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57. Ibid., lines 261-263, p. 218.
58. My discussion in this section is based upon Buis, 1957, 85-86; Peter Toon, Heaven
and Hell: a Biblical and Theological Overview (New York: Thomas Nelson, 1986, 168-169.
Baxter devoted two chapter to the topic of Hell in his The Saints' Everlasting Rest.
59. Cited by Buis, 1957, 85-86, from The Saints' Everlasting Rest, 98.
60. Cited by Ibid., 86, from The Saints' Everlasting Rest, 105.
61. Cited by Braun, 1979, 85.
62. Cited by Ibid.
63. The material in this brief paragraph is based upon the article by Paul Helm, "Jonathan
Edwards," The New International Dictionary of the Christian Church, edited by J.D. Douglas et.
al. (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1974), 334.
64. Ibid. 255, 261-266.
65. Cited by Vernon Grounds, "The Final State of the Wicked," Journal of the
Evangelical Theological Society, 24, 3, 1981, 217.
66. The Wrath of Almighty God: Jonathan Edwards on God's Judgment Against Sinners,
edited by Rev. Don Kistler (Morgan, Penna.: Sol. Deo Gloria, 1996), 64-65.
67. Bruce W. Davidson, "Reasonable Damnation: How Jonathan Edwards argued for the
Rationality of Hell," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 38, 1, 1995, 55-56,provided
the basis for my discussion in this paragraph.
68. John H. Gerstner, Jonathan Edwards on Heaven and Hell (Grand Rapids: Baker,
1980), 86-87.
69. Ibid., 56.
70. Cited by Ibid., 85.
71. Cited by Braun, 1979, 82.
72. Edwards (Kistler), 1996, 73.
73. Jonathan M. Butler, Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling: Heaven and Hell in
American Revivalism, 1870-1920 (Brooklyn, New York: Carlson, 1991), 22.
74. The source for my material on Finney is Butler, 1991, 33-37.
75. Cited by Ibid., 34.
76. Cited by Ibid.
77. Cited by Ibid.
78. Cited by Buis, 1957, 101.
79. Cited by Ibid., 102.
80. Cited by Braun, 1979, 86.
81. For a helpful treatment of Simpsons career, see Robert L. Niklaus, John S. Sawin,
Samuel J. Stoesz, All for Jesus: God at Work in the Christian and Missionary Alliance Over One
Hundred Years (Camp Hill, Penna.: Christian Publications, 1986), 3-142.
82. Hymns of the Christian Life (Harrisburg, Penna.: Christian Publications, 1978, revised
and enlarged edition), #462.
83. Hatlo's Inferno (New York: Avon, 1955)
84. Mary K. Baxter, A Divine Revelation of Hell (New Kensington, Pa.: Whitaker House,
1993).
85. Many evangelical theologians, on the basis of what God has revealed in His Holy