Includes bibliographical references (p. [301-366]) and index.
Contents
The terror of the Lord -- Angels and judges -- God as temporal judge -- God as judge of nations -- God as judge through man -- God as judge through the oath -- God as eternal judge -- Hell and the sentence of time -- The intermediate state -- A time and place for spirits -- Images of spiritual prisons -- Of purgatory -- Places of waiting -- The invisible state -- Arrest and conveyance -- The keeper -- Horrid company -- Torments in the intermediate state -- The length and breadth of Hades -- Crossing the threshold -- The abominable fancy -- The royal clemency -- The extraction of grace -- More than a metaphor -- The great assize -- Building the Penitentiary -- The Convict Act -- Eden and friends -- Hospitals of mercy -- Preparing the Penitentiary Act -- Ergastulum or penitentiary? -- Adam's doom -- The fatal floodgate -- A criminal named Adam -- The beginning of work -- The adjacent country -- The make weight -- Taking the kingdom by violence -- The reassertion of original sin -- The man in the wooden cage -- The reality of depravity -- Regeneration's promise -- Retirement and the pastoral ideal -- The strife of tongues -- The man in the wooden cage -- Reflection and the conscience -- Solitude's space -- Solitude for the uncondemned -- An intermediate space -- The measure of sin -- Redeeming the time -- The hazard of a death-bed repentance -- Extending time -- Last words -- A question of evidence -- A contrite heart -- The production of sorrow -- Proportion and time -- Penance and time.
