Excerpt from Love and Penalty, or Eternal Punishment Consistent With the Fatherhood of God A popular author, representing the Broad Church party in the Church Of England, in a preface to a recent edition Of a religious novel Of the last century, satirizes the current theology of the evangelical school, as teaching in effect that nothing can be known of God's character, even from the per son Of Jesus Christ, save that he will doom to endless torture the vast majority of the human race, while he has made, for the purpose of delivering a very small minority, a certain highly artificial arrangement, to be explained by no human notions of justice or But setting aside the gross injustice Of this caricature upon those who hold the doctrines Of eternal punishment and divine election, there still remain these declarations of our Lord; Wide is the gate, and broad is the Rev. Charles Kingsley, M. A. Preface to Brooke's Fool of Quality. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.