SHOWING THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF THE EARTH AND THE WIDE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LETTER AND SPIRIT OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. BY J. G. BROUGHTON PEGG. PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 1872. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Lippincott's Press, Philadelphia. PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 1872. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT

This little work was published in England several years ago; but has never before been republished in this country. It deals with those texts of Scripture which have generally been supposed to foretell the destruction of the material universe; and shows conclusively that these passages have been entirely misunderstood by commentators; and that, rightly interpreted, they have no reference whatever to the outer realm of matter, but to the inner realm of mind; to the internal condition of the churc

For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea .— Rev. xxi. 1. While we blame the conduct of the Jews in adhering only to the literal sense of the Scriptures, and by such adherence rejecting their Messiah, we possibly forget that the Christian church has followed precisely the same line of conduct; and that to this we are indebted for the greater part of those absurd dogmas, which have so long exposed the Gospel to the derision of its enemies. Had men proper

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