Love and Penalty
Lectures on eternal punishment consistent with the fatherhood of God, by Joseph P. Thompson, D.D., Pastor of the Broadway Tabernacle Church. Printed by petition in 1860.
... “Think of God in his works and ways,--his wisdom and beneficence, the order, and beauty, and majesty of his kingdom;--and tell me whether a creature should not give him unbounded homage and affection? And yet this creature man, who has received the magnificent endowment of will, lifts up his head and says, “not thy will--but MINE.” Can wickedness go to a higher reach of daring? Must not a righteous God testify his displeasure at so great a crime?”....