Probation and Punishment
A treatise on spiritual probation now and if there is a second probation later. By Rev. S. M. Vernon D.D. Printed in 1886.
“... If there is probation beyond this life, it must be on such broad principles of equity and impartial justice as will include all men. If the wicked are put upon probation, with the opportunity of reversing their life character and choice, the righteous must also endure another trial, with the possibility of a like reversal. If one class is fixed in eternal conditions, so must the other be, unless we conclude, as these advocates of a future probation seem to, that the primary design of God is to relieve man from suffering, in which case He would not have subjected him to probation at all, but would have given him a secure place at the first among the angels.”