AND THE RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS: WITH SOME PRELIMINARY REMARKS ON THE NATURE AND INSPIRATION OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. A Letter to a Friend. BY ANDREW JUKES. "Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and SECOND EDITION. LONDON: LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1869. 101. f. 206. PREFACE. A THOUGHT conceived but not expressed is at best only an unborn child, not only without any influence on the world, but of whose very existence the world may be unconscious; but once brought forth it becomes part of the living working universe, to work there its appointed season, and possibly to leave its mark for good or evil on all successive time. But The thought which is now expressed in these pages has long been growing in the writer's heart. Hidden at first and unconfessed, during the last few years it has from time to time been brought forth in conversation with trusted Christian friends. the time seems come to give it a wider circulation. Men's hearts, now perhaps more than in any former age, are everywhere moved to enquire into the nature and inspiration of Holy Scripture, and the destiny of the human race, more especially the future state of sinners, as taught in Holy Scripture. Many are perplexed, hesitating to receive as perfect and divine a revelation, which, they are told, in the name of God consigns a large proportion of those who in some |