Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 edition. Excerpt: ... chapter V. the final doom of the devil. thus far we have traced in the pages of Holy Scripture the mysterious subject of Satan's origin and fall, his princedom, power, and activity on this earth of ours, and, to some extent, the extraordinary resources at his command as the chief rebel against God's Christ and His Church. We now come to consider the evidence afforded us in Holy Writ as to the final doom of this fallen but mighty spirit. The intimations of the Divine purpose to judge the god of this world and his kingdom are both clear and numerous. Nothing is more certain than the fact that the devil and his angels are living in terror of approaching doom, except it be that Jehovah has forecast the final sentence. The justice of the Divine procedure nowhere seems to be impeached by the great apostate. The only protest raised by the world of demons is that their term of respite be not shortened. Thus--' Art Thou come hither to torment us before the time?' An awful sense of the propriety of the coming ordeal of Divine judgment appears to possess Diabolos and those who act with him in his rebellion. In pursuing our enquiry into the present branch of the subject, the reader's attention will be directed to the threefold aspect of the sentence of doom passed upon tl1e Tempter, or rather to the three periods or epochs marking Jehovah's sentence. We shall note that: --1. The Divine Sentence Was passed On the devil at close of the temptation of The 'first man.' 2. That Sentence Wa
