The first major study of population size and its tremendous importance to the character and quality of society, this classic examines the tendency of human numbers to outstrip their resources.

Excerpt from The Doctrine of Eternal Misery Reconcilable With the Infinite Benevolence of God: And a Truth Plainly Asserted in the Christian Scriptures One great defign of infinite wifdom, in managing the (late of this world, is to {how the nature 0 fin by futfering it to be a ted out in many (hapehs - in many crimes - in many er rors of Opinion - ih many felfifh wiihes of the finful mind - in many ways of refilling the di. Vine fovereignty - and, in many feigned excu fes for an unholy life. By all thele things, at the confummation of time, it will appear that fin is exceeding finial - that it makes the minds of rational creatures mad-and that the Goo of the earth aéls a molt excellent part, in for bidding, condemning and punifhing it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

One of the 20th-century's most reasoned explanations of the sovereignty of God and the Reformed interpretation of salvation. "Whoever really wants to know what Calvinism teaches cannot do better than to read this book from cover to cover".--United Presbyterian magazine.

George N. H. Peters (1825 – 1909) was an American Lutheran minister whose life work, this three-volume defense of non-dispensational premillennial theology, was published in 1884. Wilbur E. Smith calls it “the most exhaustive, thoroughly annotated and logically arranged study of Biblical prophecy that appeared in our country during the nineteenth century.”