Abraham Tucker's View--Ingenious and Reverent--Variety of
Endowment--Maximum of Happiness--Imparting and Receiving New
Ideas--Compensations--Infinite Justice.
VII.
PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION.
Different Processes--The Case of Saul--Changed in a Moment--No Violence
to Human Freedom--The Case of Nebuchadnezzar--Sudden or Slow--Basis of
Warning--An Object Lesson--Function of Suffering.
VIII.
THE INTERMEDIATE STATE.
Meagre Details--Good Reasons Why--Extent of the Universe--Future
Glory--Sin in Other Worlds--No Revelation--Future Abode of the
Righteous--Solid or Ethereal--Impossible Revelations--Present Duties and
Interests--Our Limitations--Necessity of Purification--Preaching to the
Spirits in Prison--Stages of Progress--The Law of Gradual Development.
IX.
THE SPIRITS IN PRISON.
The Descent of Jesus Into Hades--Singular Reserve of
Preachers--Purgatory--Dr. Gerhardt's Book--A Bodily Resurrection--The
Spirit World Requires a Spirit Body.
X.
DIVINE LOVE.
Infinite Being and Perfection--Grades of Being--Variety--Man's
Limitations--Moral Beings--Hopeless Surroundings--All Are the Children
of God--Righting the Wrongs of Time--"The Heart of the Universe Is
Love"--Eternal Conscious Torment Incredible--Conquering Power of
Love--Eternal Purpose Will Not Fail--Omnipotence in the Moral Realm--The
Divine Expression of Love--Universal Atonement Involves Universal
Salvation--Final Success of God's Designs--Will Evil Necessarily
Perpetuate Itself?--Triumph of Good Over Evil--Few Stripes or
Many--Reformatory Punishment--Bringing Good Out of Evil--Possibilities
of Redeeming Grace--The Ransomed of the Lord--Wrath but the Shadow of
Love--Former Eternity of Sinlessness--Wrath No Constituent of the Divine
Character--Pity and Indignation.
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