 67
2: 7, 31, 36, 54
2: 16, 17, 218
3: 4, 14
3: 19, 221
4: 9, 10, 117
5: 3, 24, 70
7: 15, 21, 22, 33, 34
9: 6, 26
14: 21, 50
15: 15, 123
16: 22, 27
17: 14, 51
18: 1-8, 27
18: 25, 312
23: 8, 50
25: 8, 122
25: 17-20, 165
32: 24, 27
35: 18, 48, 54, 101
37: 35, 157
EXODUS.
4: 32, 145
22: 18, 129
23: 9, 50
24: 9-11, 28
31: 14, 51
32: 32, 307
33: 20, 29
33: 21-23, 28
LEVITICUS.
11: 10, 51
19: 31; 20: 27, 129
NUMBERS.
6: 6, 41, 50
16: 22, 91
16: 30, 33, 157
19: 13, 119
22: 31, 27
25: 1-3, 131
27: 16, 91
DEUTERONOMY.
18: 9-12, 129
32: 22, 158
JOSHUA.
10: 30, 51
24: 2, 123
JUDGES.
9: 7-15, 162
13: 6, 13, 27
1 SAMUEL.
2: 9, 159
15: 23, 135
26: 24, 77
28: 3-20, 127
1 KINGS.
2: 36-46, 223
17: 21, 48, 103
17: 22, 103, 143
2 KINGS.
4: 34, 143
14: 9, 162
1 CHRONICLES.
10: 13, 134
2 CHRONICLES.
36: 19: 21, 280
JOB.
3: 11-18, 236
4: 11-19, 160
7: 21, 214
10: 8-11, 69
14: 12-15, 159, 237
14: 21, 236
17: 13-16, 160, 237
19: 25, 26, 250
26: 4, 52
30: 15, 50
32: 8, 66
33: 18, 20, 22, 51
34: 14, 15, 57
PSALMS.
2: 9, 306
6: 5, 158, 238
7: 11, 301
16: 10, 156
17: 15, 240, 250
27: 12, 50
30: 2, 3, 157
31: 5, 77
31: 17, 159
37: 10, 305
37: 20, 281, 306, 309
49: 14, 15, 51
49: 20, 306
58: 7, 8, 306
64: 1, 78
68: 2, 306
78: 18, 51
88: 10-12, 160
89: 48, 157
89: 88, 51
90: 10, 125
106: 28, 131
115: 17, 159, 238
139: 7, 27
145: 20, 303
146: 3, 4, 33, 159, 236
PROVERBS.
10: 25, 306
11: 31, 309
20: 7, 52
23: 2, 50
ECCLESIASTES.
3: 19, 20, 35
3: 21, 72
9: 3, 126
9: 5, 6, 10, 84, 114, 237
12: 7, 48, 56
12: 14, 315
ISAIAH.
1: 30, 31, 306
5: 14, 158
5: 20-24, 309
10: 25, 301
14: 9-20, 158, 164
14: 11, 282
17: 13, 306
26: 19, 238, 250
34: 9, 10, 290
34: 12, 306
38: 10-19, 159
38: 17, 51
38: 18, 19, 238
42: 7, 92
44: 2, 69
51: 8, 282, 306
53: 10-12, 93, 139
57: 16, 50, 69
61: 1, 92
66: 24, 282
JEREMIAH.
1: 5, 69
17 27, 280
31: 9, 146
31: 15-17, 165, 253
EZEKIEL.
18: 26, 299, 315
20: 47, 48, 281
31: 15-18, 158, 165
32: 18-32, 158
DANIEL.
7: 10, 82
12: 2, 235, 268
HOSEA.
12: 4, 27
AMOS.
5: 4, 6, 230
OBADIAH.
1: 16, 305
JONAH.
1: 2, 158
4: 3, 78
HABAKKUK.
1: 7, 98
2: 11, 117
ZECHARIAH.
9: 12, 180
12: 1, 64, 66
MALACHI.
4: 1-3, 306, 310
MATTHEW.
2: 17, 18, 165
3: 12, 306
5: 22, 29, 30, 108
10: 28, 105, 108
11: 23, 108
13: 40, 47, 49, 306
16: 18, 108
16: 25, 26, 110
17: 1-9, 137
18: 9, 108
22: 23-32, 149
23: 15, 33, 108
24: 26, 96
24: 30, 31, 169
25: 31, 34, 261
25: 41, 46, 269, 271
26: 24, 267
26: 38, 93
27: 52, 53, 231, 285
MARK.
6: 9, 96
9: 43, 45, 47, 108
9: 43, 44, 279
12: 23-25, 152
LUKE.
1: 11, 13, 28, 29, 27
4: 18-21, 92
6: 49, 306
7: 14, 144
8: 40, 45, 144
10: 15, 108
12: 4, 5, 105, 108
13: 28, 171
14: 13, 14, 252
15: 11, 164
16: 19, 31, 108, 154, 161
17: 27, 29, 306
20: 35, 153
23: 39-43, 172
23: 46, 48, 77
24: 29, 29
24: 39, 95
24: 43, 139
JOHN.
1: 18, 29
3: 6, 68
3: 16, 304
3: 36, 267
4: 24, 27, 98
5: 27, 29, 142, 144
5: 28, 29, 232
10: 15, 78
11: 24, 231
13: 38, 78
14: 1-3, 256
15: 6, 306
21: 18, 19, 214
21: 22, 23, 257
ACTS.
1: 9-11, 29
2: 27, 31, 108, 156
2: 29, 34, 35, 239
7: 15, 77
7: 60, 235
12: 7-9, 27
13: 36, 124
13: 46, 312
17: 31, 63, 260, 271
23: 8, 97
21: 15, 144, 232
24: 25, 260
26: 7, 232
26: 23, 146
ROMANS.
1: 4, 93
1: 23, 15, 20, 30
2: 7, 17, 230, 304
3: 20, 68
5: 12-14, 227
6: 12, 69
6: 23, 230, 300
8: 11, 69, 94, 248
8: 22, 23, 185, 200
8: 29, 143
8: 38, 39, 210
9: 3, 308
1 CORINTHIANS.
5: 5, 98, 200
9: 25, 15
10: 20, 131
11: 7, 26
15: 18, 240
15: 20, 23, 143, 235
15: 32, 254
15: 35, 36, 247
15: 42-44, 19, 42, 248
15: 46, 47, 49, 25, 42, 249
15: 50, 19
15: 51-55, 15, 17, 19, 108, 200
2 CORINTHIANS.
1: 8, 9, 251
4: 11, 69
4: 14, 251
4: 16, 212
5: 4, 69, 200
5: 8, 183
5: 10, 315
12: 2, 173
12: 2-4, 195
GALATIANS.
1: 5, 291
5: 19, 21, 99
EPHESIANS.
1: 20, 29
4: 22, 24, 25, 193
5: 27, 251
6: 24, 20
PHILIPPIANS.
1: 21-24, 200
2: 5, 6, 29
3: 20, 100
3: 21, 42, 85, 249
3: 11, 231
3: 8-11, 251
COLOSSIANS.
1: 15, 18, 29, 143
1: 27, 212
3: 3, 97
3: 4, 103, 200
3: 9, 10, 24, 212
1 THESSALONIANS.
4: 13, 14, 16, 17, 142, 169, 200, 212,
235
1 TIMOTHY.
1: 10, 147
1: 17, 15, 30, 36
2: 1, 200
6: 16, 18, 56
2 TIMOTHY.
1: 10, 18
4: 6, 213
4: 7, 8, 200
TITUS.
2: 7, 20
HEBREWS.
1: 1-3, 30
1: 6, 143
1: 7, 14, 27
2: 14, 311
5: 9, 270
6: 2, 270
8: 1, 29
9: 12, 271
9: 27, 259
10: 39, 304
11: 3, 293
11: 16, 153
11: 35, 231
12: 9, 23, 91
JAMES.
1: 15, 300
1: 18, 145
3: 6, 108
1 PETER.
1: 11, 139
1: 12, 91
1: 4, 23, 16
1: 23-25, 68
3: 4, 16
3: 18-20, 87
4: 17, 298
5: 4, 254
2 PETER.
1: 16, 141
2: 4, 9, 109, 215, 261
2: 6, 287
2: 5, 6, 12, 306
3: 7-12 261, 310
1 JOHN.
5: 11, 12, 192, 304
JUDE.
1: 6, 261
1: 7, 286
REVELATION.
1: 5, 143
1: 18, 93, 108
2: 7, 173
4: 5, 27
5: 6, 27
6: 8, 108
6: 9-11, 113, 169
13: 1-10, 289
13: 14-18, 289
14: 4, 145
14: 1-5, 289
14: 11, 288
15: 3, 312
16: 3, 44
20: 5, 144, 215
20: 10, 291
20: 11-15, 108, 109, 158
21: 4, 15, 291
21: 5, 309
22: 1, 2, 174
22: 8, 9, 215
GENERAL INDEX.
Abraham’s ancestors idolaters, 123
Abel’s blood cried from the ground to God, 117
Absent from the body, meaning of, 183
Adam threatened with literal death, 228,
testimony of Locke, Watts, and Taylor, 228,
his condition in his creation, 229
A dishonorable perversion, 53, 54
_Aion_, meaning of, according to Greenfield, Schrevelius, Liddell and
Scott, Parkhurst, Robinson, Schleusner, and Wahl, 292, 293
_Aionios_, meaning of, 295
Analogies of nature, 335
Analogy between sleep and death, 235
Anecdote of the reasoning powers of brutes, 327
Annihilation impossible, 337
Angels not the ancient prophets, 215
An ancient case of modern spiritualism, 136
_Anastasis_, meaning of, 231
A clean universe at last, 311
An illustration on future punishment, 315
Anomalies of the present state, 336
A spirit, or spiritual being, what, 27
A spirit hath not flesh and bones, 95,
note by Bloomfield, 97
A threefold death disproved, 219
Attempt to understand the popular idea of a spirit, 326
_Athanasia_, _aphthartos_, and _aphtharsia_, use and meaning of, 15, 19
Bible views of future punishment produce the best effect, 319
Can the soul be killed? 105
Capacities of the soul, 330
Christ the express image of God, 29, 30
Christ, the first-fruits, first-begotten, and first-born, how, 143-145
Christ first raised from the dead, exposition of Acts 26:23, 146
Christ and the Sadducees 149
Clarke on Gen. 2:7, 32,
on Heb. 12:22, 86,
his key to the words forever and ever, 295
Comma, in its present form, when invented, 179
Conant on Gen. 2:7; Isa. 2:22, 32
Connection between our present and future being, testimony of Bishop
Law, 205,
Crellius and Priestly, 206
Criticism, a desperate case of, 176
Cruden on the words eternal, everlasting, and forever, 294
Day in Gen. 2:17, meaning of, 223
Date of Samuel’s ministry, 128
Date of Saul’s reign, 128
Death a punishment, 272,
Augustine’s testimony, 273,
no relief to the sinner, 278
Deeds done in the body only to be judged, 315
David not ascended to Heaven, 239
Departing and being with Christ, 199
Death of Adam, the same that is threatened against the sinner, 299
Departure and return of the soul, 100,
note by Luther Lee, 101,
by Prof. Bush, 101,
by Parkhurst, 102
Destiny of the wicked: they shall be destroyed, 303,
shall perish, go to perdition, and be as though they had not been,
304,
their doom set forth in language that is not figurative, 305,
they are compared to the most inflammable substances, 305,
they shall be consumed and devoured by fire, 308
Earthly house, what, 185
Eternal torment threatened to no one, 289
Eternal suffering not proportioned to the sins of a finite life, 313
Eternal fire, Jude 7,
illustrated and explained, 286
Everlasting fire, 270
Everlasting punishment, 271
Evil tendency of the doctrine of the destruction of the wicked, 338
Expressions used to describe the final condition of the wicked, 303
Future punishment eternal, 267,
it consists in death, 299
Gathered to his people, meaning of, 120,
sees corruption, 124
_Ge-enna_, the hell of Mark 9:43, 44,
meaning of, 283
God not a God of the dead but of the living, meaning of, 153
God’s dealings with his creatures, 312
God a person, 28
_Hades_ and _sheol_, meaning of, 156,
use of the word _sheol_, 157,
who go there, and the duration of its dominion, 157,
its location, 158,
condition of the righteous there, 158,
general character of, 159,
no knowledge there, 160
Hell, words so translated, 107
Hinnom, valley of, a figure of the place of future punishment, 283
_Holam_, Hebrew, corresponding to aion, defined by Gesenius, 294
House from Heaven, what, 185
Idumea, threatenings against, 290,
the language illustrates Rev. 14:11, 290
Immortal and immortality, how often used in the Bible, 13-20
Immortality assumed, 337
Immaterial souls of brutes, 323,
the testimony of Bishop Warburton, 324
Instinct not the only reasoning power possessed by brutes, 329
In the body and out, 195
Is Abraham in hell? 123
Judgment, doctrine of, contradicted by the popular view, 63
_Katephagen_, Rev. 20:9, defined by Stuart, 309
_Kolasis_, Matt. 25:46, meaning of, 274
Language of appearance, 136
Lazarus carried to Abraham’s bosom, when? 169
Matter cannot think, 324,
the proof rests with the skeptic, Sidney Smith’s testimony, 325,
W. G. Moncrieff’s testimony, 326
Milton’s translation of Eccl. 3:21, 76
Mind determined by sensation to belong to the lower animals, 328
Moses and the prophets on the place and condition of the dead, 154
Moses was raised from the dead, 142
Nature sheds no light on the future state, 8
Necromancy defined by Webster, 128
_Nephesh_ defined by Parkhurst, Taylor, and Gesenius, 51
Origen’s restorationism, an enlarged purgatory, 316
Parable, case of the rich man and Lazarus, a, 163,
how to be used, testimony of Clarke and Trench, 167
Paradise, where situated, 173
Paraphrase of Phil. 1:21-24, 209
Paul’s departure, 213
Personification used in the Bible, 117, 162
Peter’s tabernacle, its putting off, 213
Pharisees confess spirit, 97
_Plasso_, definition of, 65
Punctuation of Luke 23:43, 179
Punishment for sins in hell not threatened, 314
Punishment, degrees of, 276
Purgatory, an invention to relieve the great wrong of conscious eternal
misery, 316,
borrowed from Plato by Augustine, adopted by Rome, 316
Reasons why the doctrine of future punishment should be agitated, 320
Reformers adopted Augustine’s hell without his purgatory, 316
Rebellion against God, not eternal, 311
Resurrection proved by Christ, 151,
from what words translated, 231,
a prominent doctrine of the Bible, 234,
Clarke’s testimony, 257,
not impossible, 262,
objections against answered, 244-247,
object of the Christian’s hope, 250,
time of reward to the righteous, 252,
comfort of mourners, _id._,
time when crowns of glory are to be given, 254,
basis of Scripture promises, 255,
inseparably connected with the coming of Christ, 256
Samuel and the woman of Endor, 127
Scott’s note on Gen. 2:7, 32
_Semeron_, meaning of, 179
Sense of right and wrong possessed to a degree by the lower animals,
328
Separation from the love of God, 210
Shame and everlasting contempt, Dan. 12:2, 268
Sins in hell committed faster than God can punish, Benson, 302
Sodom and Gomorrah turned into ashes by eternal fire, 287
Soul and spirit, meaning of, 46,
times of their use in the Bible, 50-55
Souls under the altar, 113,
note by Barnes, 117
Spirit, how formed, 64,
returns to God, 56,
for what purpose? 62,
not conscious, 61,
committed to God, 77,
saved in the day of the Lord, 1 Cor. 5:5, 98
Spirits of just men made perfect, 80,
spirits in prison, 87,
note by Clarke, 91
State to which death reduces us, Law’s testimony, 242
Tendency of the doctrine of eternal misery, testimony of Saurin and A.
Barnes, 317,
it cannot be believed, testimony of Bp. Newton, 318
The image of God, 21
The breath of life, 31,
possessed by all animals, 33, 34
The living soul, 36,
dead soul, 41,
applied to all orders of animals, 43
The transfiguration, 137,
a miniature of the kingdom of God, 140,
no disembodied souls there, 141
The rich man and Lazarus, 161
The dead rise up to meet the king of Babylon and Pharaoh in _sheol_,
164, 165
Thief on the cross, 172
The inward man, what? 212
The unjust reserved to Judgment, 215
The death of Adam, 216,
his sentence, 218
The dead as though they had not been, 236,
have no knowledge, _id._,
not in Heaven nor hell, 237,
without a resurrection are perished, 240
The Judgment a future event, 258,
objections answered, 259,
destroys the idea of the conscious-state theory, 262,
testimony of Dobney, 263
The doctrine of the immortality of the soul leads to erroneous
conclusions on future punishment, 266
The wages of sin, 264
The undying worm and quenchless fire, 279,
a figure borrowed from the Old Testament, 280,
testimony of Jeremiah, 280,
of David and Ezekiel, 281,
of Isaiah, 282
The two deaths mentioned in Eze. 18:26, 299
The wicked, how recompensed in the earth, 309
The claims of philosophy, 322
The soul immaterial, 323
Them that sleep in Jesus brought with him, 212
“Thou” and “thy,” meaning of in Gen. 3:19, 225
Tormented forever and ever, Rev. 14:11, 288,
of whom spoken, 289
Traduction _vs._ creationism, 69-71
Trees represented as appointing a king over themselves, 162
True spirit of inquiry, 11
Tunes learned by birds, 328
Tyndale’s pungent inquiry, 233
Universal belief and inborn desire, 333
Unquenchable fire, meaning of the word _asbestos_, 284
Vincent’s description of hell, 301
We fly away, Ps. 90:10, meaning of, 125-127
White robes of Rev. 6:11, meaning of, 119
Who knoweth? Eccl. 3:21, 72
Word translated perceive, in 1 Sam. 28:14, 133
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Transcriber’s Note
The few words in Greek have been reproduced here as printed. Several lack the necessary (and occasionally the correct) diacritical marks.
There are also occasional lapses in the quotation of Biblical passages, where opening or closing quotation marks are misplaced or missing. The King James Version, which is used by the author, has been employed here as well to more accurately punctuate them.
The General Index, in the original text, used a tabular form. This has been re-cast as an indented list.
Errors deemed most likely to be the printer’s have been corrected, and are noted here. The references are to the page and line in the original.
27.28 and which are [“]sent forth Added.
30.23 man in 'hi[sim /s im]age stamped him with Spaced
immortality, moved.
51.19 '1 Kings [17[, /:]21, 22; Replaced.
79.23 God.[”] Col. 3:3. [“]And when will the Added/Removed.
believer
79.24 [“]When> Christ who is our life Added.
131.4 the father of all the lies in the world[./,] Replaced.
131.5 by assiduously circulating them[,/.] Replaced.
153.14 [“]Wherefore, God is not ashamed Added.
160.7 together is in the dust.[”] Job. 17:13-16; Added.
4:11-19;
160.14 whither thou goest.[”] Eccl. 9:4-6, 10. Added.
191.16 O grave, where is thy victory[./?] Replaced.
212.3 under the unfortu[n]ate necessity Added.
213.21 [P/B]ut as Paul does not here intimate Replaced.
264.20 What fate awaits us when we Added.
die?=[”]=--_Alger._
285.2 Homer, in the [Illiad], _sic_--Iliad
285.13 fire as cannot be extingu=[i]=shed Added.
294.21 this time forth even forever, [”/’] that is, Replaced.
317.13 when I see in the lukewarmness of my _sic_--devotions
devosions,
320.24 exerting all his divine attri[tri]butes Removed.
327.22 gloomy gorges and craggy h[e]ights of the Added.
mountains,
338.9 we simply affirm that they will be Added.
anni[hi]lated
349.11 carniv[e/o]rous crime Replaced.
364.10 C[ir/ri]ticism , a desperate case of, 176 Transposed.
371.33 from the Seventh-day Bap[t]ists, Added.
c7.11 Pictorial Nar[r]atives>, .60 Added.
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