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ished with everlasting destruction (in ceternos 

 crudatus detrudentur, oeternaque perditione pun- 



ientur) etc." (Text from Hodge on Confessions 

 p. 389). 



7. Baptist Declaration: "That the wicked 

 shall be adjudged to endless punishment, and 

 the righteous to endless joy; and that this judg- 

 ment will fix forever the final state of men in 

 heaven or hell." 



8. Methodist P. E. Church: "We are all 

 born with a sinful, devlish nature; by reason 

 w r hereof we are children of wrath, liable to death 

 eternal. " (Buck's Theo. Diet. p. 305). 



One of the "Articles of Agreement of the 

 Evangelical Alliance" says: " The Immortality 

 of the Soul, the Resurrection of the Body; the 

 judgment of the world by the Lord Jesus Christ, 

 with eternal blessedness of the righteous, and the 

 eternal punishment of the wicked." 



We will now consult our most eminent church 

 historians and students of Christian belief and 

 teaching. Their opinions represent a wide field of 

 investigation and will of necessity be impartial. 



" The pious fathers describe the eternity of the 

 punishments of the lost in emphatic words." 

 Gerhard, Loci Theologici. 



"All these (representative) church fathers are 

 unanimous that after death there is no more 

 reconciliation for sin, and therefore the godless 



