I.—But is there Added to this Severity Endlessness?

1. Our natural feeling is against such a duration. We hesitate to receive the idea that sin, done by a finite man, should be punished by an infinite doom.

2. Our natural feeling concerning God is also against it. God is pleased to measure His love by a father's love for his children, St. Luke xi., 13. Most certainly no earthly parent would inflict such a punishment upon his child for any evil.

3. God has been pleased to justify His actions by an appeal to this our sense of right and wrong dealing. In Ezekiel xviii., He defends Himself against the unjust charges of the Jews. Again in Micah vi., 3, there is an appeal to man from God; where God would also justify His fair dealing.