Note 59 — Chapter III · [59] THE MORAL GOVERNMENT OF GOD.

[This chapter, more than any other, carries the force of positive argument. If in this world, we have proofs that God is a moral governor, then in order to evince that we shall be under moral government hereafter, we have only to supply an intermediate consideration,—viz.: that God, as such, must be unchangeable. The argument, as just remarked, assumes a substantive form, because admitted facts, as to this world, exhibiting the very principles on which God’s government goes at present, compel us not only to suppose that the principles of God will remain, but to believe so.]