Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
The great subject of Macbeth is penal retribution for sin, and its tremendous power lies in the human conscience, which responds to its awful representations. Shakespeare was no theologian, but who can read this tragedy and not feel that there is a hell, or, if there is not, that there ought to be? Plato, Homer, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, when they present this dreadful topic, only voice the sentiments of the human soul. Mankind believe in hell.
Thomas E. Peck, ‘Probation after Death’ in Miscellanies of Rev. Thomas E. Peck, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Theology in the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, ed. T. C. Johnson (3 vols, Richmond VA: The Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1896), 2: 8.
Thomas E. Peck, ‘Probation after Death’ in Miscellanies of Rev. Thomas E. Peck, D.D., LL.D., Professor of Theology in the Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, ed. T. C. Johnson (3 vols, Richmond VA: The Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1896), 2: 8.
