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Systematic Theology (Volume 3 of 3)

Part 8 — Index Of Subjects. (continued 2)

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objected to, on the ground of errors in secular matters, 222

said to be erroneous in its science, 223

reply to above allegation against, 223-226

said to be erroneous in its history, 226

reply to above allegation against, 226-229

said to be erroneous in its morality, 230

reply to above allegation against, 230-232

said to be erroneous in its reasoning, 232

reply to above allegation against, 232, 233

said to be erroneous in quotation and interpretation, 234

reply to above allegation against, 234, 235

said to be erroneous in its prophecy, 235

reply to above allegation against, 235, 236

admits books unworthy of a place as inspired, 236

reply to above allegation against, 236-238

admits as authentic portions of books written by others than the persons to whom they are ascribed, 238

reply to above allegation against, 238-240

admits sceptical or fictitious narratives, 240

reply to above allegation against, 240-242

acknowledges non-inspiration of its teachers and writers, 242

reply to above allegation against, 242

Intercession of Christ, 773-775

see Christ.

Intercessors, saints on earth are, 775

Intercommunicatio, 333

Intercommunion of the Persons in the Trinity, 332-334

Intermediate State, 998-1003

of the righteous, 988, 999

of the wicked, 999, 1000

not a sleep, 1000

not purgatorial, 1000

one of incompleteness, 1002

a state of thought, 1002

sin if preferred in this more spiritual state becomes demoniacal, 1002

some place the end of man's probation at the close of the, 1002

Intuition, 52, 53, 67, 72, 125, 499

Intuition-theory of inspiration, see Inspiration.

Intuitional theory of morals, 501

reconciled with the empirical theory, 501

Intuitions, 52, 53, 67, 248

Isaiah, its composite character, 239

Islam, 186, 427

James, the apostle, his position on Justification, 851

Jefferson, Thomas, on a Baptist church as the truest form of democracy, 908

Jehovah, 256, 309

Jesus, bowing at the name of, 969

Jews, the only forward-looking people, 666

educated in three great truths, 666, 667

above truths presented by three agencies, 667, 668

this education first of all by law, 667

this education by prophecy, 667

this education by judgment, 668

[pg 1088]

effects of the exile upon, 668

as propagators of the gospel, 668

authors on Judaism as a preparation for Christ, 668

Job, the book of, when written, 241

is a dramatic poem, 240, 241

John, gospel of, differs from synoptics in its account of Jesus, 143

its genuineness, 151, 152

compared with Revelation, 151, 152

does its characteristic Logos doctrine necessitate a later date?, 320, 321

Judas, 884, 1043

Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur, 293

Judge, Christ the final, 1027, 1028

Judgment, the last, a final and complete vindication of God's righteousness, 1023, 1024

its nature outward, visible, definite in time, 1024, 1025

its object, the manifestation of character, and assignment of corresponding condition, 1025, 1026

evidences of, and preparation for, already in the nature of man, 1026, 1027

single acts and words adduced in, why?, 1027, 1028

the judge in, see preceding item, the subjects of, men and evil angels, 1028, 1029

the grounds of, the law of God and grace of Christ, 1029

list of authors on, 1029

Justice of God, 290-295

see God.

Justification, involved in union with Christ, 805

the doctrine of, 849-868

defined, 849

declarative and judicial, 849

held as sovereign by Arminians, 849, 855

Scriptural proof of, 849, 850

its nature determined by Scriptural use of 'justify' and its derivatives, 850-854

James and Paul on, 851

includes remission of punishment, 854-856

a declaration that the sinner is just or free from condemnation of law, 854

is pardon or forgiveness as God is regarded as judge or father, 855

is on the ground of union with Christ who has borne the penalty, 855

includes restoration to favor, 856

since it treats the sinner as personally righteous it must give him the rewards of obedience, 856

is reconciliation or adoption as God is regarded as friend or father, 857

this restoration rests solely on the righteousness of Christ to whom sinner is united by faith, 858

its difficult feature stated, 859

believed on testimony of Scripture, 860

the difficulty in, relieved by three considerations, 860

is granted to a sinner in whose stead Christ has borne penalty, 860

is bestowed on one who is so united to Christ as to have Christ's life dominating his being, 860

is declared of one in whom the present Christ life will infallibly extirpate all remaining depravity, 860

its ground is not the infusion into us of righteousness and love (Romish view), 861

its ground is not the essential righteousness of Christ become the sinner's by faith, (Osiander) 861

its ground is the satisfaction and obedience of Christ the head of a new humanity of which believers are members, 861

is ours, not because Christ is in us, but because we are in Christ, 862

its relation to regeneration and sanctification delivers it from externality and immorality, 862, 863

and sanctification, not different stages of same process, 863

a declarative, as distinguished from the efficient acts of God's grace, regeneration and sanctification, 863

gifts and graces accompaniments, not consequences of, 864

why “by faith” rather than other graces?, 864

produced efficiently by grace, meritoriously by Christ, instrumentally by faith, evidentially by works, 865

as being complete at the moment of believing, is the ground of peace, 865

is instantaneous, complete and final, 867

not eternal in the past, 867

in, God grants actual pardon for past sin, and virtual pardon for future sin, 867

cannot be secured by future obedience, 868

must be secured by accepting Christ and manifesting trust and submission by prompt obedience, 868

list of authors on, 868

Justitia civilis, 639

Justus et justificans, 753

Kalpa, 352

Karen tradition, 116

Kenosis, 701, 704, 705

Keri and Kethib, 309

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“Know,” its meaning in Scripture, 780

Knowledge includes faith as a higher sort of, 3, 4, 5

analogy to one's nature or experience not necessary to, 7

is “recognition and classification,”, 7

mental image, not essential to, 7

of whole not essential to partial, and of a part, 8

may be adequate though not exhaustive, 8

involves limitation or definition, 9

relative to knowing agent, 10

is of the thing as it is, 10

though imperfect, valuable, 37

requires pre-supposition of an Absolute Reason, 61

does not ensure right action, 111, 460

aggravates, but is not essential to, sin, 558

two kinds of, and scientia media, 357

sins of, 649

final state of righteous one of, 1029

Koran, 115, 186

Kung-fu-tse, see Confucius.

Language, difficulty of putting spiritual truths into, 35

dead only living, 39

not essential to thought, 216

defined, 467

is the effect, not the cause of mind, 467

Law, cause and force known without mental image, 7

is method, not cause, 76

the transcript of God's nature, 293

in general, 533-536

its essential idea, 533

its implications, 533

first used of voluntary agents, 533

its use in physics implicitly confesses a Supreme Will, 533

its derivation in several languages, 533

because of its ineradicable implications, “method” has been suggested as a substitute, 533

definitions of, 533, 534

cannot reign, 534

its generality, 534

deals in general rules, 534

implies power to enforce, 534, 535

without penalty is advice, 535

in the case of rational and free agents implies duty and sanctions, 535

expresses and demands nature, 535

formulates relations arising in nature, 535

of God in particular, 536-547

elemental, 536-544

physical or natural, 536

moral law, 537

moral law, its implications, 537

is discovered, not made, 538

not constituted, but tested, by utility, 538

of God, what?, 538

the method of Christ, 539

authors upon, 539

not arbitrary, 539

not temporary, or provisional, 540

not merely negative, 540

as seen in Decalogue, 540

not addressed to one part of man's nature, 540

not outwardly published, 540, 541

not limited by man's consciousness of it, 541

not local, 541

not modifiable, 541

not violated even in salvation, 541

the ideal of human nature, 542

reveals love and mercy mandatorily, 542, 549

is all-comprehensive, 542

is spiritual, 543

is a unit, 543

is not now proposed as a method of salvation, 543

is a means of discovering and developing sin, 543, 544

reminds man of the heights from which he has fallen, 544

as positive enactment, 544-547

as shown in general moral precepts, 545

as shown in ceremonial or special injunctions, 545

its positive form a re-enactment of its elemental principles, 545

the written, why imperfect?, 546

the Puritan mistake in relation to, 546

its relation to the grace of God, 547-549

is a general expression of God's will, 547

is a partial, not an exhaustive, expression of God's nature, 547

pantheistic mistake in relation to, 547, 548

alone, leaves parts of God's nature to be expressed by gospel, 548

is not, Christ is, the perfect image of God, 548

not abrogated by grace, but republished and re-enforced, 548

of sin and death, 548

in the manifestation of grace, combined with a view of the personal love of the Lawgiver, 549

its all-embracing requirement, 572

identical with the constituent principles of being, 629

all-comprehending demand of harmony with God, 637

the Mosaic, inspired hope of pardon and access to God, 667

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its basis in the nature of God, 764

as a moral rule unchanging, 875

freedom from, what?, 876

believer not free from obligation to observe, 876

as a system of penalty, believer free from, 876

as a method of salvation, believer free from, 876

as an outward and foreign compulsion, believer free from, 876

not a sliding scale graduated to one's moral condition, 877

God's, as known in conscience and Scripture, a ground of final judgment, 1029

Laws of knowing correspond to nature of things, 10

of theological thought, laws of God's thought, 10

of nature, not violated in miracle, 121

of nature, act not merely singly, but in combination, 434, 435

“Laying-on of hands,” its significance, 920

Letter-missive calling council of ordination, 922

Lex, its derivation, 533

Licensure, its nature, 919

Life contains promise and potency of every form of matter, 91

not produced from matter, 93

as it ascends, it differentiates, 240

not definable, 251

not a mere process, 251

more than environmental correspondence, 251

ascribed to Christ, 309

ascribed to Holy Spirit, 315

animal, though propagated, not material, 495

has power to draw from the putrescent material for its living, 677

its various relations honored by being taken into union with Divinity in Christ, 682

man's physical, conscious of a life within not subject to will, 799

man's spiritual, conscious of life within its life, 799

man's natural, preserved by God, much more his spiritual, 883

Christian, attains completeness in future, 981

sinful, attains completeness in future, 981

“book of,” the book of justification, 1029

Lineamenta extrema, 614

Locutiones variæ, sed non contrariæ; diversæ, sed non adversæ, 227

Logos, the whole, present in the man, Christ Jesus, 281

John's doctrine of the, radically different from Philo's, 320, 321

John's doctrine of the, related to the “memra” doctrine, 320

doctrine of the, authorities on, 321

significance of term, 335

the pre-incarnate, granted to men a natural light of reason and conscience, 603

purged of depravity that portion of human nature which he assumed in Incarnation, in the very act of taking it, 677

during earthly life of Jesus existed outside of flesh, 704

the whole present in Christ, and yet present everywhere else, 704

can suffer on earth, and yet reign in heaven at same time, 714

his surrender of independent exercise of divine attributes, how best conceived, 705

his part in evangelical preparation, 711

“Lord of Hosts,” its significance, 448

Lord's Day, 410

Lord's Supper, 959-980

Lord's Supper and Baptism, historical monuments, 151

Love, necessary to right use of reason with regard to God, 3, 29, 519, 520

its loss obscures rational intuitions of God, 67

God's, nature cannot prove it, 84

God's immanent, what?, 263

not to be confounded with mercy and goodness, 265

God's, finds a personal object within the Trinity, 285

constitutes a ground of divine blessedness, 285

God's transitive, what?, 289

God's transitive, is mercy and goodness, 289

distinct from holiness, 290, 567

attributed to Christ, 309

attributed to Holy Spirit, 316

revealed in grace rather than in law, 548

defined, 567

to God, all-embracing requirement of law, 572

eternity of God's, an effective element in appeal, 788

God's, fixed on sinners of whom he knows the worst, 788

God's unchanging, 788

God's, has dignity, 1051

brotherly, in heaven implies knowledge, 1031

Maat, the Egyptian goddess, 1024

Maccabees, First, no direct mention of God in, 309

[pg 1091]

Magister sententiarum, 44

Magnetism, personal, what? 820

Majestaticum genus, 686

Malice, what? 569

Malum metaphysicum, what? 424

Man, in what sense supernatural, 26

furnishes highest type of intelligence and will in nature, 79

as to intellect and freedom, not eternal a parte ante, 81

his intellectual and moral nature, implies an intellectual and moral author, 81

his moral nature proves existence of a holy Lawgiver, 82

his emotional and voluntary nature proves the existence of a Being who may be a satisfying object of human affection and end of human activity, 83

recognizes in God, not his like, but his opposite, 83

mistakes as to his own nature lead him into mistakes as to the First Cause, 84, 253

his consciousness, Royce's view, 99

his will above nature, 121

a concave glass towards God, 252

can objectify self, 252

is self-determining, 252

not explicable from nature, 411

a spiritually reproductive agent, yet God begets, 418

a creation, and child of God, 465-476

his creation a fact of Scripture, 465

exists by creative acts of God, 465

though result of evolution, yet originating agency of God needed, 465

whether mediately or immediately created Scripture does not explicitly state, 465

the true doctrine of evolution consistent with the Scriptural doctrine of creation, 466

certain psychological human endowments cannot have come from the brute, 466

God's breathing into men was such a re-inforcement of the processes of life as turned the animal into man, 467

and brute, both created by the immanent God, the former comes to his status not from but through the latter, 467

the beginnings of his conscious life, 467

some simple distinctions between man and brute, 467, 468

if of brute ancestry, yet the offspring of God, 469

Scripture teaches that man's nature is the creation of God, 469

his relations to animals, authors upon, 469

immediate creation of his body not forbidden by comparative physiology, 470

that his physical system is descended by natural generation from the simiæ, an irrational hypothesis, 470

as his soul was an immediate creation of God, so, in this sense, was his body also, 470

does not degenerate as we travel back in time, 471

no natural process accounts for his informing soul nor for the body informed by that soul, 472

the laws of development followed in man's origin from a brute ancestry are but methods of God, and proofs of his creatorship, 472

comes upon the scene not as a brute but as a self-conscious, self-determining being, 472

his original and new creation, both from within, 472

an emanation of that Divine Life of which the brute was a lower manifestation, 472

his nature not an undesigned result of atheous evolution but the efflux of the divine personality, 473

natural selection may account for man's place in nature, but not for his place as a spiritual being above nature, 473

his intellectual and moral faculties have only an adequate cause in the world of spirits, 473

apart from the controlling action of a higher intelligence, the laws of the material universe insufficient for his production, 473

his brute ancestry, list of authors on, 473, 474

his racial unity, 476-483

his racial unity, a fact of Scripture, 476

his racial unity at foundation of certain Pauline doctrines, 476

his racial unity, the ground of natural brotherhood, 476

the pre-Adamite, 476, 477

his racial unity, sustained by history, 477, 478

his racial unity, sustained by philology, 478, 479

his racial unity, sustained by psychology, 479

his racial unity, sustained by physiology, 480, 483

a single species under several varieties, 480

[pg 1092]

unity of species of, argues unity of origin, 481

according to Agassiz from eight centres of origin, 481

his racial unity, consistent with all existing physical varieties, 481, 482

physiological change in, illustrated, 482

his “originally greater plasticity,” 482

his racial unity, authorities on, 482, 483

the essential elements of his nature, 483-488

the dichotomous theory of his nature, 483, 484

the dichotomous theory of, supported by consciousness, 483

the dichotomous theory of, supported by Scripture, 483, 484

the trichotomous theory of his nature, 484-488

his ψυχή and πνεῦμα, 484

his spirit and soul, texts on, 484

trichotomous theory of his nature, element of truth in, 484

the trichotomous theory of his nature untenable, 485, 486

the true relation of πνεῦμα and ψυχή in his nature, 486-488

is different in kind from the brute, though possessed of certain powers in common with it, 486

since spirit is soul when in connection with the body, soul cannot be immortal unless with spiritual body, 486

the trichotomous theory of the nature of, untenable on psychological grounds, 486

a true view of the spiritual nature of, refutes six errors, 486, 487

some who have held the trichotomous view of, 487

his body, why honorable? 488

has been provided with a fleshly body, for two suggested reasons, 488

origin of his soul, 488-497

the theory of the pre-existence of his soul, 488-491

the advocates, ancient and modern, of this theory of soul pre-existence, 488, 489

the truth at the basis of soul pre-existence, 488

the theory of soul pre-existence, founded on an illusion of memory, 488

explanations of this illusion, 488

the theory of the soul's pre-existence, without Scriptural warrant, 489, 490

if his soul was conscious and personal in the pre-existent state, why is recollection even of important decisions so defective? 490

the pre-existence theory of the soul of, is of no theological assistance, 490

Müller's view of pre-existence stated and examined, 490, 491

the creatian theory of his soul, 491-493

its advocates, 491

Scripture does not teach that God immediately creates his soul, 491

creatianism repulsively false as representing him as not father of his offspring's noblest part, 492

his individuality, how best explained, 492

the creatian theory of his birth makes God the author of sin, 493

the creatian theory of his birth, certain mediating modifications of, 493

the traducian theory of his birth, 493-497

the traducian theory, its advocates, 493

the traducian theory explained, 494

the traducian theory best accords with Scripture, 494

the traducian theory is favored by the analogy of animal and vegetable life, 495

the traducian theory supported by the transmission of physical, mental, and moral characteristics, 495, 496

the traducian theory embraces the element of truth in the creatian theory in that it holds to a divine concurrence in the development of the human species, 497

his moral nature, 497-513

the powers which enter into his moral nature, 497

his conscience defined, 498

has no separate ethical faculty, 498

his conscience discriminative and impulsive, 498

his conscience distinguished from related mental processes, 499

his conscience the moral judiciary of the soul, 500

his conscience an echo of God's voice, 501

has the authority of the personal God, of whose nature law is but a transcript, 502-504

his will, 504-513

his will defined, 504, 505

his will and the other faculties, 505

his will and permanent states, 505, 506

his will and motives, 506, 507

his will and contrary choice, 507, 508

his will and his responsibility, 509, 510

[pg 1093]

his responsibility for the inherited selfish preferences of his will, its Scriptural explanation, 510

his natural bent of will to evil so constant, inveterate, and powerful that only regeneration can save him from it, 510

the hurtful nature of a deterministic theory of his will, 511-513

and his will, authors upon, 513

his original state, 514-532

his original state described only in Scripture, 514

list of authors on his original state, 514

essentials of his original state, 514-523

made “in the image of God,” what implied?, 514

made in natural likeness to God or personality, 514

made in moral likeness to God or holiness, 514

the elements in his original likeness to God, more clearly explicated, 514, 515

indwelt by the Logos or divine Reason, 515

never wholly loses “the image of God,”, 515

in a minor sense “gods” and “partakers of the divine nature,”, 515

has “a deeper depth” rooted and grounded in God, 515

created a personal being with power to know and determine self, 515

his natural likeness to God inalienable and the capacity that makes redemption possible, 515

his personality further defined, 515

should reverence his humanity, 515, 516

originally possessed such a direction of affections and will as constituted God the supreme end of his being, and himself a finite reflection of God's moral attributes, 517

his chief endowment, holiness, 517

his original righteousness as taught in Scripture, 517

in what the dignity of his human nature consists, 517

his original righteousness not the essence of his human nature, 518

his original righteousness not a gift from without and after creation, 518

his original righteousness a tendency of affections and will to God, 518

his original righteousness propagable to descendants, 518

his likeness to God, more than the perfect mutual adjustment of his spiritual powers, 519

his fall assigned by some to pre-existent state, 519

“the image of God” in, was, some say, merely the possibility (Anlage) of real likeness, 519

his individual will not the author of his condition of sin or of holiness, 519

since he originally knew God, must have loved God, 519, 520

primal “image of God,” not simply ability to be like God, but actual likeness, 520

if morally neutral, is a violator of God's law, 520

the original “image of God” in, more than capacity for religion, 520

scholastics and the Romanist church distinguished between “image” and “likeness” as applied to his first estate, 520

his nature at creation, according to Romanism, received a donum superadditum of grace, 520

his progress from the state in puris naturalibus to the state spoliatus a nudo, as the Romish church teaches, pictorially stated, 521

the Romish theory as to his original state considered in detail, 520-523

results of his original possession of the divine image, 523-525

his physical form reflects his original endowment, 523

originally possessed an æquale temperamentum of body and spirit which, though physically perfect, was only provisional, 523

had dominion over the lower creation, 524

enjoyed communion with God, 524, 525

concomitants of his possession of the divine image, 525-532

his surroundings and society fitted to afford happiness and help, 525, 526

his wife and her creation, 525

was perhaps hermaphrodite, 526

his garden, Eden, 526

provisions for trying his virtue, 526, 527

opportunity for securing for himself physical immortality, 527

the first, had he maintained his integrity, would have been developed and transformed without undergoing death, 527

the Scriptural view of his original state opposed by those who hold a prehistoric development of the race from savagery to civilization, 527

the originally savage condition of, an ill-founded assumption, 527-531

[pg 1094]

the Scriptural account of his original state opposed by those who hold the Positivist theory of the three consecutive conditions of knowledge, 531

the assumption that he must hold fetichism, polytheism, and monotheism in successive steps, if he progresses religiously, contradicted by facts, 531, 532

monotheistic before polytheistic, 531, 532

in some stocks never practiced fetichism, 532

the earliest discovered sepulchral remains of, prove by presence of food and weapons an advance upon fetichism, 532

his theologic thought not transient but rooted in his intuitions and desires, 532

in what sense a law unto himself, 539

as finite needs law, 542

as a free being needs moral law, 542

as a progressive being needs an ideal and infinite standard of attainment, 542

according to Scripture responsible for more than his merely personal acts, 634

not wholly a spontaneous development of inborn tendencies, 649

the ideal, realized only in Christ, 678, 679

his reconciliation to God, 777-885

his perfection reached only in the world to come, 981

Manhood of Christ, ideal, 678, 679

Manichæanism, 382, 670

Moriolatry, invocation of saints, and transubstantiation, origin of, 673

Marriage, a type of human and divine nature in Christ, 693

'Mary, mother of God,', 671, 686

Material force as little observable as divine agency, 8

organism, not necessarily a hindrance to activity of spirit, 1021

Materialism, idealism, and pantheism, arise from desire after scientific unity, 90

Materialism, what?, 90

element of truth in, 90

objection to, from intuition, 92

objection to, from mind's attributes, 92, 93

cannot explain the psychical from the physical, 93

furnishes no sufficient cause for highest phenomena of universe, 94

furnishes no evidence of consciousness in others, 94, 95

Sadducean, denies resurrection of body, 1018

recent, its services to proper views of body, 1018

Materialistic Idealism, 95-100

its definition, 95

its development, 95-97

defective in its definition of matter, 97

defective in its definition of mind, 97, 98

opposed to the imperative assumptions of non-empirical, transcendent knowledge of things-in-themselves, 98

however modified, cumbered with the difficulties of pure materialism, 98, 99

a view of, held by many Christian thinkers, 99, 100

Mathematics, a disclosure of the divine nature, 261

crystallized, the heavens are, 261

Matter, regarded as atoms which have force as a universal and inseparable property, 90, 91

in its more modern aspect, a manifestation of force, 91

the Tyndall and Crookes deliverances regarding, 91

mind intuitively regarded as different from it in kind, and higher in rank, 92

to be regarded as secondary and subordinate to mind, 93

and mind, relations between, 93, 94

does it provide “the needful objectivity for God”?, 347

its eternity not disprovable by reason, 374

not stuff that emanated from God, 385

not stuff, but an activity of God, 385

according to Schelling, esprit gelé, 386

its continuance dependent on God, 413

made by God, and, therefore, pure, 560

its capacities, as subservient to spirit, inestimable, 1021, 1022

Memory, its impeccability in the case of the apostles, secured by promised Spirit, 207

a preparation for the final judgment, 1026

of an evil deed, becomes keener with time, 1029

Memra, relation to Johannine Logos, 320

Mendacium officiosum, 262

Mennonites, 970

Mens humana capax divinæ, 212

Mens rea, essential to crime, 554

Mercy, in the God of nature, some indications which point to, 113

optional, 271, 296, 297

defined, 289

[pg 1095]

divine, a matter of revelation, 296

election a matter of, 779

Messiah, 321, 667, 668

Metaphysical generation of the soul, 493

Military theory of atonement, 747

Millennium, 1008-1015

Mind, has no parts, yet divisible, 9

its organizing instinct, 15, 16

gives both final and efficient cause, 76

recognizes itself as another and higher than the material organization it uses, 92

its attributes and itself different in kind and higher in rank than matter, 92, 93

not transformed physical force, 93

the only substantive thing in the universe, all else is adjective, 94

unsatisfactorily defined as a “series of feelings aware of itself,”, 97

Absolute, not conditioned as the finite mind, 104

“carnal,” its meaning, 592

Minister, his chief qualification, 17

his relation to church work, 898

forfeiture of his standing as, 923, 924

Miracle, a preliminary definition, 117

modified definition suggested by Babbage, 117, 118

“signality” must be preserved in definition of, 118

preferable definition, 118, 119

never regarded in Scripture as an infraction of law, 119

natural processes may be in, 119

the attitude of some theologians towards, irrational, 120

a number of opinions upon, presented, 120

possibility of, 121-123

not beyond the power of a God dwelling in and controlling the universe, shown in some observations, 121-123

possibility of, doubly strong to those who give the Logos or Divine Reason his place in his universe, 122

possible on Lotzean view of universe, 123

possible because God is not far away, 123

possible because of the action and reaction between the world and the personal Absolute, 123

a presumption against, 124

presupposes, and derives its value from, law, 124

a uniformity of nature, inconsistent with miracle, non-existent, 124

no one is entitled to say a priori that it is impossible (Huxley), 124

but the higher stage as seen from the lower, 125

when the efficient cause gives place to the final cause, 125

exists because the uniformity of nature is of less importance in the sight of God than the moral growth of the human spirit, 125

“the greatest I know, my conversion” (Vinet), 125

our view of, determined by our belief in a moral or a non-moral God, 126

is extraordinary, never arbitrary, 126

not a question of power, but of rationality and love, 126

implies self-restraint and self-unfolding, 126

accompanied by a sacrifice of feeling on the part of Christ, 126

probability of, greater from point of view of ethical monism, 126

a work in which God lovingly limits himself, 126

probability of, drawn from the concessions of Huxley, 127

the amount of testimony necessary to prove a, 127

Hume's misrepresentation of the abnormality of, 127

Hume's argument against, fallacious, 127

evidential force of, 128-131

accompanies and attests new communications from God, 128

its distribution in history, 128, 129

its cessation or continuance, 128, 132, 133

certifies directly not to the truth of a doctrine, but of a teacher, 129

must be supported by purity of life and doctrine, 129

to see in all nature the working of the living God removes prejudice against, 130

the revelation of God, not the proof of that revelation, 130

does not lose its value in the process of ages, 130

of the resurrection sustains the authority of Christ as a teacher, 130

of Christ's resurrection, is it “an obsolete picture of an eternal truth”?, 130

of Christ's resurrection, has complete historical attestation, 130, 131

of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by the swoon-theory of Strauss, 131

of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by the spirit-theory of Keim, 131

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of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by the vision-theory of Renan, 131

of Christ's resurrection, its three lessons, 131

the counterfeit, 132

only a direct act of God a, 132

the counterfeit, attests the true, 132

how the false, may be distinguished from the true, 132, 133

Miracles as attesting Divine Revelation, 117-133

Mohammedanism, 186, 347, 427

Molecular movement and thought, 93

Molecules, manufactured articles, 77

Molluscs, their beauty inexplicable by “natural selection,”, 471

Monarchians, 327

Monism presents that deep force, in which effects, psychical and bodily, find common origin, 69

there must be a basal, 80

Monism, Ethical, defined, 105

consistent with the teachings of Holy Writ, 105

the faith of Augustine, 105

the faith of Anselm, 105, 106

embraces the one element of truth in pantheism, 106

is entirely consistent with ethical fact, 106

is Metaphysical Monism qualified by Psychological Monism, 106

is supplanting Dualism in philosophic thought, 106

it rejects the two main errors of pantheism, 107, 109

it regards the universe as a finite, partial, and progressive revelation of God, 107, 108

it regards matter as God's limitation under law of necessity, 107

it regards humanity as God's self-limitation under law of freedom, 107

it regards incarnation and atonement as God's self-limitation under law of grace, 107

regards universe as related to God as thought to the thinker, 107

regards nature as the province of God's pledged and habitual causality, 107

is the doctrine largely of the poets, 107, 108

guarantees individuality and rights of each portion of universe, 108

in moral realm estimates worth by the voluntary recognition and appropriation of the divine, 108

does not, like pantheism, involve moral indifference to the variations observed in universe, 108

does not regard saint and sensualist, men and mice as of equal value, 108

it regards the universe as a graded and progressing manifestation of God's love for righteousness and opposition to wrong, 108

it recognizes the mysterious power of selfhood to oppose the divine law, 108

it recognizes the protective and vindicatory reaction of the divine against evil, 108

it gives ethical content to Spinoza's apophthegm, 'all things serve,', 108

it neither cancels moral distinctions, nor minifies retribution, 108

recognizes Christ as the Logos of God in its universal acceptance, 109

recognizes as the Creator, Upholder, and Governor of the universe, Him who in history became incarnate and by death made atonement for human sin, 109

rests on Scriptural statements, 109

secures a Christian application of modern philosophical doctrine, 109

gives a more fruitful conception of matter, 109

considers nature as the omnipresent Christ, 109

presents Christ as the unifying reality of physical, mental and moral phenomena, 109

its relation to pantheism and deism, 109

furnishes a foundation for new interpretation in theology and philosophy, 109

helps to acceptance of Trinitarianism, 109

teaches that while the natural bond uniting to God cannot be broken, the moral bond may, 109, 110

how it interprets “rejecting” Christ, 110

enables us to understand the principle of the atonement, 110

strengthens the probability of miracle, 126

teaches that God is pure and perfect mind that passes beyond all phenomena and is their ground, 255

teaches that “that which hath been made was life in him,” Christ, 311

teaches that in Christ all things “consist,” hold together, as cosmos rather than chaos, 311

teaches that gravitation, evolution, and the laws of nature are Christ's habits, and nature but his constant will, 311

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teaches that in Christ is the intellectual bond, the uniformity of law, the unity of truth, 311

teaches that Christ is the principle of induction, the medium of interaction, and the moral attraction of the universe, reconciling all things in heaven and earth, 311

teaches that God transcendent, the Father, is revealed by God immanent, the Son, 314

teaches that Christ is the life of nature, 337

teaches that creation is thought in expression, reason externalized, 381

teaches a dualism that holds to underground connections of life between man and man, man and nature, man and God, 386

teaches that the universe is a life and not a mechanism, 391

teaches that God personally present in the wheat makes it grow, and in the dough turns it into bread, 411

teaches that every man lives, moves, and has his being in God, and that whatever has come into being, whether material or spiritual, has its life only in Christ, 413

teaches that “Dei voluntas est rerum natura,”, 413

teaches that nothing finite is only finite, 413

its further teaching concerning natural forces and personal beings, 413, 414, 418, 419

allows of “second cause,”, 416

Monogenism, modern science in favor of, 480

Monophysites, 672

see Eutychians.

Monotheism, facts point to an original, 56, 531

Hebrew, preceeds polytheistic systems of antiquity, 531, 532

more and more evident in heathen religions as we trace them back, 531, 532

an original, authors on, 531, 532

Montanists, 304

Montanus, 712

Moral argument for the existence of God, the designation criticized, 81

faculty, its deliverances, evidences of an intelligent cause, 82

freedom, what?, 361

nature of man, 497-513

likeness to himself, how restored by God, 518

law, what?, 537-544

law, man's relations to, reach beyond consciousness, 594

government of God, recognizes race-responsibilities, 594

union of human and divine in Christ, 671

analogies of atonement, 716

evil, see Sin.

obligation, its grounds determined, 298-303

judgments, involve will, 841

Morality, Christian, a fruit of doctrine, 16

of N. T., 177, 178

Christian, criticized by Mill, 179

heathen systems of, 179-186

of Bible, progressive, 230

mere insistence on, cannot make men moral, 863

“Morning stars,”, 445

“Mother of God,”, 681

Motive, not cause but occasion, 360, 506

man never acts without or contrary to, 360

a ground of prediction, 360

influences, without infringing on free agency, 360

the previously dominant, not always the impulsive, 360

Motives, man can choose between, 360

persuade but never compel, 362, 506, 649

not wholly external to mind influenced by them, 506, 817

lower, sometimes seemingly appealed to in Scripture, 826, 827

Muratorian Canon, 147

Music, reminiscent of possession lost, 526

Mystic, 31, 81

Mysticism, true and false, 32

Mystik and Mysticismus, 31

Myth, its nature, 155

as distinguished from saga and legend, 155

“the Divine Spirit can avail himself of” (Sabatier), 155

'may be made the medium of revelation' (Denney), 214

not a falsehood, 155, 214

early part of Genesis may be of the nature of a, 214

Myth-theory of the origin of the gospels (Strauss), 155-157

described, 155, 156

objected to, 156, 157

authors on, 157

Nachwirkung and Fortwirkung, 776

“Name, in my,”, 807

Names of God, the five Hebrew,

Ewald on, 318

Nascimur, pascimur, 972

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Natura, 392

Natura enim non nisi parendo vincitur, 541

Natura humana in Christo capax divinæ, 694

Natura naturans (Spinoza), 244, 287

Natura naturata (Spinoza), 244, 287, 700

Naturæ minister et interpres, 2

Natural = psychical, 484

Natural insight as to source of religious knowledge, 203

Natural law, advantages of its general uniformity, 124

events aside from its general fixity to be expected if moral ends require, 125

life, God's gift of, foreshadows larger blessings, 289

realism, and location of mind in body, 280

revelation supplemented by Scripture, 27

Natural Selection, artificial after all, 93

its teaching, 470

is partially true, 470

is not a complete explanation of the history of life, 470

gives no account of origin of substance or variations, 470

by the survival does not explain the arrival of the fittest, 470

does not explain the sudden and apparently independent appearance of important geologic forms, 470

certain entomological and anatomical facts are inexplicable upon the theory of, 471

fails to explain the beauty in lower forms of life, 471

no species has as yet been produced by either artificial or, 472

does not necessarily make the idea of Creator superfluous, 473

may account for man's place in, but not above, nature, 473

requires, according to Wallace, a superior intelligence to guide in definite direction or for special purpose, 473

a list of authors upon, 474

atheistically taught, is election with hope and pity left out, 784

Natural theology, what?, 260

Nature, its usual sense, 26, 121

its proper sense, 26, 121

its witness to God, outward and inward, 26

argument for God's existence from change in, 73-75

argument for God's existence from useful collocation in, 75-80

Mill's indictment of, 78

apart from man, cannot be interpreted, 79

does not assure us of God's love and provision for the sinner, 113, 114

by itself furnishes a presumption against miracles, 124

as synonym of substance, 243

according to Schleiermacher, 287

its forces, dependent and independent, 414

the brute submerged in, 468

human, why it should be reverenced, 515

in what sense sin a, 518

as something inborn, 518, 577, 578

the race has a corrupted nature, 577-582

sinful acts and dispositions explained by a corrupt, 577

a corrupt, belongs to man from first moment of his being, 578

a corrupt, underlies man's consciousness, 578

a corrupt, which cannot be changed by a man's own power, 578

a corrupt, the common heritage of the race, 578

designates, not substance, but corruption of substance, 578

how responsible for a depraved, which one did not personally originate, 593

human, Pelagian view of, 598

human, semi-Pelagian view of, 598

human, Augustinian view of, 598

human, organic view of, 600

human, atomistic view of, 600

the whole human race once a personality in Adam, 629

human, can apostatize but once, 630

human, totally depraved, 637-639

man can to a certain extent modify his, 642

sin of, and personal transgression, 648

impersonal human, 694

and person, 694, 695

Robinson's definition of, 695

human, is it to develop into new forms, 986

“Nature of things, in the,” the phrase examined, 357

Nazarenes, 669

see Ebionites.

Nebular hypothesis, 395

Necessitarian philosophy, correct for the brute, 468

Negation, involves affirmation, 9

Neron Kaisar, and “666”, 1009

Nescience, divine, 286

see God.

Nestorians, 671

Neutrality, moral, never created by God, 521

moral, a sin, 521

New England theology, 48, 49

New Haven theology, 49

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New School theology, 48, 49, 606

its definition of holiness, 271, 272

its definition of sin, how it differs from that of Old School, 549, 550

ignores the unconscious and subconscious elements in human character, 550

its watchword as to sin, 595

its theory of imputation, an evasion, 596

its theory of imputation explained, 606, 607

development of its theory of inspiration, 607, 608

modifications of view within, 608

contradicts Scripture, 608, 609

its advocates cannot understand Paul, 609

rests upon false philosophical principles, 609, 610

impugns the justice of God, 610, 611

inconsistent with facts, 611, 612

its aim that of all the theories of imputation, 612

Nihil in intellectu nisi quod ante fuerit in sensu, 63

Nineveh, winged creatures of, 449

Nirvana, 182

Noblesse oblige, 301

Nomina become numina, 245

Nominalism inconsistent with Scripture, 244

Nominalist notion of God's nature, 244

Non-apostolic writings recommended by apostles, 201

Non-inspiration, seeming, of certain Scriptures, 242

Non pleni nascimur, 597

“Nothing, creation out of,”, 372

Notitia, an element in faith, 837

Noumenon in external and internal phenomena, 6

Nullus in microcosmo spiritus, nullus in macrocosmo Deus, 79

Obduracy, sins of, incomplete and final, 650

Obedience, Christ's active and passive, 749, 770

“Obey,” not the imperative of religion, 21

Obligation to obey law based on man's original ability, 541

Offences between men, 766

between church members, 924, 925

Old School theology, 49, 606, 607

Omission, sins of, 554, 648

Omne vivum e vivo (ex ovo), 389

Omnia mea mecum porto, 1032

Omnipotence of God, 286-288

see God.

Omnipresence of God, 279-282

see God.

Omnipresent, how God might cease to be, 282

Omniscience of God, 282-286

see God.

“One eternal now,” how to be understood, 277

Ontological argument for existence of God, 85-89

see God.

Optimism, 404, 405

Oracles, ancient, 135

Ordinances of the church, 929-980

Ordination of church officers, 918-929

Ordo salutis, 794

Organic and organized substances, 93

Organic, the, and atomistic views of human nature, 600

Original “image of God” in man, its nature, 514-523

Original natural likeness to God, or personality, 515, 519, 520

moral likeness to God, man's, or holiness, 516-518

righteousness, what? 517, 518

knowledge of God, man's, implied a direction of the affections and will toward God, 519

sin, as held by Old School theologians, 49

two-fold problem of, 593

its definition, 594, 595

two principles fundamental to consideration of, 595

a correct view of race-responsibility essential to a correct view of, 595

some facts in connection with the guilt of, 596

substance of Scriptural teaching concerning, 625-627

a misnomer, if applied to any theory but that of its author, Augustine, 636

no one finally condemned merely on account of, 596, 663, 664

state of man, 514-533

essentials of, 514-522

results of, 523-525

concomitants of, 525-532

Romish and Protestant views of, 521, 522

Os sublime, manifestation of internal endowments, 523

Pain, physical, existed before entrance of moral evil into world, 402

this supralapsarian pain, how to be regarded, 402

due not to God, but to man, 402

verdicts declarative of the secondary place of, 402

cannot explain its presence here by the good it may do, 403

it is God's protest against sin, 403

has its reason in the misconduct of man, 403

supralapsarian pain an “anticipative consequence,”, 403

God's frown upon sin, and warning against it, 403

Palestine, 174, 421

Pantheism, Idealistic, defined, 100

the elements of truth in, 100

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its error, 100

denies real existence of the finite, 100

deprives the infinite of self-consciousness and freedom, 100

in it the worshiped is the worshiper, 100

the later Brahmanism is, 100

the fruit of absence of will and longing for rest as end of existence, as among Hindus, 100

in Hegelianism, presents the alternative, no God or no man, 100

of Hegel and Spinoza, 100, 101

of Hegel, its different interpreters, 101

of Hegel, as modified by Schopenhauer, 101

its idea of God self-contradictory, 101, 102

its asserted unity of substance without proof, 102

it assigns no sufficient cause for highest fact of universe, personal intelligence, 102

it contradicts the affirmations of our moral and religious nature, 103

antagonizes our intuitive conviction of the absolute perfection of God, 104

its objection that in eternity there was not not-self over against the Infinite to call forth self-consciousness, without foundation, 104

denies miracle, 122

denies inspiration, 204

anti-trinitarianism leads to, 347

involved in doctrine of emanation, 383

assumes that law fully expresses God, 547

should worship Satan, 566

at basis of Docetism, 676

not involved in doctrine of Union with Christ, 800

Parables, 240, 784

Paradise, 403, 998, 999

Paradoxon summum evangelicum, 753

Pardon, limited by atonement, objections to, refuted, 766

its conditions can of right be assigned by God, 767

the act of God as judge in justification, 855

and justification distinguished, 858, 859

through Christ, honors God's justice and mercy, 860

Parseeism, 185

Parsimony, law of, 74, 87

Passion, the, necessitated by Christ's incarnation, 760

Passover, 157, 723, 726, 960

Pastor, 908, 914, 915, 917

“Pastors and teachers,”, 915

Patripassians, 327

Paul, 210, 235, 851, 999

Peace, 865

Peccatum alienum, 616

Pelagianism, a development of rationalism, 89

its theory of imputation, 597-601

its principal author and present advocates, 597

its exposition, 597

its view of Romans 5:12, 597

its seven points, 597

its sinless men, 597

its “non pleni nascimur,”, 597

its misinterpretation of the divine influence in man, 597

is deism applied to man's nature, 598

ignores his dignity and destiny, 598

unformulated and sporadic, 598

unscriptural, 598, 599

a survival of paganism, 598

its key doctrine: Homo libero arbitrio emancipatus a Deo, 598

its unscriptural tenets specified, 598, 599

regards sins as isolated volitions, 599

its method contrasted with that of Augustinianism, 599

presents an Ebionitic view of Christ, 599

its principles false in philosophy, 600

ignores law by which acts produce states, 600

Penalty, what?, 294, 652, 653

Penalty, 652-660

its idea, 652

more than natural consequences of transgression, 652

not essentially reformatory, 653

what essentially?, 653

not essentially to secure social or governmental safety, 653, 655

not essentially deterrent, 655

of sin, two-fold, 656

of sin, is physical death, 656-659

of sin, is spiritual death, 659, 660

Penitence, 766

Pentateuch (Hexateuch), its authorship, 170-172

literature upon, 172

Perfect, as applied to men, 574

Perfection, in God, 9, 260-275

of Christian and church reached in world to come, 981

Perfectionism, its tenet, 877

its teachers, 877

its modifications, 877

authorities upon, 877

its fundamental false conceptions, 877, 878

is contradicted by Scripture, 878-886

disproved by Christian experience, 880

how best met, 880, 881

Permanent states of the faculties, 506, 550, 551

Perseverance, human side of sanctification, 868, 881

definition, 881

its proof from Scripture, 882

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its proof from reason, 882, 883

is not inconsistent with human freedom, 883

does not tend to immorality, 883, 884

does not lead to indolence, 884

the Scriptural warnings against apostasy do not oppose it, 884, 885

apparent instances of apostasy do not oppose it, 885, 886

list of authors on general subject of, 886

“Person” in doctrine of Trinity, only approximately accurate, 330

Person, how communicated in different measures, 324

Person and character of Christ, as proof of revelation, 186-190

Person of Christ, the doctrine of, 669-700

historical survey of views regarding, 669-673

the two natures in their reality and integrity, 673-683

the union of the two natures in one, 683-700

Personal identity, 92, 417

intelligences cannot be accounted for by pantheism, 102

influence, often distinct from word spoken, 820

Personality, defined, 82, 252, 253, 330, 335, 515, 695

of God, the conclusion of the anthropological argument, 84

of God, denied by pantheism, 100

the highest dependent on infiniteness, 104

self-conscious and self-determining, 253

triple, in Godhead, consistent with essential unity, 330

in man, inalienable, 515

involves boundless possibilities, 515

foundation of mutual love among men, 515

constitutes a capacity for redemption, 515

Pessimism, 404, 405

Peter, how he differed with Paul, 214

Romish assumptions regarding, 909

Peter, Second, 147, 149, 153

Pharaoh, the hardening of his heart, 434

Phenomena, 6

Philemon and Onesimus, moralized, 767

Philosophy, defined, 42

Physico-theological argument, a term of Kant's, 75

Physiology, comparative, favors unity of race, 480-483

Pictures of Christ, 251

Pie hoc potest dici, Deum esse Naturam, 107

Plasticity of species, greater toward origin, 482

Plural quantitative, 318

Pluralis majestaticus, 318

Poesy and poem, 852

Poetry, 526

Polytheism, 259, 347

Pools of modern Jerusalem, 934

Positive Philosophy, 6, 9, 535, 545, 632

Possession by demons, 456

Præterist interpreters of Revelation, 1009

Prayer, relation of Providence to, 433

its effect, not solely reflex influence, 433

its answers not confined to spiritual means, 433

not answered by suspension or breach of the order of nature, 434

has no direct influence on nature, 434

is answered by new combinations of natural forces, 434

as an appeal to a personal and present God, it moves God, 435

its answer, while an expression of God's will, may come through the use of appointed means, 435

God's immanency in nature helps to a solution of the problem, how prayer is answered, 436

how the potency of prayer may be tested, 437, 438

Prayer-book, English, Arminian, 46

on infant baptism, 957

Prayer-book of Edward VI, mode of baptism in, 957

Preaching of doctrinal sermons, 19

of the decrees, 369

of the organic unity of the race in transgression, 634

larger part of, should consist in application of Divine law to personal acts, 648, 649

addressed to elect and non-elect, 789

must press immediate submission to Christ, 830

of everlasting punishment an auxiliary to the gospel appeal, 1053

Pre-Adamites, 476

Precedent, N. T., the 'common-law' of the church, 970

“Preconformity to future events,”, 76

Predestination, 355, 360, 781

Predicata, not attributes, 245

Prediction, only a part of prophecy, 134, 710

“Pre-established harmony,”, 93

Pre-existence of soul, 488-491

Preference, immanent, 514

“elective,”, 557

Preparation, historical, for redemption, 665-668

Prerational instinct, 98

Prescience, Divine, 286

Presentative intuition, 52, 53, 67

Preservation, 410-419

definition of, positive and negative, 410, 411

proofs of, from Scripture and reason, 411-414

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deism, with its God withdrawn, denies, 414, 415

continuous creation, with momently new universe, inconsistent with, 415-418

divine concurrence in, considered, 418, 419

Pretermission of sin, 772

Preventive providence, 423

Pride, 569

“Priest” and “minister,”, 915, 967

Priestly office of Christ, 713-775

Probability, 71

Probation after death, 707, 1002, 1031-1044

in Adam, 629

Procession of the Holy Spirit, its true formula, 323

consistent with his equality in Trinity, 340, 341

Progress of early Christianity, what principally conduced to?, 187

Prolegomena, 1-15

Proof of Divine Revelation, principles of evidence applicable to, 41-44

Prophecy, as attesting a divine revelation, 134-141

defined in its narrow sense, 134, 135

its relation to miracles, 135

requirements in, 135

general features of Scriptural, 135, 136

Messianic in general, 136

as used by Christ, 136-138

the double sense of, 138-140

evidential force of, 140, 141

alleged errors in, 235, 236

Christians have gifts of, 712

modern, as far as true, what?, 712

Prophet, not always aware of meaning of his own prophecies, 139

later may elucidate earlier utterances, 235, 236

his soul, is it rapt into God's timeless existence and vision?, 278

larger meaning of the word, 710

Prophetæ priores, 710

Prophetic office of Christ, 710-713

see Christ.

its nature, 710, 711

fulfilled in three ways, 711

its four stages, 711-713

in his Logos-work, 711

in his earthly ministry, 711, 712

in his guidance and teaching of the church since his ascension, 712

in his revelations of the Father to the saints in glory, 712, 713

will be eternal, 712

Propitiation, 719, 720

Proprietates, distinguished from attributes, 246

Proselyte-baptism, 931, 932

Protevangelium, Scripture germinally, 175

Providence, doctrine of, 419-443

defined, 419

explains evolution and progress of universe, 419, 420

doctrine of, its proof from Scripture, 421-425

a general providential control, 421, 422

a control extending to free actions of men in general, 422, 423

four sorts, preventive, permissive, directive, determinative, 423-425

rational proof of, 425-427

arguments a priori, 425, 426

arguments a posteriori, 426

opposed by theory of fatalism, 427

opposed by casualism, 427, 428

opposed by theory of a merely general providence, 428-431

its relation to miracles and works of grace, 431-433

its relation to prayer, 433-439

its relation to Christian activity, 439-441

to evil acts of free agents, 441-443

'Providential miracles,', 432

Psychic phenomena, 117

Punctiliousness, warning against, 428

Punishment, implied in man's moral nature, 82

does not proceed from love, 272

proceeds from justice, 293

its idea, 652, 752

what implied in its idea, 652-656

has in it, beyond the natural consequences of transgression, a personal element, 652

its object not the reformation of the sufferer, 653

is the necessary reaction of divine holiness against sin, 653

is not essentially deterrent, 655

of sin is physical death, 656-659

of sin is spiritual death, 659, 660

an ethical need of the divine nature, 751

an ethical need in man's moral nature, 751

of guilty, Christ's sufferings substituted for, 752

is borne by the judge and punisher in the nature that has sinned, 752

as presented in atonement, what it secures, 753

endured by Christ righteously, because of his relation to the sinning race, 754, 755

remitted in justification, 854

remitted on the ground of what Christ, to whom the sinner is united by faith, has done, 854, 858

the final, of the wicked described in Scriptural figures, 1033, 1034

the final, of the wicked, summed up, 1034

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future, some concessions regarding, 1035

of wicked, the future, not annihilation, 1035, 1036

not a weakening process ending in cessation of existence, 1036, 1037

not an annihilating punishment after death, 1037

light from the evolutionary process thrown on, 1038

excludes new probation and ultimate restoration of the wicked, 1039

declared in Scripture to be eternal, 1044

is a revelation of God's justice, 1046

as the reaction of holiness against sin must continue while sin continues, 1046, 1047

is endless since guilt is endless, 1048

is eternal since sin is “eternal,”, 1048

the facts of human life and tendencies of scientific thought point to the perpetuity of, 1049

may have degrees yet be eternal, 1050

may be eternal as the desert of sin of infinite enormity, 1050

not inconsistent with God's benevolence, 1051-1054

its proper preaching not a hindrance to success of the gospel, 1054

if it is a fact, it ought to be preached, 1054

to ignore it in pulpit teaching lowers the holiness of God, 1055

the fear of, not the highest but a proper motive to seek salvation, 1055

in preaching it, the misery of the soul should have special emphasis, 1056

Purgatory, 659, 866, 1000-1002

Purification of Christ, the ritual, 761, 942, 943

Puritans, 546, 557

Purpose of God includes many decrees, 353

in election, what?, 355

in reprobation, what?, 355

to save individuals, passages which prove, 780-783

to do what he does, eternal, 783

to save, not conditioned upon merit or faith, 784

Quasi carcere, Christ not thus in Heaven, 709

Quia voluit of Calvin, not final answer as to God's acts, 404

Quickening, Christ's, distinguished from his resurrection, 707

Quietism, 439, 440

Quo non ascendam? not Christ's query, 764

Race, Scripture teaches its descent from a single pair, 476

its descent from a single pair a foundation truth of Paul's, 476

its descent from a single pair the foundation of brotherhood, 476

its descent from a single pair corroborated by history, 477, 478

its descent from a single pair corroborated by language, 478, 479

its descent from a single pair corroborated by psychology, 479, 480

its descent from a single pair corroborated by physiology, 480-483

Race-responsibility, 594-597

Rational intuition, 52, 67

Rationalism and Scripture, 29, 30, 89

Readings, various, 226

Realism, in relation to God, 245

Reason, definition of, 4, 29

its office, 29

says scio, not conscio, 500

moral, depraved, 501

Reasoning, not reason, 29

not a source of the idea of God, 65

errors of, in Bible, 232, 233

Recognition, post-resurrectional, 1020, 1021

Recollection of things not before seen, the seeming, explained, 488

memory greater than, 705

Reconciliation, removal of God's wrath, 719

of man to God, 777-886

objective, secured by Christ's union with race, 802

subjective, secured by Christ's union with believers, 802

Redemption and resurrection, what is secured by, 527

wrought by Christ, 665-776

its meaning, 707

legal, of Christ, its import, 761

its application, 777-886

application of, in its preparation, 777-793

application of, in its actual beginning, 793-868

application of, in its continuation, 868-886

Redi's maxim, 389

Reformed theology, 44-46

Regenerate, some apparently such, will fall away, 884

the truly, not always distinguishable in this life from the seemingly so, 884

their fate if they should not persevere described, 885

these warnings secure their perseverance, 885

Regeneration, illustrative of inspiration, 212

ascribed to Holy Spirit, 316

its nature, according to Romanists, 522

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the view that a child may be educated into, 606

its place in the ordo salutis, 793

does a physical miracle attend?, 806

defined, 809

its active and passive aspects, 809

how represented in Scripture, 810-812

indispensable, 810

a change in the inmost principle of life, 810

a change in governing disposition, 810

a change in moral relations, 810, 811

wrought through use of truth, 811

is instantaneous, 811

wrought by God, 811

through union of soul with Christ, 811, 812

its necessity, 812-814

its efficient cause, 814-820

the will not the efficient cause, 815-817

is more than self-reformation, 815

is not co-operation with divine influence, which to the natural man is impossible, 816

the truth is not the efficient cause, 817, 818

the Holy Spirit, the efficient cause of, 818-820

the Spirit in, operates not on the truth but on the soul, 819

the Spirit in, effects a change in the moral disposition, 820

the instrumentality used in, 820-823

baptism a sign of, 821

as a spiritual change cannot be effected by physical means, 821

is accomplished through the instrumentality of the truth, 822

man not wholly passive at time of his, 822

man's mind at time of, active in view of truth, 822

nature of the change wrought in, 823-829

is a change by which governing disposition is made holy, 823-825

does not affect the quantity but the quality of the soul, 824

involves an enlightenment of the understanding and a rectification of the volitions, 825

an origination of holy tendencies, 826

an instantaneous change in soul, below consciousness and known only in results, 826-829

is an instantaneous change, 826, 827

should not be confounded with preparatory stages, 827

taken place in region of the soul below consciousness, 828

is recognized indirectly in its results, 828, 829

the growth that follows, is sanctification, 829

Regna, gloriæ, gratiæ (et naturæ), 775

Reign of sin, what?, 553, 554

Religion and theology, how related, 19

derivation of word, 19, 20

false conceptions of it advocated by Hegel, Schleiermacher, and Kant, 20, 21

its essential idea, 21, 22

there is but one, 22, 23

its content greater than that of theology, 23

distinguished from formal worship, 23, 24

conspectus of the systems of, in world, 179-186

Remorse, perhaps an element in Christ's suffering, 769

Reparative goodness of God in nature, 113

Repentance, more for sin than sins, 555

the gift of God, 782

described, 832

contains an intellectual element, 832

contains an emotional element, 832, 833

contains a voluntary element, 833, 834

implies free-will, 834

Romish view, 834

wholly an inward act, 834

manifested by fruits of repentance, 835

a negative and not a positive means of salvation, 835

if true, is in conjunction with faith, 836

accompanies true faith, 836

Reprobation, 355

Rerum natura Dei voluntas est, 119

Respice, aspice, prospice of Bernard applied to prophet's function, 710

Responsibility for whatever springs from will, 509

for inherited moral evil, its ground, 509

is special help of Spirit essential to? 603, 604

for a sinful nature which one did not personally originate, a fact, 629

none for immediate heredities, 630

for belief, authors on, 841

Restoration of all human beings, 1039-1044

Resurrection, an event not within the realm of nature, 118

of Christ, the central and sufficient evidence of Christianity, 138

of Christ, dilemma for those who deny, 130

of Christ, Strauss fails to explain belief in, 157

of Christ, attested by epistles regarded as genuine by Baur, 160

of Christ, Renan's view of, 160, 161

Christ's argument for, Matt. 22:32, 232, 996, 1018

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attributed to Christ, 310

attributed to Holy Spirit, 316

of Christ, angel present at, 483

of Christ, gave proof that penalty of sin was exhausted, 657

a stage in Christ's exaltation, 707

proclaimed Christ as perfected and glorified man, 708

of Christ, the time of his justification, 762

secured to believer by union with Christ, 805, 806, 867

relation to regeneration, 824

sanctification completed at the, 874

of Christ and of the believer, Baptism a symbol of, 940-945

implied in symbolism of Lord's Supper, 963, 964

Christ's body, an object that may be worshiped, 968

an event preparing for the kingdom of God, 981

allusions to, in O. T., 995

of Christ, the only certain proof of immortality, 997

perfect joy or misery subsequent to, 1002

Scriptures describing a spiritual, 1015

Scriptures describing a physical, 1015

art and post-resurrection possibilities, 1016

personality in, being indestructible, takes to itself a body, 1016

Christ's body in, an open question, 1016

an exegetical objection to, 1016

“of the body,” the phrase not in N. T., 1016

receive a “spiritual body” in, 1016, 1017

the indwelling of the Holy Spirit secures preservation of body in, 1017

the believer's, as literal and physical as Christ's, 1018

literal, to be suitable to events which accompany, 1018

the physical connection between old and new body in, not unscientific, 1019

the oneness of the body in, and our present body, rests on two things, 1020

the body in, though not absolutely the same, will be identical with the present, 1020, 1021

the spiritual body in, will complete rather than confine, the activities of spirit, 1021, 1022

four principles should influence our thinking about, 1022, 1023

authors on the subject in departments and entirety, 1023

Revelation, of such a nature as to make scientific theology possible, 11-15

Revelation in nature requires supplementing, 26, 27

God submits to limitations of, which are largely those of theology, 34-36

how regarded in “period of criticism and speculation,”, 46

the Scriptures a, from God, 111-242

reasons for expecting from God a, 111-114

psychology shows that the intellectual and moral nature of man needs a, 111, 112

history shows that man needs a, 112

what we know of God's nature leads to hope of a, 112, 113

a priori reasons for expecting, 113, 114

marks of the expected, 114-117

its substance, 114

its method, 114-116

will have due attestation, 116, 117

attended by miracles, 117-134

attested by prophecy, 134-141

principles of historical evidence entering into proof of, 141-144

Scripture, 175

its connection with inspiration and illumination, 196, 197

Revenge, what?, 569

“Reversion to type” never occurs in man, 411

Rewards, earthly, appealed to in O. T., 230

proceed from goodness of God, 290, 293

not bestowed by justice or righteousness, 293

goodness to creatures, righteousness to Christ, 293

are motives, not sanctions, 535

Right, abstract, not ground of moral obligations, 299

God is self-willing, 338

based on arbitrary will is not right, 338

based on passive nature, is not right, 338

as being is Father, 338

as willing is Son, 338

Righteousness of God, what?, 290

holiness in its mandatory aspect, 291

its meaning in 2 Cor. 5:21, 760

demands punishment of sin, 764

is justification and sanctification, 873

Romanism, and Scripture, 33, 34

a mystical element in, 33

it places church before the Bible, 33

would keep men in perpetual childhood, 33, 34

Sabbath commemorates God's act of creation, 408

made at creation applies to man always and everywhere, 408

recognized in Assyria and Babylonia, as far back as Accadian times before Abraham, 408

was not abrogated by our Lord or his apostles, 409

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upon, 409

Sabbath, Christ's example and apostolic sanction have transferred it from seventh to first day of week, 409

Justin Martyr on, 410

authors on, 410

Sabellianism, 327, 328

Sacrifice, 722-728

what it is not, 722, 723

its true import, 723, 724

pagan and Semitic, its implications, 723, 724

in the legend of Æschylus, 723

of the Passover, H. C. Trumbull's views of, 723

its theocratical and spiritual offices, 724

of O. T., when rightly offered, what implied in, 725, 726

cannot present a formal divine institution, 726

how Abel's differed from Cain's, 727

the terminology of O. T. regarding, needful to correct interpretation of N. T. usage regarding atonement of Christ, 727

differing views as to significance of, 728

Sacrifices, Jewish, a tentative scheme of, 725, 726

Saints, prayer to, 775

how intercessors?, 775

as applied to believers, 880

Sanctification, related to regeneration and justification, 862, 863

definition of, 869

what implied in definition of, 869, 870

explanations and Scripture proof of, 870-875

a work of God, 870

a continuous process, 871

distinguished from regeneration, 871

shown in intelligent and voluntary activity of believer, 871, 872

the agency employed in, the indwelling Spirit of Christ, 872

its mediate or instrumental cause is faith, 872

the object of this instrumental faith is Christ himself, 873

measured by strength of faith, 873

influenced by lack of persistency in using means of growth, 874

completed in life to come, 874

erroneous views of, 875-881

the Antinomian view, 875-877

the Perfectionist view, 877-881

Sanctify, its twofold meaning, 880

Satan, his personality, 447

not a collective term for all evil beings, 447

various literary conceptions of, 447

meaning of term, 454

opposed by Holy Spirit, 454

his temptations, 455

has access to human mind, 455

may influence through physical organism, 455

“delivering to,” 457

was specially active during earthly ministry of Christ, 458

his power limited, 458

the idea of his fall not self-contradictory, 460

not irrational to suppose that by a single act he could change his nature, 460

present passion may lead a wise being to enter on a foolish course, 460

that God should create and uphold evil spirits no more inconsistent with benevolence than similar action towards evil men, 461

a ganglionic centre of an evil system, 461

the doctrine of, if given up, leads to laxity in administration of justice, 462

as tool and slave of, humanity is indeed degraded, but was not always, nor needs to be, 462

the fall of, uncaused from without, 585

like Adam, sins under the best circumstances, 588

permitted to divide the guilt with man that man might not despair, 588

grows in cunning and daring, 1037

Satisfaction to an immanent demand of divine holiness rendered by Christ's obedience and suffering, 713, 723

by substitution founded on incorporation, 723

and forgiveness not mutually exclusive because the judge makes satisfaction to his own violated holiness, 767

penal and pecuniary, 767

sinner's own act, according to Romish view, 834

Scholasticism and Scholastics, 44, 45, 265, 268, 443

Science, defined, 2

its aim, 2

on what its possibility is grounded, 2

requires a knowledge of more than phenomena, 6

existence of a personal God, its necessary datum, 60

Scientia media, simplicis intelligentiæ, visionis, 358

Scientific unity, desire for, its influence, 90

Scio and conscio, 500

Scripture and nature, 26

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and rationalism, 29-31

contains nothing repugnant to a properly conditioned and enlightened reason, 29

and mysticism, 31, 32

and Romanism, 33, 34

knowledge of, incomplete, 35

topics on which silent, 72

supernatural character of its teaching, 175

its moral and religious ideas uncontradicted and unsuperseded, 175

its supernaturally secured unity, 176

Christ testifies to its supernatural character, 189

result of its propagation, 191

how interpreted?, 217

authors differ, divine mind one, 217

the Christian rule of faith and practice, 218

contains no scientific untruth, 224

not a code of practical action, but an enunciation of principles, 545

Scriptures, the, a revelation from God, 111-242

work of one God, and so organically articulated (Scripture), 217

why so many interpretations of?, 223, 224

a rule in their interpretation, 1011

“Sealing,”, 831, 872

Seals, in Revelation, 1010

Selection, natural, without teleological factors, its inadequacy, 391

is it in any sense the cause of the origin of species?, 391

it has probably increased the rapidity of development, 391, 392

or “survival of the fittest,” how suggested?, 403

defined, 470

is partially true, 470

it gives no account of the origin of substance or variations, 470

not the savior of the fittest, but the destroyer of the failures, 470

facts that it cannot explain, 470, 471

nor artificial has produced a new species, 471

Self-limitation, divine, 9, 126, 255

Selfishness, the essence of sin, 567

cannot be resolved into simpler elements, 568

forms in which it manifests itself, 568, 569

of unregenerate, the substitution of a lower for a higher end, 570

Sentimentality, 979

“Signality,” in miracle, 118

Sin, God the author of free beings who are the authors of, 365

the decree to permit not efficient, 365

its permission a difficulty of all theistic systems, 366

its permission, how not to be explained, 366

its permission, how it may be partially explained, 366

the problem of, one of four at present not to be completely solved, 366, 367

observations from many sources aiming to throw light on the existence of moral evil, 367, 368

man's, as suggested from without, perhaps the mitigating circumstance that allows of his redemption, 462

in what sense a nature?, 518

effect of first, not a weakening but a perversion of human nature, 521

the first did more than despoil man of a special gift of grace, 521

or man's state of apostasy, 533-664

its nature, 549-573

defined, 549

Old and New School views regarding, their difference and approximation, 549, 550

as a state, some psychological notes explanatory of, 550, 551

as a state is counteracted by an immanent divine power which leads towards salvation, 551

“total depravity” as descriptive of, an out-grown phrase, 552

as act of transgression and disposition or state, proved from Scripture, 552-554

the words which describe, applicable to dispositions and states, 552

N. T. descriptions of, give prominence to states and dispositions, 552, 553

and moral evil in the thoughts, affections, and heart, 553

is name given to a state which originated wrong desires, 553

is represented as existing in soul prior to consciousness of it, 553

a permanent power or reigning principle, 553

Mosaic sacrifices for sins other than mere act, 554

universally attributed to disposition or state, 554

attributed to outward act only when such act is symptomatic of inward state, 554

if it tend from act to a state, regarded as correspondingly blameworthy, 554

in an individual condemned though it cannot be traced back to a conscious originating act, 554, 555

when it becomes fixed and dominant moral corruption, meets special disapprobation, 555

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regarded by the Christian as a manifestation of subconscious depravity of nature, 555

repented of, principally as depravity of nature, 555

rather than “sins” repented of by Christians advanced in spiritual culture; a conspectus of quotations to prove this, 555-557

its definition as 'the voluntary transgression of known law' discussed, 557-559

is not always a distinct and conscious volition, 557

intention aggravates, but is not essential to, 558

knowledge aggravates, but is not essential to, 558

ability to fulfil the law, not essential to, 558

definition of, 558, 559

its essential principle, 559-573

is not sensuousness, 559-563

is not finiteness, 563-566

is selfishness, 567-573

is universal, 573-582

committed by every human being, arrived at maturity, 573

its universality set forth in Scripture, 573, 574

its universality proved from history, 574

its universality proved from Christian experience, 576

the outcome of a corrupt nature possessed by every human being, 577

is act or disposition referred to a corrupt nature, 577

rests on men who are called in Scripture 'children of wrath,', 578

its penalty, death, visits those who have never exercised personal or conscious choice, 579

its universality proved from reason, 579, 580

testimony of great thinkers regarding, 580-582

its origin in the personal act of Adam, 582-593

the origin of the sinful nature whence it comes is beyond the investigations of reason, 582

Scriptural account of its origin, 582-585

Adam's, its essential nature, 587

of Adam in resisting inworking God, 587

an immanent preference of the world, 587

not to be accounted for psychologically, 587

the external temptation to first sin a benevolent permission, 588

self-originated, Satanic, 588

the first temptation to, had no tendency to lead astray, 588

the first, though in itself small, a revelation of will thoroughly alienated from God, 590

consequences of original, as respects Adam, 590-593

physical death, a consequence of his first, 590, 591

spiritual death, a consequence of his first, 591, 592

exclusion from God's presence, a consequence of his first, 592

banishment from the Garden, a consequence of man's first, 593

the, of our first parents constituted their posterity sinners, 593

two insistent questions regarding the first, and the Scriptural answer, 593

imputation of, its true meaning, 594

original, its meaning, 594

man's relations to moral law extend beyond conscious and actual, 595

God's moral government recognizes race-sin, 595

actual, more guilty than original, 596

no man condemned for original, alone, 596, 664

the only ground of responsibility for race-sin, 596

original, its correlate, 596

imputation of Adam's, 597-637

see Imputation.

Pelagian theory of the imputation of, 597-601

Arminian theory of the imputation of, 601-606

New School theory of the imputation of, 606-612

Federal theory of the imputation of, 612-616

Mediate theory of the imputation of, 616-619

Augustinian theory of the imputation of, 619-637

table of theories of imputation of, 628

apart from, and prior to, consciousness, 629

conscience and Scripture attest that we are responsible for our unborn tendency to, 629

as our nature, rightly punishable with resulting sin, 632

reproductive, each reproduction increasing guilt and punishment, 633

each man guilty of personal, which expresses more than original depravity of nature, 633

is self-perpetuating, 633

is self-isolating, 634

the nature, and sins its expression, 635

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as Adam's, ruins, so Christ's obedience saves, 635

consequences of, to Adam's posterity, 637-664

depravity a consequence of Adam's, 637-640

in nature, as “total depravity,” considered, 637-640

total inability a consequence of Adam's, 640-644

guilt a consequence of Adam's, 644-652

penalty, a consequence of Adam's, 652-660

infants in a state of, 661

venial and mortal, 648

of nature and personal transgression, 648, 649

of ignorance and of knowledge, 649

of infirmity and of presumption, 649, 650

of incomplete and final obduracy, 650-652

unto death, considered, 650-652

against Holy Spirit, why unpardonable, 651, 652

penalty of, considered, 652-660

infants in a state of, 661

Christ free from hereditary and actual, 676-678

Christ responsible for human, 759

Christ responsible for Adam's, 759

Christ as great Penitent confesses race-sin, 760

Christ, how made to be, 760-763

a pretermission of, justified in cross, 772

does not condemn, but the failure to ask pardon for it, 856

judged and condemned on Calvary, 860

future, the virtual pardon of, 867

“dwelling,” and “reigning,”, 869, 870

expelled by bringing in Christ, 873

does not most sympathize with sin, 1028

hinders intercourse with other worlds, 1033

“eternal,”, 1033

made the means of displaying God's glory, 1038

chosen in spite of infinite motives to the contrary, 1040

Sinner, the incorrigible, glorifies God in his destruction, 442

negatively described, 637, 638

positively described, 639

what he can do, 640

what he cannot do, 640

under conviction, more of a sinner than before, 827

has no right to do anything before accepting Christ, 868

“Six hundred sixty-six,”, 570

“Slope, the,”, 580

Society, atomistic theory of, 623

Society, bellum omnium contra omnes (Hobbes), 461

Socinianism, 47, 328, 329, 524, 558, 597, 728-733

Solidarity, 624

Sola fides justificat, sed fides non est sola, 758

“Son,” its import in Trinity, 334

Son, the, a perfect object of will, knowledge and love to God, 275, 388

his eternal generation, 341

uncreate, 341

his essence not derived from essence of the Father, 341

his existence eternal, 341

exists by internal necessity of Divine nature, 342

eternal generation of, a life movement of the Divine nature, 342

in person subordinate to person of Father, 342

in essence equal with Father, 342

Son of man, cannotes, among other things, a veritable humanity, 673

Song of Solomon, 233, 238

Sonship of Christ, eternal, 340

metaphysical, 340

authors on, 343

Sorrow for sin, 832, 833

Soteriology, 665-894

Soul, what?, 92

dichotomous view of, 483

trichotomous view of, 484

distinguished from spirit, 484

its origin, 488

its pre-existence, according to poets, 489

creatian theory of, 491

not something added from without, 492

introduced into body, sicut vinum in vase acetoso, 493

metaphysical generation of, 493

traducian theory of, 494-497

history of theory, 493, 494

observations favorable to, 494-497

image of God, proprie, 528

always active, though not always conscious, 550

may influence another soul apart from physical intermediaries, 820

not inaccessible to God's direct operation, 820

as uncompounded cannot die, 984

see Immortality.

“Sovereign, the,” a title of Messiah, 321

Space, 278, 279

Space and time, 85, 275

Space “in God,”, 279

Species, 392, 480-482, 494

Spirit, the Holy, his teaching, a necessity, 27

hides himself, 213

recognized as God, 315

divine characteristics and prerogatives ascribed to, 316

associated with God, 316

his deity supported by Christian experience, 316

his deity, a doctrine of the church, 316

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the Holy, his deity not disproved by O. T. limitations, 317

his deity, authors on, 317

is a person, 323

designations of personality given to him, 323

“the mother-principle” in the Godhead, 323

so mentioned with other persons as to imply personality, 323, 324

performs acts of personality, 324

affected by acts of others, 324

possesses an emotional nature, 325

visibly appears as distinct from, yet connected with Father and Son, 325

ascription to him, of personal subsistence, 325

import of his presence in Trinity, 334

the centripetal movement of Deity, 336

and Christ, differences in their work, 338-340

his nature and work, authors on, 340

his eternal procession, 340-343

if not God, God could not be appropriated, 349

a work of completing belongs to, 313

applies Scriptural truth to present circumstances, 440

directs the God-man in his humiliation, 696

his intercession, 774, 775

his intermediacy, 793

witness of, what?, 844, 845

doctrine of “sealing” distinguished from mysticism, 845

in believer, substitutes old excitements, 872

“Spirit” and “soul,”, 843

Spirit, how applied to Christ, 333

Spirits, evil, tempt, 455

control natural phenomena, 455

execute God's plans, 457

not independent of human will, 457, 458

restrained by permissive will of God, 458

exist and act on sufferance, 459

their existence not inconsistent with benevolence of God, 461

are organized, 461

the doctrine of, not immoral, 461, 462

doctrine of, not degrading, 462

their nature and actions illustrate the evil of sin, 463

knowledge of their existence inspires a salutary fear, 463

sense of their power drives to Christ, 463

contrasting their unsaved state with our spiritual advantages causes us to magnify grace of God, 463

“Spirits in prison,”, 707, 708

Spiritual body, 1016, 1017

Spiritualism, 32, 132

Spontaneous generation, 389

Stoicism, 184

Style, 223

Sublapsarianism, 777

Subordinationism, 342

Substance, known, 5

its characteristics, 6

a direct knowledge of it as underlying phenomena, 97

Substances, the theory of two eternal, 378-383

See Dualism.

Substantia una et unica, 86

Suffering, in itself not reformatory, 104

Suggestion, 453, 454

“Sunday,” used by Justin Martyr, 148

Supererogation, works of, 522

Supper, the Lord's, a historical monument, 157

its ritual and import, 959

instituted by Christ, 959, 960

its mode of administration, 960-962

its elements, 960

its communion of both kinds, 960

is of a festal nature, 960, 961

commemorative, 961

celebrated by assembled church, 961

responsibility of its proper observance rests with pastor as representative of church, 962

its frequency discretional, 962

it symbolizes personal appropriation of the benefits of Christ's death, 963

it symbolizes union with Christ, 963

it symbolizes dependence on Christ, 963

it symbolizes a reproduction of death and resurrection in believer, 963

it symbolizes union in Christ, 963

it symbolizes the coming joy and perfection of the kingdom of God, 963

its connection with baptism, 964

is to be often repeated, 964

implies a previous state of grace, 964

the blessing conveyed in communion depends on communicant, 964

expresses fellowship of believer, 964

the Romanist view of, 965-968

the Lutheran and High Church view of, 968, 969

there are prerequisites, 969, 970

prerequisites laid down by Christ, 970

regeneration, a prerequisite to, 971

baptism, a prerequisite to, 971-973

church membership, a prerequisite to, 973

an orderly walk, a prerequisite to, 973-975

the local church the judge as to the fulfilment of these prerequisites, 975-977

special objections to open communion presented, 977-980

Supralapsarianism, 777

Symbol, derivation and meaning, 42

less than thing symbolized, 1035

Symbolism, period of, 45

Symbolum Quicumque, 329

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Synagogue, 902

Synergism, 816

Synoptic gospels, date, 150

“Synthetic idealization of our existence,”, 568

Synthetic method in theology, 50

System of theology, a dissected map, some parts of which already put together, 15

Systematic theologian, the first, 44

Systematic truth influences character, 16

Tabula rasa theory, of Locke, 35

Talmud shows what the unaided genius for religion could produce, 115

Tapeinoticon genus, 686

“Teaching, the, of the Twelve Apostles,”, 159, 937, 953

Teleological argument for the existence of God, 75-80

statement of argument, 75

called also “physico-theological,”, 75

divided by some into eutaxiology and teleology proper, 75

the major premise is a primitive and immovable conviction, 75

the minor premise, a working principle of science, 77

it does not prove a personal God, 78, 79

it does not prove unity, eternity, or infinity of God, 79, 80

adds intelligence and volition to the causative power already proved to exist, 80

Telepathy, 1021

Temptation, prevented by God's providence, 423

does not pervert, but confirms, the holy soul, 588, 589

Adam's, Scriptural account of, 582, 583

Adam's, its course and result, 584, 585

Adam's, contrasted with Christ's, 677, 678

Christ's, as possible as that of Adam, 677

aided by limitations of his human intelligence, 677

aided by his susceptibility to all forms of innocent gratification, 677

in wilderness, addressed to desire, 677

in Gethsemane, to fear, 677

Ueberglaube, Aberglaube, Unglaube, appealed to, 677

is always “without sin,”, 677

authors upon, 678

by Satan, negative and positive, 455

Tempter's promise, the, 572

Tendency-theory of Baur, 157-160

Tendency, undeveloped, 847

Terminology, a, needed in progress of a science, 35

Testament New, genuineness of, 146-165

rationalistic theories to explain origin of its gospels, 155-165

its moral system, 177-186

its morality contrasted with that of heathenism, 179-186

Testament, Old, in what sense its works are genuine, 162

how proved, 165-175

alleged errors in quoting or interpreting, 234, 235

Testimony, science assumes faith in, 3

amount of, necessary to prove miracle, 127, 128

in general, 142-144

statements in, may conflict without being false, 227

Tests, does God submit to?, 437

Theologian, characteristics of, 38-41

Theological Encyclopædia, 42

Theology, its definition, 1, 2

its aim, 2

its possibility, 2-15

its necessity, 15-19

its relation to religion, 19-24

rests on God's self-revelation, 25

rests on his revelation in nature, 26

natural and Scriptural, how related, 26-29

rests on Scripture and reason, 29

rationalism hurtful to, 30-31

rests on Scripture and a true mysticism, 31

avoids a false mysticism, 32

accepts history of doctrine as ancillary, 33

declines the combination, Scripture and Romanism, 33, 34

its limitations, 34-36

a perfect system of, impossible, 36, 37

is progressive, 37

its method, 38-51

requisites to its study, 38-41

see Theologian.

divisions of, 41-44

Biblical, 41

historical, 41

systematic, 41, 42

practical, 42-44

Theology, Systematic, its history, 44

in Eastern church, 44

in Western Church, 44-46

its period of scholasticism, 44, 45

its period of symbolism, 45, 46

its period of criticism and speculation, 46

a list of authorities in, differing from Protestantism, 47

British theology, 47, 48

Baptist theologians, 47

Puritan theologians, 47, 48

Scotch Presbyterian theologians, 48

Methodist theologians, 48

Quaker theologians, 48

English Church theologians, 48

American theology, 48, 49

the Reformed system, 48, 49

the older Calvinism, 49

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order in which its subjects may be treated, 49, 50

analytic method in, 49, 50

synthetic method in, 50

text-books in, 50, 51

Theonomy, 83

Theophany, Christ not a mere, 686

“Things,”, 95, 96, 254

Thought, does not go on in the brain, 93

possible without language, 216

intermittent or continuous?, 1002

Three thousand baptized in one day in time of Chrysostom, 934

Thucydides never mentions Socrates, 144

Time, its definition, 276

God not under law of, 276

has objective reality to God, 276

his “one eternal now,” how to be understood, 277

can the human spirit escape the conditions of, 278

authors on “time” and “eternity,”, 278

Torments of wicked, outward, subordinate results and accompaniments of state of soul, 1034

Tradition, and idea of God, 63

cannot long be trusted to give correct evidence, 142

of a “golden age” and matters cognate, 480, 526

Traducianism, its advocates and teaching, 493, 494

best accords with Scripture, 494, 495

favored by analogy of vegetable and animal life, 496

heredities, mental, spiritual, and moral, prove men's souls of human ancestry, 496

does not exclude divine concurrence in the development of the human species, 496

Fathers, who held, 620

Trafalgar, omitted in Napoleon's dispatches, 143

Transcendence, divine, denied by pantheism, 100

taught in Scripture, 102

deism, an exaggeration of, 414

Transgression, a stab at heart of God, 541

not proper translation of 1 John 3:4, 452

its universality directly taught in Scripture, 573

its universality proved in universal need of atonement, regeneration, and repentance, 573

its universality shown in condemnation that rests on all who do not accept Christ, 574

its universality, consistent with passages which ascribe a sort of goodness to some men, 574

its universality proved by history, and individual experience and observation, 574, 575

proved from Christian experience, 576

uniformity of actual transgression, a proof that will is impotent, 611

all moral consequences flowing from, are sanctions of law, 637

Transubstantiation, what?, 965

rests on a false interpretation of Scripture, 965

contradicts the senses, 966

denies completeness of sacrifice of Calvary, 967

externalizes and destroys Christianity, 967, 968

Trees of “life” and “knowledge,”, 526, 527, 583

Trichotomous theory of man's nature, 484-487

Trimurti, Brahman Trinity, 351

Trinitas dualitatem ad unitatem reducit, 338

Trinitatem, I ad Jordanem et videbis, 325

Trinities, heathen, 351

Trinity, renders possible an eternal divine self-contemplation, 262

the immanent love of God understood only in light of, 265

the immanent holiness of God rendered intelligible by doctrine of, 274

has close relations to doctrine of immanent attributes, 275, 336

doctrine of the, 304-352

a truth of revelation only, 304

intimated in O. T., made known in N. T., 304

six main statements concerning, 304

the term ascribed to Tertullian, 304

a designation of four facts, 304

held implicitly, or in solution, by the apostles, 304

took shape in the Athanasian Creed (8th or 9th century), 305

usually connected with “semi-trinitarian” Nicene Creed (325 A. D.), 305

references on doctrine of, 305

implies the recognition in Scripture of three as God, 305-322

presents proofs from N. T., 305-317

presents Father as recognized as God, 305

presents Jesus Christ as recognized as God, 305-315

appeals to Christian experience as confirming the deity of Christ, 313, 314

explains certain passages apparently inconsistent with Christ's deity, 314, 315

allows an order of office and operation consistent with essential oneness and equality, 314, 342

doctrine of, how its construction started, 314

presents the Holy Spirit recognized as God, 315-317

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intimations of, in the O. T., 317-322

seemingly alluded to in passages which teach a plurality of some sort in the Godhead, 317-319

seemingly alluded to in passages relating to the Angel of Jehovah, 319

seemingly alluded to in descriptions of Divine Wisdom and Word, 320, 321

owes nothing to foreign sources, 320

seemingly alluded to in descriptions of the Messiah, 321-322

O. T. contains germ of doctrine of, 322

its clear revelation, why delayed?, 322

insists that the three recognized as God are presented in Scripture as distinct persons, 322-326

asserts that this tripersonality of the divine nature is immanent and eternal, 326

it alleges Scriptural proof that the distinctions of personality are eternal, 326

the Sabellian heresy regarding, 327-328

the Arian heresy regarding, 328-330

teaches a tripersonality which is not tritheism, for while the persons are three, the essence is one, 330

how the term “person” is used in, 330, 331

the oneness of essence explained, 331-334

teaches an association which is more than partnership, 331

presents itself as the organism of the deity, 331

permits intercommunion and mutual immanency of persons, 332, 333

teaches equality of the three persons, 334-343

teaches that the titles belong to the persons, 334, 335

employs the personal titles in a qualified sense, 335-340

presents to us life-movement in the Godhead, 336-338

teaches a “generation” that is consistent with equality, 340

teaches a “procession” that is consistent with equality, 340

is inscrutable, 344

all analogies inadequate to represent it, 344

illustrations of, their only use, 345

not self-contradictory, 345

presents faculty and function at highest differentiation, 346

its relations to other doctrines, 347

its acceptance essential to any proper theism, 347

its denial leads to pantheism, 347

essential to any proper revelation, 349

evidence of, in prayer, 349

essential to any proper redemption, 350

effects of its denial on religious life, 350, 351

essential to any proper model for human life, 351

sets law of love before us as eternal, 351

shows divine pattern of receptive life, 351

authors on the doctrine, 351

Trisagion, the, 318

Tritheism, inconsistent with idea of God, 330

Trivialities in Scripture, their use, 217

Truth, God's, what?, 260

immanent, 260

a matter of being, 261

foundation of truth among men, 261

the principle and guarantee of all revelation, 262

not of God's will, but of his being, 262

God's transitive, 288-290

see Veracity and Faithfulness.

attributed to Christ, 309

attributed to the Holy Spirit, 316

as the efficient cause of regeneration, 817-820

hated by sinner, 817

neither known nor obeyed without a change of the affections, 818

even God cannot make it more true, 819

without God, an abstraction, not a power, 819

Ubi caritas, ibi claritas, 520

Ubi Spiritus, ibi Christus, 333

Ubi tres medici, ibi duo athei, 39

Ubiquity of Christ's human body, 709

relation to Lord's Supper, 968

relation to views of heaven, 1032

Ueberglaube, Aberglaube, Unglaube, the chief avenues of temptation, 677

Uhlhorn, on the “if's” of Tacitus, 989

Ullmann, on the derivation of sapientia, 4

Una navis est jam bonorum omnium, 881

Uncaused cause, the idea of, not from logical inference, but intuitive belief, 74

Unconditioned being, the presupposition of our knowing, 58

Unconscious mental action, 551, 555

Unconscious substance cannot produce self-conscious and free beings, 102

Understanding, the servant of the will, 460

Unicus, as applied to the divine nature, 259

Uniformity of nature, a presumption against miracles, 124

not absolute and universal, 124

could only be asserted on the ground of absolute and universal knowledge, 124

disproved by geology, 124

breaks in, illustrated, 125

final cause is beneath, 125

of volitional action rests on character, 509

of evil choice, implies tendency or determination, 611

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of transgression, a demonstration of impotence of will, 611

Unio personalis, 689, 690

Union of the two natures in the one person of Christ, 683-700

moral, between different souls, 799

with Christ, believer's, and man's with Adam, compared, 627

with Christ, believer's, wholly due to God, 781

its relation to regeneration and conversion, 793

doctrine of, 795-808

reasons for its neglect, 795

Scripture representations of, 795-798

represented by building and foundation, 795

represented by marriage union, 795, 796

represented by vine and branch, 796

consistent with individuality, 796

represented by head and members, 796

represented by union of race with Adam, 797

believer is in Christ, 797

Christ is in believer, 797

Father and Son dwell in believer, 797

believer has life by Christ as Christ has life by union with the Father, 797

believers are one through, 797

believers made partakers of divine nature through, 798

by it believer made one spirit with the Lord, 798

nature of, 798-802

not a merely natural union, 799

not a merely moral union, 799

not a union of essence, 799, 800

in it believer most conscious of his personality and power, 800

not mediated by sacraments, 800

an organic union, 800

a vital union, 801

a spiritual union, 801

originated and sustained by Holy Spirit, 801

by virtue of omnipresence the whole Christ with each believer, 281, 704, 801

inscrutable, 801

in what sense mystical, 801

authors on, 802

consequences of, to believer, 802-809

removes the internal obstacle to man's return to God, in the case of his people, 802

involves change in the dominant affection of the soul (Regeneration), 804

is the true “transfusion of blood,”, 804

involves a new exercise of soul's powers in Repentance and Faith (Conversion), 804

this phase of, illustrated by the depuration of Chicago River, 804, 805

with Christ gives to believer legal standing and rights of Christ (Justification), 805

secures to the believer the transforming, assimilating power of Christ's life, for soul and body (Sanctification and Perseverance), 805

does it secure physical miracles in deliverance from fleshly besetments of those who experience it?, 806

brings about a fellowship with Christ, and thus a fellowship of believers with one another here and hereafter (Ecclesiology and Eschatology), 806

secures among Christians the unity not of external organization, but of a common life, 807

gives assurance of salvation, 808

excerpts upon, from noted names in theology, 808

references upon, 808, 809

Unique, the, 244

Unitarianism, derivation of term, 330

its founders, 47

their relation to Arianism, 329

tends to pantheism, 347

fosters lax views of sin, 350

holds to Pelagian views of sin, 597

holds to Socinian views of atonement, 728, 729

Unity of Scripture, 175

Unity of God, 259, 304

consistent with a trinity, 259

Unity of human race, taught in Scripture, 476

lies at foundation of Pauline doctrine of sin and salvation, 476

ground of obligation of brotherhood among men, 476

various arguments for, 477-483

opposed by theorists who propound different centres of creation, 481

opposed on the ground that the physical diversities in the race are inconsistent with a common origin, 481, 482

Universalia, ante and post rem, and in re, 621

Universalism, its error, 1047

Universality of transgression, 573-577

Universals, 621

Universe, regarded as thought, must have had an absolute thinker, 60

its substance cannot be shown to have had a beginning, 73

has its phenomena had a cause within itself (pantheism)?, 73

mind in it, leads us to infer mind in maker, 73

if eternal, yet, as contingent and relative, it only requires an eternal creator, 74

since its infinity cannot be proved, why infer from its perhaps limited existence an infinite creator?, 74

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its order and useful collocation may be due to an impersonal intelligence (pantheism), 77

its present harmony proves a will and intelligence equal to its contrivance, 80

facts of, erroneous explanations of, 90-105

not necessary to divine blessedness, 265

“God's ceaseless conversation with his creatures,”, 436

exists for moral and spiritual ends, 436

a harp in which one string, our world, is out of tune, 451, 1033

Unus, as applied to divine nature, 259

Utopia, More's, an adumbration of St. John's City of God, 1031

Vacuum, 279

Vanity, what?, 569

Variation, law of, 470, 491, 492

Variations, are in the divine operation, not in the divine plan, 258

Vedas, 56, 203, 222, 225

Veracity and faithfulness of God, the, his transitive truth, 288, 289

by virtue of, his revelations consist with his being and with each other, 288

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