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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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