The doctrine of the endless punishment of sinners is so solemn that man's natural instinct is either to ignore it or deny it. From time to time in the history of the Christian church it comes under concerted attack, as it did during the life of W. G. T. Shedd, the noted nineteenth century theologian and preacher.
In this work, Shedd carefully expounds the biblical teaching on divine judgment, and sets it in the context of the history of Christian doctrine. He deals carefully and cogently with objections to it.
Shedd shows that The strongest support of the doctrine of endless punishment is the teaching of Christ, the Redeemer of man . .. without the explicit and reiterated statements of God incarnate, it is doubtful whether so awful a truth would have had such a conspicuous place as it always has had in the creed of Christendom . . .Christ could not have warned men so frequently and earnestly as he did .. . had he known there is no future peril.
This book will have a profoundly sobering effect on its readers; but its lasting impression will be to cause a new concern for men and women without Christ, and undying gratitude for 'Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come'.