TABLE OF CONTENTS. THE AFFIRMATIVE, BY REV. NEHEMIAH ADAMS, D. D. V. The Scriptures Teach that the Law of God has a Curse; which it has not if Future Punishment be Disciplinary.. VI. The Sentence passed upon the Wicked indiscriminately, forbids the Idea of Discipline in Future Punishment... VII. The Duration of Future Punishment is Expressed in the New Testament by the Terms employed to denote Ab- solute Eternity. PART II. THE NEGATIVE, BY REV. SYLVANUS COBB. Terms of Duration; or Review of the Argument from the words Everlasting and Eternal, which is the Seventh, and the Promi- nent Position of Dr. Adams, in support of Endless Punishment Argument from the Scheme of Redemption, reviewed, thus, for THE invitation from the Editor of the "Christian Freeman" to make a statement of views which the "several thousands of families" who, it is said, will read this paper, repudiate, imposes a responsible, yet, for some reasons, a gratifying task. The names of not a few among my ministerial brethren occur to me, in whose able and more competent hands I would gladly place this labor, both for the gratification of the reader and, as I view it, for the truth's sake. I feel encouraged in this work by the comparative regard which many in this denomination profess for the Bible. They do not assail it as the manner of some is who differ from us; but their desire to make it speak in their favor secures for it an acknowledgment of its authority. As an illustration of this remark, I refer to a Review of Rev. T. |