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 on the sense, but should be varied in its character as well as eternal in its duration.

"All this was the work of the God of the Scotch clergy. It was not only his work, it was his joy and his pride. For, according to them, hell was created before man came into the world; the Almighty, they did not scruple to say, having spent his previous leisure in preparing and completing this place of torture, so that, when the human race appeared, it might be ready for their reception. Ample, however, as the arrangements were, they were insufficient; and hell not being big enough to contain the countless victims incessantly poured into it, had, in these latter days, been enlarged. But in that vast expanse there was no void, for the whole of it reverberated with the shrieks and yells of undying agony. . . . Both children and fathers made hell echo with their piercing screams, writhing in convulsive agony at the torments which they suffered, and knowing that other torments more grievous still were reserved for them." (Vol. II. pp. 294, 295.)

Now every statement that Mr. Buckle here makes, finds ample confirmation in the works of distinguished theologians of that period and some of the previous centuries. Rutherford in his Religious Letters, speaking of the future punishment of the wicked, says: "Tongue, lungs and liver, bones and all, shall boil and fry in a torturing fire" (p. 17);—"a river of fire and brimstone broader than the earth." (p. 35.) And Boston, in his