6. Resurrection of the Body, as taught in the New Testament, not a 3. Were the Apostles mistaken in expecting a speedy Coming of Christ? 4. Examination of the Account of Christ's coming given by Jesus in 5. Everlasting Punishment contradicts the Fatherly Love of God. 6. Attempts to modify and soften the Doctrine of Everlasting Punish- § 1. On the Defence of Nescience in Theology, by Herbert Spencer and 2. On the Defence of Verbal Inspiration, by Gaussen.. 3. Defence of the Doctrine that Sin is a Nature, by Professor Shedd. . 4. Defence of Everlasting Punishment, by Dr. Nehemiah Adams and ORTHODOXY: ITS TRUTHS AND ERRORS. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. §1. Object and Character of this Book.-The peculiarity of the book now offered to the religious public by the government of the American Unitarian Association, is this — that it is an honest attempt to find and state the truth contained in the doctrines of their opponents. It is, perhaps, something new for an association established to defend certain theological opinions, and baptized with a special theological name, to publish a work intended to do justice to hostile theories. The too usual course of each sect has been, through all its organs, to attack, denounce, undervalue, and vilify the positions taken by its antagonists. This has been considered as only an honest zeal for truth. The consequence has been, that no department of literature has been so unchristian in its tone and temper as that of sectarian controversy. Political journals heap abuse on their opponents, in the interest of their party. But though more noisy than the theological partisans, they are by no means so cold, hard, |