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TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Page.

Note to the Reader,..

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Alice Sherwood, or, the Pennsylvania Valley-a tale,..

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Preliminary Considerations,....

40

Universal Salvation proven from the Attributes of God,

49

Thoughts on the Law of God,...

68

Universal Salvation proven from the Relations of God to Man,.... 76

Hyınn of Consolation.......

99

Universal Salvation further proved from the Scriptures,.

100

Hymn-Abrahamic Covenant,..

130

Popular Debate, No. 1.-Is the Future Salvation conditional ?.... 131

No. 2.-Universalism reduced to absurdity,...... 145

No. 3.-—Relative to the last paragraph of Matt. xxv. 157

No. 4.-Whence did the opposition to Christ and

his Apostles proceed !...

...... 188

No. 5.-Do the Scriptures teach that there will be

a General Judgment after Death ?..... 193

Miscellaneous Objections considered,..

221

A Metaphysical Argument from Dr. Beecher examined,.

235

Millennium Hymn,......

238

The nature and ends of Divine Punishment,.

239

The doctrine of Hell Punishment examined,..

263

Does Foreknowledge necessarily imply Foreordination ?.

280

Election and Reprobation Scripturally illustrated,...

302

Review of the Argument on the words Everlasting, Forever, &c.,.. 313

Lake of Fire and Second Death,..

321

An Important Question considered,.

325

Diversity of Views among Universalists,

329

The Intermediate State considered,.

337

Hymn—The Better World,......

347

Revelations from Hell, by a Damned Spirit,.

349

Appendix to the same,........

373

Hymn—The Gospel Consummation,

375

Index to Comparisons and Illustrations employed in this work,.... 377

Index to Texts commented on, usually urged against Universalism, 381

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