Plausibility of this Objection, and necessity of examining it,

Explanation: There is every reason to believe that the com-

mencement and the close of the Latter Day will

be shrouded in such obscurity as to leave the

same uncertainty overhanging this as all the

great periods of the Divine Economy,

The Objection tested by Facts-ROLLOCK -RUTHERFORD,

ROBERT WODROW,

Bearing of these Facts,

The Objection founded on a narrow induction of Scripture Pas-

sages, and opposed to the spirit of a large and important class

of Divine Testimonies, -

Examples of passages announcing the work to be done, and the ex-

tensive changes to come over the face of the Church and of

Society, between the two adrents, all implying length of time,

Christ's Commission to his Disciples,

Christ in Heaven till Restitution of all Things,

Parables which intimate that He will be away a long time

-that He will tarry,

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Parables of the Tares and Wheat, the Net, the Mustard

seed, the Leaven,

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Transfer of Kingdom of God from Jews to Gentiles,

Degeneracy to characterize the Maturer Periods of the

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That He will wear out the patience of all but "God's
Elect," and try even them to the uttermost,

The Thessalonian excitement on the subject of Christ's Coming,

How treated by the Apostle,

Import of the Apostolic warning,

Distinction between events and periods,

Unavailing,

Early Chiliasts-Lactantius,

Excitement in regard to Christ's Coming-its Evils,

Difference between Feverish Expectation and the Patience of Hope,

CHAPTER IV.

THE CHURCH, OR MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST, COMPLETE AT HIS

COMING.

The three preceding chapters preliminary to the proper question
of this volume, namely, Whether the Second Advent will be
Pre-millennial, or will introduce a Kingdom of Men in the

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flesh ruled over by Christ and glorified Saints for a thousand

years,

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The Scripture evidence against this Theory to be arranged under

a series of Propositions,

PROPOSITION FIRST: THE CHURCH WILL BE ABSOLUTELY

First Class-admit that the Church is complete when

Summary,

Secord class, embracing nearly all modern Pre-millen-

nialists-deny that the Church is complete when

Christ comes-Remarks on this Class,

Their inconsistency,

Supplementary Remarks-In reply to Mr. Bickersteth, the Duke

of Manchester, and Mr. A. Bonar,

CHAPTER V.

ALL THE MEANS OF GRACE, AND AGENCIES OF SALVATION, TERMINATE

AT THE SECOND ADVENT.

PROPOSITION SECOND: CHRIST'S SECOND COMING WILL EX-

HAUST THE OBJECT OF THE SCRIPTURES,

Object of the Scriptures as regards Saints,

PROPOSITION THIRD: THE SEALING ORDINANCES WILL DIS-

APPEAR AT CHRIST'S SECOND COMING,

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By Dr. M'Neile,

Summary,

CHAPTER VI.

THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINued.

PROPOSITION FOURTH: THE INTERCESSION OF CHRIST, AND

THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT, FOR SAVING PURPOSES,

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THE KINGDOM OF CHRIST-ALREADY IN BEING ITS MILLENNIAL

ESSENTIALLY THE SAME WITH ITS PRESENT CHARACTER-ITS

ORGANIC FORM UNCHANGED.

Pre-millennial Theory of Christ's Kingdom,

PROPOSITION FIFTH: CHRIST'S PROPER KINGDOM IS AL-

READY IN BEING; COMMENCING FORMALLY ON HIS

ASCENSION TO THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD, AND CON-

TINUING UNCHANGED, BOTH IN CHARACTER AND

FORM, TILL THE FINAL JUDGMENT,

Explanations,

Apostolic Views of Christ's Kingdom,

Same Ground taken by Pre-millennialists and Unbelieving

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THE ENTIRE CHURCH MADE ALIVE"-EITHER BY RESURRECTION OR

TRANSFORMATION-AT CHRIST'S COMING.

PROPOSITION SIXTH: WHEN CHRIST COMES, THE WHOLE

CHURCH OF GOD WILL BE MADE ALIVE AT ONCE-

THE DEAD BY RESURRECTION, AND THE LIVING, IMME-

DIATELY THEREAFTER, BY TRANSFORMATION; THEIR

"MORTALITY BEING SWALLOWed up of Life,"

Proof of this,

Supplementary Remarks-in reply to Mr. H. Bonar,

CHAPTER IX.

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RESURRECTION OF ALL THE WICKED AT THE COMING OF CHRIST

PKOPOSITION SEVENTH: ALL THE WICKED WILL RISE

FROM THE DEAD, OR BE MADE ALIVE," AT THE

COMING OF Christ,

A prior Resurrection of the Righteous-but one direct passage

alleged for it,

Presumptive arguments in favour of it examined,

Resurrection of Believers peculiar to themselves,

Attaining to the Resurrection from the Dead,

Mr. Birks' view of this,

Resurrection of, and from, the dead,

Righteous and Wicked "awake" together, -

All in the Graves come forth together,

The view which Pre-millennialists take of this not tenable,

The great White Throne,

The Book of Life-Mr. Dalla

Mr. Lord-Mr. Birks-Dr. Hill,

The Dead, small and great,

The "other Book,"

Summary,

CHAPTER X.

SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED: THE MILLENNIAL RESURRECTION-

LITERAL OR FIGURATIVE?

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Pre-millennialists spread the Judgment over the whole Thousand

years,

Mr. Brooks' view of it,

Mr. Dallas' view of it,

Mede, Bickersteth, Birks,

Remarks on these views of the Judgment,

PROPOSITION EIGHTH: THE RIGHteous and the WICKED

WILL BE JUDGED TOGETHER, AND BOTH AT THE COMING OF

CHRIST,

Simultaneous Judgment-Scriptural proof of it,

Summary,

CHAPTER XII.

THE CONFLAGRATION, AND THE NEW HEAVENS AND NEW EARTH AT

Final Conflagration,

THE COMING OF CHRIST.

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