Transcriber's Note. Apparent typographical errors have been corrected. Italics are indicated by _underscores_. Small capitals have been converted to full capitals. In the list of the publisher's other books, at the end of the work, the first line of each entry sometimes comprises only part of the title and sometimes extends beyond the title. The entire first line has been italicised in the original. In this version only the title has been italicised. THE NEW ESCHATOLOGY. SHOWING THE INDESTRUCTIBILITY OF THE EARTH AND THE WIDE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE LETTER AND SPIRIT OF HOLY SCRIPTURE. BY J. G. BROUGHTON PEGG. [Illustration: Behold He Cometh with Clouds; The Word] PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO. 1872. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT & CO., In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. LIPPINCOTT'S PRESS, PHILADELPHIA. NOTE. This little work was published in England several years ago; but has never before been republished in this country. It deals with those texts of Scripture which have generally been supposed to foretell the destruction of the material universe; and shows conclusively that these passages have been entirely misunderstood by commentators; and that, rightly interpreted, they have no reference whatever to the outer realm of matter, but to the inner realm of mind; to the internal condition of the church, the loss or destruction of heavenly charity, and the eclipse of genuine faith, which it was foreseen and foretold would occur at the close of the first Christian Dispensation. It is proper to add, also, that, although the name of Swedenborg nowhere occurs in the book, it is evident that the author was familiar with his teachings, and viewed and treated his subject from the Swedenborgian stand-point. But with the lovers of spiritual truth and the seekers after a Spiritual Christianity, this fact--now that so many earnest inquirers are beginning to read the writings of the Swedish seer--will rather add to than detract from the interest and value of the work. AMERICAN EDITOR. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30, 1871. THE NEW ESCHATOLOGY. _For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea_.--REV. xxi. 1.