Part 8 — Index Of Subjects.

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Ability, gracious, 602, 640

natural, of New School, 640, 641

not test of sin, 558

Pelagian, 640

Abiogenesis, 389

Absolute, its denotation, 9

as applied to divine attributes, 249

how related to finite, 58, 255

Reason, an, the postulate of logical thought, 60

Abydos, triad of, 351

Acceptilatio, the Grotian, 740

Acquittal of believing sinners, from punishment, 854

Action, divine, not in distantia, 418

Acts, evil, God's concurrence with, 418

Ad aperturam libri, 32

Adam, his original righteousness not immutable, 519

had power of contrary choice, 519

not created undecided, 519

his love, God-given, 519

his exercise of holy will not meritorious, 520

unfallen, according to Romish theologians, 520

his physical perfection, 523

unfallen, according to Fathers and Scholastics, 523

his relations to lower creation, 524

his relations to God, 524

his surroundings and society, 525

the test of his virtue, 526

physical immortality possible to, 527

his Fall, see Fall.

his twofold death, resulting from Fall, 590

his communion with God interrupted, 592

his banishment from God, 593

imputation of his sin to his posterity, see Imputation.

in him “the natural,” had he continued upright, might without death have obtained “the spiritual,” 658

was Christ in, 759

Christ, the Last, 678

Christ, the Second, 680

Adoption, what?, 857

Aequale temperamentum, 523

Affections, 362, 815

holy, authors on, 826

Agency, free, and divine decrees, 359-362

Alexander, unifier of Greek East, 668

Allegorical arrangement in theology, 50

Allœosis, 686

Altruism, 299

Ambition, what? 569

American theology, 48, 49

Anacoloutha, Paul's, 210

Analytical method, in theology, 45, 49

Ancestry of race, proofs of a common, 476-482

“Angel of the church,” 452, 916

“Angel of Jehovah,” 319

Angelology of Scripture, not derived from Egyptian or Persian sources, 448

“Angels' food,” 445

Angels, their class defined, 443

Scholastic subtleties regarding, their influence, 443, 444

Milton and Dante upon, 443

their existence a scientific possibility, 444

faith in, enlarges conception of universe, 444

list of authors upon, 444

Scriptural statements and intimations concerning, 441-459

are created beings, 444

are incorporeal, 445

are personal, 445

possessed of superhuman intelligence, 445

distinct from and older than man, 445

not personifications, 445

numerous, 447

are a company, not a race, 447

were created holy, 450

had a probation, 450

some preserved their integrity, 450

some fell from innocence, 450

the good, confirmed in goodness, 450

the evil, confirmed in evil, 450

Angels, good, they stand worshiping God, 451

they rejoice in God's works, 451

they work in nature, 451

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they guide nations, 451

watch over interests of churches, 452

assist individual believers, 452

punish God's enemies, 452

ministers of God's special providences, 452

act within laws of spiritual and moral world, 453

their influence illustrated by psychic phenomena, 453, 454

Angels, evil, oppose God, 454

hinder man's welfare, 455

tempt negatively and positively, 455

their intercourse with Christ, 456

execute God's will, 457

their power not independent of human will, 457

limited by permissive will of God, 458

the doctrine of, not opposed to science, 459

not opposed to right views of space or spirit, 459

not impossible that, though wise, they should rebel, 460

the continuance and punishment of evil, not inconsistent with divine benevolence, 461

their organization, though sinful, not impossible, 461

the doctrine of evil, not hurtful, 461, 462

the doctrine of evil, does not degrade man, 462

good, the doctrine of, its uses, 462

evil, the doctrine of, its uses, 463

fallen, if no redemption provided for, why? 463

created in Christ, 464

their salvation, Scripture silent upon, 464

Anger, sometimes a duty, 294

Annihilation, of infants, held by Emmons, 609

at death, inequitable, 987, 1036

disproved by Scripture, 991-998

terms which seemingly teach, 993

language adduced to prove, often metaphorical, 994

old view of, 1036

the theory that it is a result of the weakening of powers of soul by sin, considered, 1036

“second death” regarded as dissolution of the soul, 1036

the theory that a positive punishment proportioned to guilt precedes and ends in, 1037

the tenet of, rests on a defective view of holiness, 1037

a part of the “conditional immortality” hypothesis, 1037

as connected with the principle, “Evil is punished by its own increase,” 1038

Annihilationists, 487

“Answer (Interrogation) of a good conscience,” phrase examined, 821

Anthropological argument for God's existence, 80-85

Anthropological method in theology, 50

Anthropology, a division of theology, 464

Anthropomorphism, 122, 250

“Anthropomorphism inverse,” 468

Antichrist, 1009

“Anticipative consequences,” 403, 658

Antinomianism, 875

Antiquity of race, relation of Scripture to, 224-226

Apocalypse, its exegetic not yet found, 1014

Apocrypha, 115, 150, 865

Apollinarianism, 487, 670, 671

Apostasy, man's state of, 533-664

Apostasy of the believer, how treated in Scripture, 884-886

A posteriori reasoning, 66, 86

Apostles, 199-201, 909, 971

Apotelesmaticum genus, 686

A priori argument for God's existence, the, see God.

judgments, 10

reasons for expecting a divine revelation, 111-114

Arbitrium, 557

Argument ad hominem in Scripture, 233

for existence of God, its value, 65-67, 71, 72, 87-89

Arianism, 328-330, 670

Arminianism, 362, 601-606

Arrangement of material in theology, 2, 49, 50

Art, 529, 1016

Aryan and Semitic languages, their connection, 479

Ascension, Christ's, 708-710

Christ's humanity, how related to the Logos in, 709

Aseity of God, 256, 257

not confined to Father, 342

Assensus, an element in faith, 837

Assurance of salvation, 808, 845

“Asymptote of God,” man, the, 565

Athanasian Creed, 329

Atoms, 96, 374

Atomism, 600, 635

Atonement, facts in Christ's sufferings which prove, 713

defined, 713

satisfies holiness, the fundamental attribute of God, 713

meets the conditions of a universe in which happiness is connected with righteousness and suffering with sin, 714

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in it Christ as Logos, the Revealer of God in the universe, inflicts the penalty of sin, while, as Life of humanity, he endures the infliction, 714

humanity has made, when righteousness in Christ, as generic humanity, condemns sin, and love in Christ endures the penalty, 714

substitutionary and sharing, 715

in, Christ suffers as the very life of man, 715

not made, but revealed, by Christ's historical sufferings, 715

the sacrifice of, the final revelation of the heart of God and of the law of universal life, 716

a model of, and stimulus to, self-sacrifice, 716

its subjective effects must not exclude consideration of its ground and cause, 716

Scripture methods of representing, 716-722

originates in God's love and manifests it, 716

an example of disinterested love to secure our deliverance from selfishness, 716, 717

a ransom in which death is the price paid, 717

an act of obedience to law, 717

an act of priestly mediation, 718-728

a sin-offering, 719

a propitiation, 719

a substitution, 720

correct views of, grounded on proper interpretation of the institution of sacrifice, 721

is it to be interpreted according to notions derived from Jewish or heathen sacrifices? 728

theories of, 728-766

Socinian (example) theory, 728, 729

objections to above, 735-740

Bushnellian (moral influence) theory, 733-735

objections to above, 735-740

Grotian (governmental) theory of, 740, 741

Irvingian (gradually extirpated depravity) theory of, 744, 745

objections to theory, 745-747

Anselmic (commercial) theory of, 747, 748

Military theory of, 747

objections to, 748-750

Criminal theory of, 748

the Ethical theory of, 750-771

a true theory of, resolves two problems, 750, 751

grounded in holiness of God, 751

a satisfaction of an ethical demand of the divine nature, 751, 752, 753

substitution in, an operation of grace, 752

the righteousness of law maintained in, 752

maintains, as a first subordinate result, the interests of the divine government, 753

provides, as a second subordinate result, for the needs of human nature, 753

the classical passage with reference to, 753

sets forth Christ as so related to humanity that he is under obligation to pay and does pay, 754

explains how the innocent can suffer for the guilty in, 755, 756, 757

Andover theory of, 756

by one whose nature was purified, but his obligation to suffer undiminished, 757

the guilt resting on Christ in, what it was, 645, 646, 757

as a member of the race, did he not suffer in, for his own sin?, 758

showed what had been in the heart of God from eternity, 758

explanations of Christ's identification with humanity as a reason why he made, 759-761

exposition of 2 Cor. 5:21, 760

grounded in the holiness and love of God, 761

is accomplished through the solidarity of the race, and Christ the common life, bearing guilt for men, 761

ground of, on the part of man, 761

rather revealed than made by incarnate Christ, 762, 763

Ethical theory of, philosophically correct, 764

combines the valuable elements of other theories, 764

shows most satisfactorily how demands of holiness are met, 764

presents only explanation of sacrificial rites and language, 765

alone gives proper place to death of Christ, 765

is best explanation of sufferings of Christ, 765

satisfies most completely the ethical demand of human nature, 765, 766

objected to, as inconsistent with God's omnipotence or love, 766

objected to, as presented ideas mutually exclusive, 767

objected to, as obviating real propitiation, 768

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objected to, as an act of injustice, 768

objected to, because transfer of punishment is impossible, 768, 769

objected to, because the remorse implied in it, was impossible to Christ, 769

objected to, because sufferings finite in time cannot satisfy infinite demands of law, 769, 770

objected to, that it renders Christ's active obedience superfluous, 770

objected to, as immoral in tendency, 770

objected to, as requiring faith to complete a satisfaction which ought to be itself perfect, 771

extent of, 771-773

unlimited, 771

its application limited, 771

passages asserting its special efficacy, 771

passages asserting its sufficiency for all, 771

secures for all men delay in execution of sentence against sin, 772

has made objective provision for all, 772, 773

has procured for all incentives to repentance, 773

limited, advocates of, 773

universal, advocates of, 773

Attributes, divine, see God.

mental, higher than those of matter, inference from, 92

Aurignac Cave, its evidence doubtful, 532

Australian languages, their affinities, 479

Automatic, mental activity largely, 550

“Automatic excellence or badness,” 611

Avarice, defined, 569

Avatars, Hindu, 187

Christ's incarnation unlike, 698

Ayat of Koran, 213

Baalim, 318

Balaam, inspired, yet unholy, 207

Baptism and Lord's Supper, only accounted for as monuments, 157

the formula of, correlates Christ's name with God's, 312

according to Romish church, 522

of Jesus, its import, 761, 762, 942

Christian, definition of, 931

instituted by Christ, 931

of universal and perpetual obligation, 931

ignored by Salvation Army and Society of Friends, 931

John's recognized by Christ, 931, 932

John's, was it a modification of a previously existing rite?, 931, 932

proselyte, its existence discussed, 931, 932

John's, essentially Christian baptism, 732

made the law of the church, 932

Christian, complementally related to Lord's Supper, is of equal permanency, 932, 933

its mode, immersion, 933

meaning of its original word, according to Greek usage, 933, 934

meaning of original word as determined by contextual relation, 934

meaning of original word determined by voice used with 'water,', 935

meaning of original word determined by prepositional connections, 935

meaning of original word derived from circumstances, 935

original meaning of word determined from figurative allusions, 936

original meaning of word determined by practice of early church, 936

occasional change in its mode permitted for seeming sufficient reason at an early date, 936

original meaning of word determined by usage of Greek church, 937, 938

Dr. Dods' statement as to its mode, 938

concession to its original method of observance in the introduction of baptisteries or “fontgraves” into non Baptist places of worship, 938

the church, being only an executive body, cannot modify Christ's law concerning, 939

the law of, fundamental, and therefore unalterable save by Legislator himself, 939

any modification of, by church, implies unwisdom in Appointer of rite, 939

any change in mode vacates ordinance of its symbolic significance, 939

objections to its mode, immersion, 940

if its mode impracticable, ordinance not a duty, 940

when its mode dangerous, ordinance not to be performed, 940

the mode of baptism decently impressive, 940

the ordinance symbolizing suffering and death is consistently somewhat inconvenient, 940

God's blessing on an irregular administration of, no sanction of irregularity, 940

its symbolism, 940-945

what it symbolizes is general, 940

it symbolizes death and burial of Christ, 940

it symbolizes union with Christ, 941

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it symbolizes atonement and redemption, 941

it symbolizes to the believer being baptized his spiritual death and resurrection, 941

it symbolizes union of believers with each other, 942

it symbolizes the death and resurrection of the body, 942

the central truth, set forth by, 942

a correlative truth set forth by, 943

sets forth purification through communion with death of Christ, 944

symbolizes regenerating power of Jesus' death, 944

immersion in, alone symbolizes the passage from death unto life in regeneration and communion with Christ in his death and rising, 944

the substituting for the correct mode of, one which excludes all reference to Christ's death destroys the ordinance, 944

is a historical monument, 945

is a pictorial expression of doctrine, 945

and Lord's Supper, 945

subjects of, 945-959

the proper subjects of, 945

those only to be baptized who have first been made disciples, 945

those only to be baptized who have repented and believed, 945

those only to be baptized who can be members of the church, 945

those only to be baptized for whom the symbolism is valid, 946

not a means of regeneration, 946

the spiritual and the ritual so combined in, that the whole ordinance may be designated by its outward aspect, 946

as a being “born of water,” 946

connected with repentance “for the remission of sins,”, 946

without baptism, discipleship incomplete, and ineffective, 947

the teachings of Campbellism regarding, 947, 948

act of person baptized, 948

before it is administered, church should require evidence that candidates are regenerated, 949

incorrectly called “door into the church,”, 949

as expressive of inward character of candidate, 950

as regeneration is once for all, baptism must not be repeated, 950

as outward expression of inward change, is the first of all duties, 950

should follow regeneration with least possible delay, 950

if an actual profession of faith, not to be repeated, 950

accessories to, matters of individual judgment, 951

its formula, 951

Infant, 951-959

without warrant in scripture, 951

has no express command, 951

no clear example, 951

passages held to imply it, have no reference thereto, 951

expressly contradicted, 952

in it the prerequisites of faith and repentance impossible, 952

in it the symbolism of baptism has lost significance, 952

its practice inconsistent with constitution of the church, 952

is unharmonious with prerequisites to the Lord's Supper, 952

has led in Greek Church to infant communion, 953

denied by the Paulicians, 953

the reasons of its rise and spread, 953

a necessary concomitant of a State Church, 954

founded on unscriptural and dangerous reasonings, 954

it assumes power of church to tamper with Christ's commands, 954

contradicts New Testament ideas of church, 954

assumes a connection of parent and child closer and more influential than facts of Scripture and experience will support, 954, 955

its propriety urged on various unsettled grounds, 956

does it make its subjects members of the church?, 956

its evil effects, 957-959

forestalls any voluntary act, 957

induces superstitious confidence, 957

has led to baptism of irrational and material things, 957

has obscured and corrupted Christian truth, 958

is often an obstacle to evangelical views, 958

merges church in nation and world, 958

substitutes for Christ's command an invention of men, 958, 959

literature concerning, 959

Baptismal Regeneration, 820-822, 946, 947

literature upon, 948

Baptist Theology, 47

Baptists, English, 972, 977

Free Will, 972, 977, 979

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Believers, and the “old man,”, 870

and the Intermediate State, 998, 999

Bewusstsein, in Gottesbewusstsein, 63

Bible, see Scripture.

Bishop, office of, early made sole interpreter of apostles, 912

in his progress from primus inter pares to Christ's vicegerent, 912

ordaining, his qualifications in Episcopal church, 913

“presbyter” and “pastor” designate same order, 914, 915

the duties of, 916, 917

ordination of, 918-924

Blessedness, what?, 265

contrasted with glory, 265

Bodies, new, of saints, are confined to space, 1032

Body, image of God, mediately or significative, 523

honorable, 488

suggestions as to reason why given, 488

immortality of, sought by Egyptians, 995

not indispensable to activity and consciousness, 1000

spiritual, what it imports, 1016, 1021-1023

resurrection of, see Resurrection.

same, though changed annually, 1020

a “flowing organism,”, 1021

to regard it as a normal part of man's being, Scriptural and philosophical, 1021, 1022

“Bond servant of sin,” what?, 509, 510

Book may be called by name of chief author, 239

Book of Mormon, 141

of Enoch, 165

of Judges, 166, 171

of the Law, its finding, 167

Books of O. T. quoted by Jesus, 199

of N. T. received and used, in 2d century, 146

Brahma, 181

Brahmanism, 181

Bread, in Lord's Supper, its significance, 963

of life, 963

Brethren, Plymouth, 895, 896

Bride catching, not primeval, 528

“Brimstone and fire,” sin and conscience, 1049

Brute, conscious but not self conscious, 252, 467

cannot objectify self, 252, 467

is determined from without, 252, 468

none ever thought 'I,' 467

has not apperception, 467

has no concepts, 467

has no language, 467

forms no judgments, 467

does not associate ideas by similarity, 467

cannot reason, 467

has no general ideas, 468

has no conscience, 468

has no religious nature, 468

man came not from the, but through the, 467

Buddha, 181, 182, 183

Buddhism, its grain of truth, 181

a missionary religion, 181

its universalism, 181

its altruism, 181

its atheism, 182

its fatalism, 182

“Buncombe,” 17

Burial of food and weapons with the dead body, why practiced by some races, 532

Burnt offering, its significance, 726

Byzantine and Italian artists differ in their pictures of Jesus Christ, 678

Cæsar, writes in the third person, 151

unifier of the Latin West, 566

his words on passing the Rubicon, 1032

“Caged eagle theory” of man's life, 560

Caiaphas, inspired yet unholy, 207

Cain, 477

Calixtus, his analytic method in systematic theology, 45, 46

Call to ministry, 919

Calling, efficacious, 777, 782, 790, 791, 793, 794

general or external, 791

is general, sincere?, 791, 792

Calvinism, in history, 368

Calvinistic and Arminian views, their approximation, 362, 368

Cambridge Platform, 923

“Carnal mind,” its meaning, 562

Carthage, Council of (397), and Epistle to the Hebrews, 152

Synod of (412), and Pelagius, 597

Caste, what?, 181

and Buddhism, 181

and Christianity, 898

Casualism, 427, 428

Casuistry, non scriptural, 648

Catacombs, 191

Catechism, Roman, on originalis justitiæ donum additum, 522

Westminster Assembly's, on Infant Baptism, 957

Causality, its law, 73

does not require a first cause, 74

Cause and effect, simultaneity of, 793

Cause, equivalent to 'requisite,', 44

formal, 44

material, 44

efficient, 44

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final, 44

can an infinite, be inferred from a finite universe? 79

when the efficient, gives place to the final? 125

various definitions of, 814, 815

Causes, Aristotle's four, 44

an infinite series of, does not require a cause of itself, 74

Celsus, derides the same religion for many peoples, 192

Certainty not necessity, 362

Chalcedon (451) Symbol, on Mary as 'mother of God,' 671, 686

condemned Eutychianism, 672

promulgated orthodox doctrine as to the Person of Christ, 673

its formula negative with a single exception, 673

Chance as a name for ignorance, term allowable, 428

as implying absence of causal connection in phenomena, not allowable, 428

as undesigning cause, insufficient, 428

Change, orderly, requires intelligent cause, 75

Character, helped by systematic truth, 16

changed rather than expressed by some actions, 360

what it is, 506, 600

how a man may change, 507

extent of one's responsibility for, 605

sinning makes, 1041

sinful, renders certain continuance in sinful actions, 1041

dependent on habit, 1049

Chastisement, not punishment, 654, 766

Cherubim, 449, 593

Child, unborn, has promise and potency of spiritual manhood, 644

individuality of the, 492

visited for sins of fathers, 634

Chiliasts in all ages, 1007

Chinese, their religion a survival of patriarchial family worship, 180

their history, its commencement, 225

may have left primitive abodes while language still monosyllabic, 478

Choice, of an ultimate end, 504

of means, 504

decision in favor of one among several conflicting desires, 505, 506

not creation, our destiny, 508

New School idea of, 550

first moral, 611

evil, uniformity of, what it implies, 611

contrary, possessed by Adam, 519

not essential to will, 600

as at present possessed by man, 605

God's, see Election.

Christ, his person and character must be historical, 186

Christ, no source for conception of, other than himself, 187

conception of, could not originate in human genius, 187

acceptance of the story of, a proof of his existence, 187

some of the difficulties in which the assumption that the story of, is false, lands us, 188

if the story of, is true, Christianity is true, 188

his testimony to himself, its substance, 189

his testimony to himself, not that of an intentional deceiver, 189

his testimony to himself, not that of insanity or vanity, 189

if neither mentally nor morally unsound, his testimony concerning himself is true, 190

in his sympathy and sorrow reveals God's feeling, 266

the whole Christ present in each believer, 281

his supreme regard for God, 302

recognized as God in certain passages, 305-308

some passages once relied on to prove his divinity now given up for textual reasons, 308

Old Testament descriptions of God applied to him, 309

possesses attributes of God, 309

undelegated works of God are ascribed to him, 310

receives honor and worship due only to God, 311

his name associated on equality with that of God, 312

equality with God expressly claimed for him, 312

“si non Deus, non bonus,”, 313

proofs of his divinity in certain phrases applied to him, 313

his divinity corroborated by Christian experience, 313, 682

his divinity exhibited in hymns and prayers of church, 313

his divinity, passages which seem inconsistent with, how to be regarded, 314

as pre-incarnate Logos, Angel of Jehovah, 319

in pre-existent state, the Logos, 335

in pre-existent state, the Image of God, 335

in pre-existent state, the Effulgence of God, 335

the centrifugal action of Deity, 336

and Spirit, how their work differs, 338

his eternal Sonship, 340

if not God, cannot reveal him, 349

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orders of creation to be united in, 444

his human soul, 493

his character convinces of sin, 539

he is the ideal and the way to it, 544

not law, “the perfect Image” of God, 548

his holiness, in what it consisted, 572

in Gethsemane felt for the race, 635

with him believers have a connection of spiritual life, 636

human nature in, may have guilt without depravity, 645

educator of the race, 666

the Person of, 669-700

the doctrine of his Person stated, 669

a brief historical survey of the doctrine of his Person, 669

views of the Ebionites concerning, 669

reality of his body denied by Docetæ, 670

views of Arians concerning, 670

views of Apollinarians, 670, 671

views of Nestorians, 671, 672

views of Eutychians, 672

the two natures of, their integrity, 673

his humanity real, 673

is expressly called “a man,”, 673

his genealogies, 673

had the essential elements of human nature, 674

had the same powers and principles of normal humanity, 674

his elocution, 674

subject to the laws of human development, 675

in twelfth year seems to enter on consciousness of his divine Sonship, 675

suffered and died, 675

dies (Stroud) of a broken heart, 675

lived a life of faith and prayer, and study of Scripture, 675

the integrity of his humanity, 675-681

supernaturally conceived, 675

free from hereditary depravity and actual sin, 676

his ideal human nature, 678

his human nature finds its personality in union with the divine, 679

his human nature germinal, 680

the “Everlasting Father,” 680

the Vine man, 680

Docetic doctrine concerning, confuted, 681

possessed a knowledge of his own deity, 681

exercised divine prerogatives, 682

in him divine knowledge and power, 682

union of two natures in his one person, 683-700

possesses a perfect divine and human nature, 683, 684

proof of this union of natures in, 684

speaks of himself as a single person, 684

attributes of both his natures ascribed to one person, 684, 685

Scriptural representation of infinite value of atonement and union of race with God prove him divine, 685

Lutheran view as to communion of natures in, 686

four genera regarding the natures of Christ, 686

union of natures in, 686

theory of his incomplete humanity, 686

objections to this theory, 687, 688

theory of his gradual incarnation, 688, 689

objections to this view, 689-691

real nature of union of persons in, 691-700

importance of correct views of the person of, 691, 692

chief problems in the doctrine of the person of, 692

why the union of the natures in the person of Christ is inscrutable, 693

on what the possibility of the union of deity and humanity in his person is grounded, 693, 694

no double personality in, 694-696

union of natures in, its effect upon his humanity, 696, 697

union of natures in, its effect upon the divine, 697

this union of natures in the person of, necessary, 698

the union of natures in, eternal, 698, 699

the infinite and finite in, 699, 700

the two states of, 701-710

the nature of his humiliation, 701-706

not the union in him of Logos and human nature, 701

his humiliation did not consist in the surrender of the relative divine attributes, 701

objections to above view, 701-703

his humiliation consisted in the surrender of the independent exercise of the Divine attributes, 703

his humiliation consisted in the assumption by the pre-existent Logos of the servant-form, 703

his humiliation consisted in the submission of the Logos to the Holy Spirit, 703

his humiliation consisted in the surrender as to his human nature of all advantages accruing thereto from union with deity, 703, 704

the five stages of his humiliation, 704-706

his state of exaltation, 706-710

the nature of his exaltation, 706, 707

the stages of his exaltation, 707-710

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his quickening and resurrection, 707, 708

his ascension, 708-710

his offices, 710-776

his offices three, 710

his Prophetic work, 710-713

prophet, its meaning as applied to him, 710

three methods of fulfilling the prophet's office, 711

his preparatory work as Logos, 711

his ministry as incarnate, 711, 712

his ascended guidance and teaching of the church on earth, 712

his final revelation of the Father to the saints in glory, 712, 713

his Priestly office, 713-775

in what respects he was a priest, 713

his atoning work, see Atonement.

as immanent in the universe, see Logos.

bearer of our humanity, life of our race, 715

his sufferings not atonement but revelation of atonement, 715

his death a moral stimulus to men, 716

did he ever utter the words “give his life a ransom for many”?, 717

did not preach, but established the gospel, 721

a noble martyr, 729

his death the central truth of Christianity, 733, 764

his death set forth by Baptism and Lord's Supper, 733

the Great Penitent, 734, 737, 760

the Savior of all men, 739

refused “the wine mingled with myrrh,”, 742

never makes confession of sin, 746

a stumbling-block to modern speculation, 746

had not hereditary depravity but guilt, 747, 762

was he slain by himself or another?, 747

does he suffer intensively the infinite punishment of sin?, 747

his obedience, active and passive, needed in salvation, 749, 770

died for all, 750

incorporate with humanity, became our substitute, 750

how “lifted up,”, 751

mediator between the just God and the merciful God, 754

in his organic union with the race is the vital relation which makes his vicarious sufferings either possible or just, 754

as God immanent in humanity, is priest and victim, condemning and condemned, atoning and atoned, 755

created humanity, and as immanent God sustains it, while it sins, thus becoming responsible for its sin, 755, 769

as Logos smitten by guilt and punishment, 755

the “must be” of his sufferings, what?, 755

his race-responsibility not destroyed by incarnation, or purification in womb of Virgin, 756

his sufferings reveal the cross hidden in the divine love from foundation of the world, 756, 763

in womb of Virgin purged from depravity, guilt and penalty remaining, 757, 759

the central brain of our race through which all ideas must pass, 757

his guilt, what?, 757

innocent in personal, but not race relations, 758

his secular and church priesthood, 758

did he suffer only for his own share in sin of the race?, 758

his incarnation an expression of a prior union with race beginning at creation, 758

various explanations of his identification with race, 759

he longed to suffer, 759

he could not help suffering, 760

all nerves and sensibilities of race meet in him, 760

his place in 2 Cor. 5:21, 760, 761

when and how did he take guilt and penalty on himself, 761

import of his submission to John's baptism, 762

was he unjustified till his death?, 762

his guilt first purged on Cross, 762

as incarnate, revealed, rather than made, atonement, 762

the personally unmerited sufferings of, the mystery of atonement, 768

may have felt remorse as central conscience of humanity, 769

his sufferings, though temporal, met infinite demands of law, 769

paid a penalty equivalent, though not identical, 769, 770

how Savior of all men, 772

specially Savior of those who believe, 773

his priesthood, everlasting, 773

as Priest he is intercessor, see Intercession.

his Kingly office, 775

his kingship defined, 775

his kingdom of power, 775

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his kingdom of grace, 775, 776

the only instance of Fortwirkung after death, 776

his kingdom of glory, 776

his kingdom, the antidote to despair concerning church, 776

his kingship, two practical remarks upon, 776

union with, see Union.

ascended, communicates life to church, 806

heathen may receive salvation from Christ without knowing giver or how gift was purchased, 843

his sufferings secure acquittal from penalty of law, 858

his obedience secures reward of law, 858

union with, secures his life as dominant principle in soul, 860

his life in believer will infallibly extirpate all depravity, 860

“we in,” Justification, 862

“in us,” Sanctification, 862

his twofold work in the world, 869

a new object of attention to the believer, 873

union with, secures impartation of spirit of obedience, 875

his commands must not be modified by any church, 939

submitted to rites appointed for sinners, 943

God's judicial activity exercised through, 1027

qualified by his two natures to act as judge, 1027

his body confined to space, 1032

his soul not limited to space, 1032

Christianity, its triumph over paganism, the wonder of history, 191-193

its influence on civilization, 193, 194

its influence on individuals, 194, 195

submits to judgment by only test of a religion, not ideals, but performances, 195

and pantheism, 282

circumstances favorable to its propagation, 666

Japanese objection to its doctrine of brotherhood, 898

Christological method in theology, 50

Christology, 665-776

Chronology, schemes of, 224, 225

Church, its safety and aggressiveness dependent on sound doctrine, 18

its relation to truth, 33

polity and ordinances of, their purpose, 546

a prophetic institution, 712

doctrine of the, 887-980

constitution of the, or its Polity, 887-929

in its largest signification, 887

and kingdom, difference between, 887, 889

definition of, in Westminster Confession, 887

the universal, includes all believers, 888

universal, the body of Christ, 888

a transcendent element in, 888

union with Christ, the presupposition of, 888

the indwelling Christ, its elevating privilege, 888

the universal or invisible distinguished from the local or visible, 889

individual, defined, 890

the laws of Christ on which church gathered, 890

not a humanitarian organization, 890

the term employed in a loose sense, 891

significance of the term etymologically, 891

the secular use of its Greek form, 891

used as a generic or collective term, 891

the Greek term translated, its derivation, 891

applied by a figure of rhetoric to many churches, 891

the local, a divine appointment, 892

the Hebrew terms for, its larger and narrower use, 892

Christ took his idea of, from Hebrew not heathen sources, 892

exists for sake of the kingdom, 892

will be displaced by a Christian state, 893

the decline of, not to be deplored, 893

a voluntary society, 893

membership in, not hereditary or compulsory, 893

union with, logically follows union with Christ, 893

its doctrine, a necessary outgrowth of the doctrine of regeneration, 893

highest organism of human life, 894

is an organism such as the religion of spirit necessarily creates, 891

its organization may be informal, 894

its organization may be formal, 894

its organization in N. T. formal, 894

its developed organization indicated by change of names from Gospels to Epistles, 895

not an exclusively spiritual organization, 895

doctrine of Plymouth Brethren concerning, 895, 896

organization of the, not definitely prescribed in N. T. and left to expediency; an erroneous theory, 896

government of, five alleged forms in N. T., 897

regenerate persons only members of, 897

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Christ law giver of, 897

members on equality, 898

one member of, has no jurisdiction over another, 898

independent of civil power, 899

local, its sole object, 899

local, united worship a duty of, 899

its law, the will of Christ, 900

membership in, qualifications prescribed for, 900

membership in, duties attached to, 900

its genesis, 900

in germ before Pentecost, 900

three periods in life of, 901

officers elected as occasion demanded, 901

Paul's teaching concerning, progressive, 902

how far synagogue was model of, 902

a new, how constituted, 902

in formation of, a council not absolutely requisite, 902, 903

at Antioch, its independent career, 903

its government, 903-926

its government, as to source of authority, an absolute monarchy, 903

its government, as to interpretation and execution of Christ's law, an absolute democracy, 903

should be united in action, 904

union of, in action should be, not passive submission, but intelligent co-operation, 904

peaceful unity in, result of Spirit's work, 904

Baptist, law of majority rule in, 904

as a whole responsible for doctrinal and practical purity, 905

ordinances committed to custody of whole, 905

as a whole, elects its officers and delegates, 906

as a whole, exercises discipline, 907

the self government of, an educational influence, 908

pastor's duty to, 908

the world church or Romanist theory of, considered, 908-911

Peter as foundation of, what meant by the statement, 909-911

See also Peter.

the hierarchical government of, corrupting and dishonoring to Christ, 911

the theory of a national, considered, 912-914

Presbyterian system of the, authors upon, 912

independence of, when given up, 912

a spiritual, incapable of delimitation, 913

officers of the, 914-924

offices in, two, 914-916

a plurality of eldership in the primitive, occasional, 915, 916

the pastor, bishop or elder of the, his three fold duty, 916, 917

the deacon, his duties, 917, 918

did women in the early church discharge diaconal functions?, 918

ordination of officers in, 918-924

See Ordination.

local, highest ecclesiastical authority in N. T., 920

discipline of, 924-926

relation of, to sister churches, 926-929

each, the equal of any other, 926

each, directly responsible to Christ, and with spiritual possibilities equal to any other, 926

each, to maintain fraternity and co-operation with other churches, 926

each, should seek and take advice from other churches, 927

the fellowship of a, with another church may be broken by departures from Scriptural faith and practice, 928

independence of, qualified by interdependence, 928

what it ought to do if distressed by serious internal disagreements, 928

its independence requires largest co-operation with other churches, 929

list of authorities on general subject of the, 929

ordinances of the, 930-980

See Ordinances, Baptism, and Lord's Supper.

Circulatio, 333

Circumcision, of Christ, its import, 761

its law and that of baptism not the same, 954, 955

Circumincessio, 333

Civilization, can its arts be lost?, 529

Coffin, called by Egyptians 'chest of the living,', 995

Cogito ergo Deus est, 61

Cogito ergo sum = cogito scilicet sum, 55

Cogito = cogitans sum, 55

Cognition of finiteness, dependence, etc., the occasion of the direct cognition of the Infinite, Absolute, etc., 52

Coming, second, of Christ, 1003-1015

the doctrine of, stated, 1003

Scriptures describing, 1003, 1004

statements concerning, not all spiritual, 1004

outward and visible, 1004

the objects to be secured at, 1004

said to be “in like manner” to his ascension, 1004, 1005

analogous to his first, 1005

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can all men at one time see Christ at the?, 1005

the time of, not definitely taught, 1005

predictions of, parallel those of his first, 1007

patient waiting for, disciplinary, 1007

precursors of, 1008-1010

a general prevalence of Christianity, a precursor of, 1008

a deep and wide spread development of evil, a precursor of, 1008

a personal antichrist, a precursor of, 1008

four signs of, according to some, 1010

millennium, prior to, 1010, 1011

and millennium as pointed out in Rev. 20:4-10, 1011

immediately connected with a general resurrection and judgment, 1011

of two kinds, 1014

a reconciliation of pre-millenarian and post-millenarian theories suggested, 1014

is the preaching which is to precede, to nations as wholes, or to each individual in a nation?, 1014

the destiny of those living at, 1015

Comings of Christ, partial and typical, 1003

Commenting, its progress, 35

Commission, Christ's final, not confined to eleven, 906

Commercial theory of Atonement, 747

Common law of church, what?, 970

Communion, prerequisites to, 969-980

limitation of, commanded by Christ and apostles, 969

limitation of, implied in its analogy to Baptism, 969

prerequisites to, laid down not by church, but by Christ and his apostles expressly or implicitly, 970

prerequisites to, are four, 970

Regeneration, a prerequisite to, 971

Baptism, a prerequisite to, 971

the apostles were baptized before, 971

the command of Christ places baptism before, 971

in all cases recorded in N. T. baptism precedes, 971

the symbolism of the ordinances requires baptism to precede, 971, 972

standards of principal denominations place baptism before, 972

where baptism customarily does not precede, the results are unsatisfactory, 972

church membership, a prerequisite to, 973

a church rite, 973

a symbol of Christian fellowship, 973

an orderly walk, a prerequisite to, 973

immoral conduct, a bar to, 973, 974

disobedience to the commands of Christ, a bar to, 974

heresy, a bar to, 974

schism, a bar to, 975

restricted, the present attitude of Baptist churches to, 976

local church under responsibility to see its, preserved from disorder, 975, 976

open, advocated because baptism cannot be a term of communion, not being a term of salvation, 977

open, contrary to the practice of organised Christianity, 977

no more binding than baptism, 978

open, tends to do away with baptism, 978

open, destroys discipline, 978

open, tends to do away with the visible church, 979

strict, objections to, answered briefly, 979, 980

open, its justification briefly considered, 980

a list of authors upon, 980

Compact with Satan, 458

Complex act, part may designate whole, 946

Concept, not a mental image, 7

in theology, may be distinguished by definition from all others, 15

Concupiscence, what?, 522

Romish doctrine of, 604

Concurrence in all operations at basis of preservation, 411

divine efficiency in, does not destroy or absorb the efficiency assisted, 418

God's, in evil acts only as they are natural acts, 418, 419

Confession, Romanist view of, 834

Conflagration, final, 1012

Confucianism, 180, 181

Confucius, 180, 181

Connate ideas, 53, 54

Conscience, what?, 82, 83

proves existence of a holy Lawgiver and Judge, 82

its supremacy, 82

warns of existence of law, 82

speaks in imperative, 82

represents to itself some other as judge, 82

the will it expresses superior to ours, 83

witness against pantheism, 103

thirst of, assuaged by Christ's sacrifice, 297

its nature, 498

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not a faculty, but a mode, 498

intellectual element in, 498

emotional element in, 498

solely judicial, 498

discriminative, 498

impulsive, 498

other mental processes from which it is to be distinguished, 499

the moral judiciary of the soul, 500

must be enlightened and cultivated, 500

an echo of God's voice, 501

in its relation to God as holy, 502

the organ by which the human spirit finds God in itself, and itself in God, 503

rendered less sensitive, but cannot be annulled, by sin, 647

needs Christ's propitiation, 736

absolute liberty of, a distinguishing tenet of Baptists, 898, 899

Consciousness, Christian, not norma normans, but norma normata, 28

defined, 63

not source of other knowledge, 63

self, primarily a distinguishing of itself from itself, 104

comes logically before consciousness of the world, 104

self consciousness, what?, 252

Consubstantiation, 968

Contrary choice, in Adam, 519

not essential to will, 600, 605

its present limits, 605

Contrition, Romish doctrine of, 834

Conversion, God's act in the will in, 793

sudden, 827

defined, 829

relation to regeneration, 829

voluntary, 829

man's relation to God in, 830

conversions other than the first, 831

relations of the divine and human in, 831

Cosmological argument, see God.

Covetousness, what?, 569

Cranial capacity of man and apes, 473

Creatianism, its advocates, 491

its tenets, 491

its untenability, 491-493

Creation, attributed to Christ, 310

attributed to Spirit, 316

doctrine of, 371-410

definition of, 371, 372

by man of ideas and volitions and indirectly of brain modifications, 371

is change of energy into force, 371

Lotzean, author's view of, 372

is not “production out of nothing,”, 372

is not “fashioning,”, 372, 373

not an emanation from divine substance, 372

the divine in, the origination of substance, 373

free act of a rational will, 373

externalization of God's thought, 373

creation and “generation” and “procession,”, 373

is God's voluntary limitation of himself, 373

how an act of the triune God, 373

not necessary to a trinitarian God, 373

the doctrine of, proved only from Scripture, 374

direct Scripture statements concerning, discussed, 374-377

idea of, originates, when we think of things as originating in God immediately, 375

Paul's idea of, 376

absolute, heathen had glimpses of, 376

best expressed in Hebrew, 376

found among early Babylonians, 376

found in pre-Zoroastrian, Vedic, and early Egyptian religions, 376

in heathen systems, 377

literature on, 377

“out of nothing,” its origin, 377

indirect evidence of, from Scripture, 377, 378

theories which oppose, 378-391

Dualism opposes, see Dualism.

Emanation opposes, see Emanation.

Creation from eternity, theory stated, 386

not necessitated by God's omnipotence, 387

contradictory in terms and irrational, 387

another form of the see-saw philosophy, 387

not necessitated by God's timelessness, 387

inconceivable, 387

not consistent with the conception of universe as an organism, 388

not necessitated by God's immutability, 388

not necessitated by God's love, 388, 389

inconsistent with God's independence and personality, 389

outgrowth of Unitarian tendencies, 389

Creation, opposed by theory of spontaneous generation, see Generation, Spontaneous.

Mosaic account of, 391-397

asserts originating act of God in, 391

makes God antedate and create matter, 391

recognizes development, 392

lays the foundation for cosmogony, 392

can be interpreted in harmony with mediate creation or evolution, 392

not an allegory or myth, 394

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Mosaic account of, not the blending of inconsistent stories,-394

not to be interpreted in a hyperliteral way, 394

does not use “day” for a period of twenty-four hours, 394

is not a precise geological record, 395

its scheme in detail, 395-397

literature upon, 396, 397

Creation, God's end in, 397-402

God's end in, his own glory, 398

God's chief end in, the manifestation of his glory, 398

his glory most valuable end in, 399

his glory only end in, consistent with his independence and sovereignty, 399

his glory the end in, which secures every interest of the universe, 400

his glory the end in, because it is the end proposed to his creatures, 401

its final value, its value for God, 402

the doctrine of, its relation to other doctrines, 402-410

its relation to the holiness and benevolence of God, 402

first, in what senses “very good,”, 402

pain and imperfection in, before moral evil, reasons for, 402

sets forth wisdom and free-will of God, 404

Christ in, the Revealer of God, and the remedy of pessimism, 405

presents God in Providence and Redemption, 407

gives value to the Sabbath, 408

Creation of man, exclusively a fact of Scripture, 465

Scripture declares it an act of God, 465

Scripture silent on method of, 465

Scripture does not exclude mediate creation of body, if this method probable from other sources, 465, 491

and theistic evolution, 466

his soul, its creation, though mediate, yet immediate, 466, 491

not from brute, but from God, through brute, 467, 469, 472

the last stage in the development of life, 469

unintelligible unless the immanent God is regarded as giving new impulses to the process, 470

as to soul and body, in a sense immediate, 470

natural selection, its relations to, 470

by laws of development, which are methods of the Creator, 472

when finished presents, not a brute, but a man, 472

constitutes him the offspring of God, and God his Father, 474

as taking place through Christ, made its product a son of God by relationship to the Eternal Son, 474

theory of its occurrence at several centres, 481

and his new creation compared, 694

in it body made corruptible, soul incorruptible, 991

Creation, continuous, its doctrine, 415

its advocates, 416

the element of truth in, 416

its error, 416

contradicts consciousness, 416

exaggerates God's power at expense of other attributes, 417

renders personal identity inexplicable, 417

tends to pantheism, 417

Creatura, 392

Credo quia impossibile est, 34

Creeds, 18, 42

Crime best prevented by conviction of its desert of punishment, 655

Crimen læsæ majestatis, 748

Criminal theory, 748

Criticism, higher, 169-172

what it means, 169

influenced by spirit in which conducted, 169, 170

its teachings on Pentateuch and Hexateuch, 170

reveals God's method in making up record of his revelation, 172

literature upon, 172

Cumulative argument, 71

Cur Deus Homo, synopsis of, 748

“Curse” in Gal. 3:13, 760

“Custom, immemorial,” binding, 970

“Damn,” its present connotation acquired from impression made on popular mind by Scriptures, 1046

“Damnation” in 1 Cor. 11:22, its meaning, 960

Darwinism, its teaching, 470

its truth, 470

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

fails to account for origin of substance and of variations, 470

does not take account of sudden appearance in the geological record of important forms of life, 470

leaves gap between highest anthropoid and lowest specimen of man unspanned, 471

fails to explain many important facts in heredity, 471

must admit that natural selection has not yet produced a species, as far as we know, 472

as its author understood it, was not opposed to the Christian faith, 473

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Day in Gen. 1, 35

its meaning, 223, 224, 394, 395

Deacons, their duties, 917, 918

ordination of, 919

Deaconesses, 918

Dead, Christ's preaching to, 707, 708

Dead, Egyptian Book of the, 995

extracts from, 995

resurrection in, 1022

judgment in, 1024

“Deadly sins, the seven,” of Romanism, 571, 572

Death, spiritual, a consequence of the Fall, 591

spiritual, in what it consists, 591, 659, 660, 982

physical, its nature, 656, 982

physical, a part of the penalty of sin proved from Scripture, 656, 657

and sin complemental, 657

a natural law, on occasion of man's sin, appointed to a moral use, 657

the liberator of souls, 658

the penalty of sin, proved from reason, 658

its universality how alone explained consistently with idea of God's justice, 658

not a necessary law of organized being, 658

higher being might have been attained without its intervention, 658

to Christian not penalty, but chastisement and privilege, 659, 983, 984

eternal, what?, 660

second, 648, 982, 983, 1013

not cessation of being, 984

as dissolution, cannot affect indivisible soul, 984

as a cessation of consciousness preparatory to other development, considered, 986

cannot terminate the development for which man was made, 986

cannot so extinguish being that no future vindication of God's moral government is possible, 987

cannot, by annihilation, falsify the testimony of man's nature to immortality, 989

man's body only made liable to, 991

as applied to soul, designates an unholy and unhappy state of being, 992

consciousness after, indicated in many Scriptures, 993, 994

a “sleep,”, 994

of two kinds, 1013

its passionless and statuesque tranquility prophetic, 1016

Decree to act not the act, 354, 359

Decree, the divine, permissive in case of evil, 354, 365

Decree, not a cause, 360

of end and means combined, 353, 363, 364

does not efficiently work evil choices in men, 365

to permit sin, and the fact of the permission of sin equally equitable, 365

to initiate a system in which sin has a place, how consistent with God's holiness?, 367

Decrees of God, the, 353-370

their definition, 353-355

many to us, yet in nature one plan, 353

relations between, not chronological but logical, 353

without necessity, 353

relate to things outside of God, 53

respect acts, both of God and free creatures, 354

not addressed to creatures, 354

all human acts covered by, 354

none of them read “you shall sin,”, 354

sinful acts of men, how related to, 354

how divided, 355

declared by Scripture to include all things, 355

declared by Scripture to deal with special things and events, 355

proved from divine foreknowledge, 356

respect foreseen results, 356

proved from divine wisdom, 358

proved from divine immutability, 358, 359

proved from the divine benevolence, 359

a ground of thanksgiving, 359

not inconsistent with man's free agency, 359

do not remove motive for exertion, 363

and fate, 363

encourage effort, 364

they do not make God the author of sin, 365

practical uses of the doctrine of, 368

the doctrine of, dear to matured understanding and deep experience, 368

how the doctrine should be preached, 369

Deism, defined, 414

some of its advocates, 414

an exaggeration of God's transcendence, 414

rests upon a false analogy, 415

a system of anthropomorphism, 415

denies providential interference, 415

tends to atheism, 415

“Delivering to Satan,” 457

Delphic oracle, 136

Demons, see Angels, evil.

Depravity, explained by a personal act in the previous timeless state of being, 488

of nature, repented of by Christians, 555

Arminian theory of, 601, 602

New School theory of, 606, 607

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Federal theory of, 612, 613

Augustinian theory of, 619, 620

defined, 637

total, its meaning, 637-639

is subjective pollution, 645, 646

Christ had no, 645, 756-758

of human will, requires special divine influence, 784

of all humanity, 813

Determinatio est negatio, 9

Determinism, 362, 507-510

Deus nescit se quid est quia non est quid, 244

Deuteronomy, 167-169, 171, 239

Devil, 454, 455

Dextra Dei ubique est, 708

Diabolus nullus, nullus Redemptor, 462

Diatoms, and natural selection, 471

Dichotomous and Dichotomy, see Man.

Dies Iræ, the, 645, 1056

Dignity, the plural of, 318

Disciples or Campbellites, 821, 840, 947

Discrepancies, alleged, in Scripture, 107, 108, 173, 174

Divorce, permitted by Moses, 230

Docetæ, 670

Doctor angelicus, 44

Doctor subtilis, 45

Doctrine, 17, 33, 34

Documentary evidence, 141, 142

Doddridge's dream, 453

Dogmatic system implied in Scripture, 15

Dogmatism, 42

Domine, quousque? Calvin's motto, 1008

Donum supernaturale, 522

Dort, Synod of, 614, 777

Douay version, Mat. 26:28 in, 965

Dualism, two forms of, 378

a form of, holds two distinct and co-eternal principles, 378

a history of this form of, 378-380

this form of, presses the maxim ex nihilo nihil fit too far, 380

this form of, applies the test of inconceivability too rigidly, 380

this form of, unphilosophical, 381

this form of, limits God's power and blessedness, 381

this form of, fails to account for moral evil, 381

another form of, holds the existence of two antagonistic spirits, 381, 382

this form of, at variance with the Scriptural representation of God, 382

this form of, opposed to the Scriptural representation of the Prince of Evil, 382

Ducit quemque voluptas, 299

Duties, our, not all disclosed in revelation, 545

Ebionism, 669

Ebionites, 669, 670

Ecclesiastes, 240

Ecclesiology, 887-980

Eden, adapted to infantile and innocent manhood, 583

Education, by impersonal law, and by personal dependence, 434

Efficacious call, its nature, 792, 793

“Effulgence,”, 335

Ego, cognition of it logically precedes that of non ego, 104

Egyptian language, old, its linguistic value, 497

idea of blessedness of future life dependent on preservation of body, 995

idea of permanent union of soul and body, 1022

way of representing God, 376, 377

knowledge of future state, 995

Einzige, der, every man is, 353

Eldership, plural, 915, 916

Election, its relation to God's decrees, 355

logically subsequent to redemption, 777

not to share in atonement but to special influence of Spirit, 779

doctrine of, 779-790

definition, 779

proof from Scripture, 779-782

statement preliminary to proof, 779

asserted of certain individuals, 780

asserted in connection with divine foreknowledge, 780, 781

asserted to be a matter of grace, 781

connected with a giving by Father to Son of certain persons, 781

connected with union with Christ, 781

connected with entry in the Lamb's Book of Life, 781

connected with allotment as disciples to certain believers, 782

connected with a special call of God, 782

connected with a birth by God's will, 782

connected with gift of repentance and faith, 782

connected with holiness and good works as a gift, 782

Lutheran view of, 782, 783

Arminian view of, 783

a group of views concerning, 783

proved from reason, 783-785

is the purpose or choice which precedes gift of regenerating grace, 783

is not conditioned on merit or faith in chosen, 784

needed by depravity of human will, 784

other considerations which make it more acceptable to reason, 785

objections to, 785-790

is unjust, 785

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is partial, 786

the ethical side of natural selection, 786

is arbitrary, 787

is immoral, 787, 788

fosters pride, 788

discourages effort, 788, 789

implies reprobation, 789, 790

list of authors on, 790

Elijah, his translation, 995

John the Baptist as, 1013

Elizabeth, Queen, immersed, 937

Elohim, 318, 319

Emanation theory of origin of universe, 378-383

Empirical theory of morals, truth in, 501

reconciled with intuitional theory, 501

Encratites, deny to woman “the image of God,”, 524

Endor, woman of, 966

“Enemies,” Rom. 5:10, 719

Energy, mental, life, 252

resisted, force, 252

universe derived from, 252

its change into force is creation, 252

dissipation of, 374, 415

Enghis and Neanderthal crania, 471

Enmity to God, 569, 817, 818

Enoch, translation of, 658, 994

Environment, 426, 1034, 1049

Eophyte and Eozoon, 395

Epicureanism, 91, 184, 299

Error, systems of, suggest organizing superhuman intelligences, 457

Errors in Scripture, alleged, 222-236

Eschatology, 981-1056

Esprit gelé (matter) Schelling's bon mot, 386

Essenes, 787

Esther, book of, 237, 309

“Eternal sin, an,”, 1034, 1048

Eternity, 276

Ethics, how conditioned, 3

Christian and Christian faith inseparable, 636

Eucharist, see Supper, the Lord's.

Eutaxiology, 75

Eutychians (Monophysites), 672

Eve, 525, 526, 676

Evidence, principles of, 141-144

Evil, 354, 1053

Evolution, behind that of our own reason stands the Supreme Reason, 25

and revelation constitute nature, 26

an, of Scripture as of natural science, 35

of ideas, not from sense to nonsense, 64

has given man the height fromwhich he can discern stars of moral truth previously hidden below the horizon, 65

a process, not a power, 76

only a method of God, 76

spells purpose, 76

awake to ends within the universe, but not to the great end of the universe itself, 76

answers objections by showing the development of useful collocations from initial imperfections, 78

has reinforced the evidences of intelligence in the universe, 79

transfers cause to an immanent rational principle, 79

a materialized, logical process, 84

of universe inexplicable unless matter is moved from without, 92

extension and, being, having thought and will, reveals itself in, 101

only another name for Christ, 109

views nature as a progressive order consisting of higher levels and phenomena unknown before, 121

its principle, the Logos or Divine Reason, 123

its continuity that of plan not of force, 128

depends on increments of force with persistency of plan, 123

irreconcilable with Deism and its distant God, 123

the basis and background of a Christianity which believes in a dynamical universe of which a personal and loving God is the inner source of energy, 123

implies not the uniformity, but universality of law, 126

has successive stages, with new laws coming in, and becoming dominant, 125

of Hegel, a fact but fatalistic, 176

of human society not primarily intellectual, but religious, 194

is developing reverence with its allied qualities, 194

if not recognized in Scripture leads to a denial of its unity, 217

of “Truth—evolvable from the whole, evolved at last painfully,”, 218

has given us a new Bible—a book which has grown, 224, 230, 231

in a progress in prophecy, doctrine and church-polity seen in Paul's epistles, 236

not a tale of battle, but a love-story, 264

the object of nature, and altruism the object of evolution, 264

explains the world as the return of the highest to itself, 266

in the idea of holiness and love exhibited in the palæontological [pg 1076] struggle for life and for the life of others, 268, 393

is God's omnipresence in time, 282

of his own being, God not shut up to a necessary, 287

working out a nobler and nobler justice is proof that God is just, 292

a method of Christ's operation, 311

in its next scientific form will maintain the divineness of man and exalt Jesus of Nazareth to an eminence secure and supreme, 328

“Father,” more than symbol of the cause of organic, 334

and gravitation, all the laws of, are the work and manifestation of the present Christ, 337

the conception of God in, leads to a Trinitarian conception, 349

theological, are the heathen trinities stages in?, 352

is a regress terminating in the necessity of a creator, 374

a self, of God, so Stoic monism regarded the world, 389

implies previous involution, 390

assumes initial arrangements containing the possibilities of the order afterwards evolved, 390

unable to create something out of nothing, 390

the attempt to comprehend the world of experience in terms of fundamental idealistic postulates, 390

that ignores freedom of God is pantheistic, 390

from the nebula to man, unfolds a Divine Self, 390

but a habitual operation of God, 390

not an eternal or self-originated process, 391

natural selection without teleological factors cannot account for biological, 391

and creation, no antagonism between, 391

its limits, 392

Spencer's definition of, stated and criticized, 392

illustrated in progress from Orohippus to horse of the present, 392

of inorganic forces and materials, an, in this the source of animate species, yet the Mosaic account of creation not discredited, 392

in all forms of energy, higher and lower, dependent directly on will of God, 393

the struggle for life to palæontological stages of, the beginning of the sense of right and justice, 268, 393

the struggle for the life of others in palæontological stages of, the beginning of altruism, 268, 393

the science of, has strengthened teleology, 397

its flow constitutes the self-revelation of the Infinite One, 413

process of, easier believed in as a divine self-evolution than as a mechanical process, 459

of man, physical and psychical, no exception to process of, yet faith in God intact, 465

cannot be explained without taking into account the originating agency of God, 465

does not make the idea of Creator superfluous, 466

theist must accept, if he keep his argument for existence of God from unity of design, 466

of music depends on power of transmitting intellectual achievements, 466

unintelligible except as immanent God gives new impulses to the process, 470

according to Mivart, it can account neither for body or soul of man, 472

still incomplete, man is still on all fours, 472

an atheistic, a reversion to the savage view, 473

theistic, regards human nature as efflux and reflection of the Divine Personality, 473

atheistic, satirized, 473

a superior intelligence has guided, 473

phylogenetic, in the creation of Eve, 525

normal, man's will may induce a counter-evolution to, 591

the goal of man's, is Christ, 680

the derivation of spiritual gifts from the Second Adam consonant with, 681

of humanity, the whole, depicted in the Cross and Passion, 716

the process by which sons of God are generated, 967

Example, Christ did not simply set, 732

Exegesis based on trustworthiness of verbal vehicle of inspiration, 216

Exercise-system of Hopkins and Emmons, 45, 416, 417, 584, 607, 822

Existence of God, see God.

Ex nihilo nihil fit, 380

Experience, 28, 63-65

Expiation, representative, recognized among Greeks, 723

Ezra, his relation to O. T., 167

Fact local, truth universal, 240

Facts not to be neglected, because relations are obscure, 36

Faculties, mental, man's three, 487

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Faith, a higher sort of knowledge, 3

physical science rests on, 3

never opposed to reason, 3

conditioned by holy affection, 3

act of integral soul, 4

can alone furnish material for a scientific theology, 4

not blind, 5

its fiducia includes notitia, 5

its place in the Arminian system, 605, 864

in a truth, possible in spite of difficulties to us insoluble, 629

does not save, but atonement which it accepts, 771

saving, is the gift of God, 782

an effect, not cause, of election, 784

involves repentance, 836

defined, 836

analyzed, 837

an intellectual element (notitia, credere Deum) in, 837

must lay hold of a present Christ, 837

an emotional element (assensus, credere Deo) in, 837

a voluntary element (fiducia, credere in Deum) in, 838

self-surrender to good physician, 838

the reflection of the Divine knowing and willing in man's finite spirit, 838

its most important element, will, 838

is a bond between persons, 839

appropriates Christ as source of pardon and life, 839

its three elements illustrated, 839

phrases descriptive of, 839

no element in, must be exaggerated at expense of the others, 839

views refuted by a proper conception of, 840

an act of the affections and will, 840

not a purely intellectual state, 841

is a moral act, and involves responsibility, 841

saving, its general and particular objects, 842

is believing in God as far as he has revealed himself, 842,

is it ever produced “without a preacher”? 843, 844

its ground of faith, the external word, 844

its ground of assurance, the Spirit's inward witness, 844

it is possible without assurance?, 845

necessarily leads to goods works, 846

is not to be confounded with love or obedience, 847

a work and yet excluded from the category of works, 847

instrumental cause of salvation, 847

the intermediate factor between undeveloped tendency toward God and developed affection for God, 847

must not be confounded with its fruits, 848

the actinic ray, 848

is susceptible of increase, 848

authors on the general subject of, 849

why justified by faith rather than other graces?, 864

not with the work of Christ a joint cause of justification, 864

its relation to justification, 865

the mediate cause of sanctification, 872

secures righteousness (justification plus sanctification), 873

Faithfulness, Divine, 288, 289

Fall, Scriptural account of temptation and, 582-585

if account of, mythical, yet inspired and profitable, 582

reasons for regarding account of, as historical, 582, 583

the stages of temptation that preceded, 584, 585

how possible to a holy being?, 585, 586

incorrect explanations of, 585

God not its author, 586

was man's free act of revolt from God, 587

cannot be explained on grounds of reason, 587

was wilful resistance to the inworking God, 587

was choice of supreme love to the world and self rather than supreme devotion to God, 587

cannot be explained psychologically, 587

is an ultimate fact, 587

an immanent preference which was first a choice and then an affection, 588

God's permission of the temptation preceding, benevolent, 588

not Satanic, because not self-originated, 588

its temptation objectified in an embodied seducer, an advantage, 588

presented no temptation having tendency in itself to lead astray, 588, 589

the slightness of the command in, the best test of obedience, 589

the command in, was not arbitrary, 589

the greatness of the sanction incurred in, had been announced and should have deterred, 590

the revelation of a will alienated from God, 590

physical death a consequence of, 590

brought death at once, 590

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mortal effects of the, counteracted by grace, 590

death said by some not to be a consequence of the, 591

spiritual death, a consequence of, 591

arrested the original tendency of man's whole nature to God, 591

depraved man's moral and religious nature, 591

left him with his will fundamentally inclined to evil, 592

darkened the intuition of reason, 592

rendered conscience perverse in its judgments, 592

terminated man's unrestrained intercourse with God, 592, 593

imposed banishment from the garden, 593

constituted Adam's posterity sinful, see Imputation.

of human nature could only occur in Adam, 629

repented of, because apostasy of our common nature, 629

all responsible for the one sin of the, as race-sin, 630

has depraved human nature, 637

has rendered human nature totally unable to do that which is good in God's sight, 640

has brought the race under obligation to render satisfaction for self-determined violation of law, 644

Fallen condition of man, Romanist and Protestant views of, 521, 522

Falsehood, what?, 569

Fatalism, 427

Fate and the decrees of God, 363

Father, God as, see Trinity.

“Father,” how applied to whole Trinity, 333

'our,' import, 334

Federal theology, 45, 46, 50, 612-616

Feeling, 17, 20, 21

Fellowship, Christian, not church, 979

Fetichism, 56, 532

Fiction, the truest, has no heroes, 575

Final cause, 44, 52, 60, 62, 75-77

Final Things, doctrine of, 981-1056

Finality, 75, 76, 78, 79

Fishes, the earliest, ganoids large and advanced in type, 470

Flesh, 562, 588, 673

“Fold,” none under New Dispensation, 807

Fons Trinitatis, 341

Force, no mental image of, 7

not the atom, the real ultimate, 91

a property of matter, 91, 96

behind all its forms, co-ordinating mind, 95

atom a centre of, 96

matter a manifestation of, 96, 109

expressed in vibrations foundation of all we know of extended world, 96

the only, we know is that of our own wills, 96

real, lies in the Divine Being, as living, active will, 97

matter and mind as respectively external and internal centres of, 98

as a function of will, 99, 109, 415, 416

all except that of men's free will, is the will of God, 99

the product of will, 109

in universe works in rational ways and must be product of spirit, 109

Christ, the principle of every manifestation of, 109

is God with his moral attributes omitted, 259

is energy under resistance, 371

is energy manifesting itself under self-conditioning or differential forms, 371

identified with the Divine Will, theories in which, 412

and will are one in God, 412

every natural, a generic volition of God, 413

a portion of God's, disjoined from him in the free-will of intelligent beings, 414

super cuncta, subter cuncta, 414

not always Divine will, 416

in its various differentations adjusted by God, 436

Foreknowledge of God of all future acts directly, 284

acts of free will excepted by some, 284, 285

denial of the absolute, productive of dread, 285

regarded by some as insoluble, 285

perhaps explicable by the possibility of an all-embracing present, 285

constant teaching of Scripture favors, 285

mediate, what?, 285

immediate, what?, 285

if intuitive, difficulty removed, 285, 357, 362

rests on fore-ordination, 356

preceded logically by decree, 356, 357

of undecreed actuals (scientia media), not possible, 357

two kinds of, 358

the middle knowledge of Molina, 358

of individuals, 781

distinguished from fore-ordination, 781

Forgiveness, not in nature but in grace, 548

cannot be granted unconditionally by public bodies, 766

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more than the taking away of penalty, 767

optional with God since he makes satisfaction, 767

human accorded without atonement, why not divine?, 835

defined in personal, ethical and legal terms, 854, 855

God's act as Father, 855

none in nature, 855

does not ensure immediate removal of natural consequences of sin, 855

the peculiar characteristic of Christian experience, 856

Fore-ordination, its nature, 355, 381

the basis of foreknowledge, 356

distinguished from foreknowledge, 781

Forms of thought are facts of nature, 10

Fourth gospel, its genuineness, 151

Free agency defined, 360

can predict its action, 360

Freedom, man's, consistent with the divine decrees, 359-362

four senses of word, 361

of indifference, 362

of choice, which is not incompatible with the complete bondage of will, 509, 510

remnants of, left to man, 510, 640

Freundlos war der grosse Weltenmeister, 386

Fürsehung and Vorsehung combined in “Providence,” 419

Future life, the evidence of Jewish belief in a, 994

Egyptian ideas about, 995

Moses instructed in Egyptian “learning” concerning, 995

proof-texts for, 996

doctrine of Pharisees supports, 996

Christ's argument for, 996

argument for, presupposes the existence of a truthful, wise and good creator, 996

the most conclusive proof of, Christ's resurrection, 997

Christ taught the doctrine of, 997

a revelation of, needed, 997

Futurist method of interpreting Revelation, 1009

Galton's view of piety, 83

Ganoids, the first geologic fishes, 470

Gemachte, das, sin is, 566

Genealogies of Scripture, 229

Generation, as applied to the Son, 340-343

spontaneous, 389

Genuineness of the Christian documents, 143-154

of the books of O. T., 165-172

Genus apotelesmaticum, 686

idiomaticum, 686

majestaticum, 686

Genus tapeinoticon, 686

Gesetz, 533

Gethsemane, 677, 731

Gewordene, das, is not sin, 566

Glory, final state of righteous, 1029

his own, why God's end in creation?, 397-402

Gnostic Ebionism, 669, 670

Gnostics, 20, 378, 383, 487

God, the subject of theology, though aprehended by faith, yet a subject of science, 3

human mind can recognize God, 4

though not phenomenal, can be known, 5

because of analogies between his nature and ours, can be known, 7

though no adequate image of, can be formed, yet may be known, 7

since all predicates of God are not negative, he may be known, 9

so limited and defined, that he may be known, 10

his laws of thought ours, and so he may be known, 10

can reveal himself by external revelation, 12

revealed in nature, history, conscience, Scripture, 14

Christ the only revealer of, 14

the existence of, 52-110

definitions of the term, 52

his existence a first truth, or rational intuition, 52

his existence conditions observation and reasoning, 52

his existence rises into consciousness on reflection on phenomena of nature and mind, 52

knowledge of his existence, universal, 56-58

knowledge of his existence, necessary, 58, 59

knowledge of his existence, logically independent of and prior to, all other knowledge, 59-62

other suggested sources of our idea of, 62-67

idea of, not from external revelation, 62, 63

idea of, not from tradition, 63

idea of, not from experience, 63-65

idea of, not from sense perception and reflection, 63, 64

idea of, not from race-experience, 64, 65

idea of, not from actual contact of our sensitive nature with God, 65

rational intuition of, sometimes becomes presentative, 65

idea of, does not arise from reasoning, 65, 66

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faith in, not proportioned to strength of reasoning faculty, 65

we know more of, than reasoning can furnish, 65, 66

idea of, not derived from inference, 66, 67

belief in, not a mere working hypothesis, 67

intuition of, its contents, 67-70

what he is, men to some extent know intuitively, 67

a presentative intuition of, possible, 67

a presentative intuition of, perhaps normal experience, 67

loss of love has weakened rational intuition of, 67

the passage of the intuition of, into personal and presentative knowledge, 68

his existence not proved but assumed and declared in Scripture, 68

evidence of his existence inlaid in man's nature, 68

knowledge of, though intuitive may be explicated and confirmed by argument, 71

the intuition of, supported by arguments probable and cumulative, 71

the intuition of, explicated by reflection and reasoning, 72

arguments for existence of, classified, 72

Cosmological Argument for his existence, 73-75

its proper statement, 73

its defects, 73, 74

its value, 74, 75

Teleological Argument for his existence, 75-80

its nature, 75-78

its defects, 78-80

its value, 80

Anthropological Argument for his existence, 80-85

its nature, 80-83

its defects, 84

its value, 84, 85

Historical Argument for his existence, 85

Biblical Argument for his existence, 85

Ontological Argument for his existence, 85-89

its three forms, 85, 86

its defects, 87

its value, 87-89

evidence of his existence from the intellectual starting-point, 88

evidence of his existence from the religious starting-point, 88

the nature, decrees and works of, 243-370

the attributes of, 243-306

his acts and words arise from settled dispositions, 243

his dispositions inhere in a spiritual substance, 243

his attributes, definition of, 244

relation of his attributes to his essence, 244-246

his attributes have an objective existence, 244

his attributes are distinguishable from his essence and from each other, 244

regarded falsely as being of absolute simplicity, 244

he is a being infinitely complex, 245

nominalistic notion, its error, 245

his attributes inhere in his essence, 245, 246

is not a compound of attributes, 245

extreme realism, its danger, 245

attributes of, belong to his essence, 245

his attributes distinguished from personal distinctions in his Godhead, 246

his attributes distinguished from his relations to the world, 246

illustrated by intellect and will in man, 246

his attributes essential to his being, 246

his attributes manifest his essence, 246

in knowing his attributes, we know the being to whom attributes belong, 246

his attributes, methods of determining, 246, 247

rational method of determining, 247

three viæ of rational method of determining his attributes, 247

Biblical method, 247

his attributes, how classified, 247-249

absolute or immanent, 247

his relative or transitive attributes, 247

his attributes, a threefold division of the relative or transitive, 248

his attributes, schedule of, 248

order in which they present themselves to the mind, 248

his moral perfection involves relation of himself to himself, 249

his absolute or immanent attributes, 249-275

his spirituality, 249-254

is not matter, 249

is not dependent upon matter, 249

the material universe, not his sensorium, 250

his spirituality not denied by anthropomorphic Scriptures, 250

pictures of him, degrading, 250

desire for an incarnate God, satisfied in Christ, 251

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his spirituality involves life and personality, 251, 252

life as an attribute of, 251

life in, has a subject, 251

life in, not correspondence with environment, 251

life in, is mental energy, the source of universal being and activity, 252

personality, an attribute of, 252

his personality, its content, 252

his infinity, its meaning, 254

his infinity, a positive idea, 254

does not involve identity with 'The All,', 255

intensive rather than extensive, 255

his infinity enables him to love infinitely the single Christian, 256

his infinity qualifies his other attributes, 256

what his infinity involves, 256-260

his self-existence, what?, 256

he is causa sui, 256

his aseity, what?, 256

exists by necessity of his own being, 257

his immutability, what?, 257

said to change, how explained, 257

his immutability secures his adaptation to the changing conditions of his children, 258

his immutability consistent with the execution in time of his eternal purposes, 258

permits activity and freedom, 258

his unity, what?, 259

notion of more than one, self-contradictory and unphilosophical, 259

his unity not inconsistent with Trinity, 259

his unity, its lessons, 259

his perfection, explanation of the term, 260

involves moral attributes, 260-275

himself, a sufficient object for his own activity, 260

his truth, what?, 260

his immanent truth to be distinguished from veracity and faithfulness, 260

he is truth, as the truth that is known, 261

his truth, a guarantee of revelation, and ground of eternal divine self-contemplation, 262

his love, what?, 263

his immanent love to be distinguished from mercy and goodness, 263

his immanent love finds a personal object in his own perfection, 263

his immanent love, not his all-inclusive ethical attribute, 263

his immanent love, not a regard for mere being in general, 263

his immanent love, not a mere emotional or utilitarian affection, 264

his immanent love, rational and voluntary, 264

his immanent love subordinates its emotional element to truth and holiness, 265

his immanent love has its standard in his holiness, and a perfect object in the image of his own infinite perfections, 265

his immanent love, a ground of his blessedness, 265

his immanent love involves the possibility of his suffering on account of sin, which suffering is atonement, 266

is passible, 266

blessedness consistent with sorrow, 266

a suffering being, a N. T. thought, 267

his passibility, authors on, 267

his holiness, self-affirming purity, 268

his holiness, not its expression, justice, 269

his holiness is not an aggregate of perfections, but simple and distinct, 269

his holiness is not utilitarian self-love, 270

his holiness is neither love nor its manifestation, 271

his holiness is purity of substance, 273

his holiness is energy of will, 273

his holiness is God's self-willing, 274

his holiness is purity willing itself, 274

his holiness, authors on, 275

his relative or transitive attributes, 275-295

his eternity, defined, 275

his eternity, infinity in its relation to time, 276

regards existing time as an objective reality, 277

in what sense the past, present and future are to him 'one eternal now,', 277

his immensity, what?, 278

not under law of space, 279

is not in space, 279

space is in him, 279

to him space has an objective reality, 279

his omnipresence, what?, 279

his omnipresence not potential but essential, 280

in what sense he “dwells in Heaven,”, 280

his omnipresence mistaken by Socinian and Deist, 280

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his whole essence present in every part of his universe at the same time, 281

his omnipresence not necessary, but free, 283

his omniscience, what?, 283

his omniscience, from what deducible, 283

its characteristics, as free from all imperfections, 283

his knowledge direct, 283

his omniscience, Egyptian symbol of, 283

his intense scrutiny, 283

knows things as they are, 284

foreknows motives and acts by immediate knowledge, 284

his prescience not causative, 286

his omniscience embraces the actual and the possible, 286

his omniscience called in Scripture “wisdom,”, 286

his omnipotence, what?, 286

his omnipotence does not extend to the self contradictory or the contradictory to his own nature, 287

has power over his own power, 287

can do all he will, not will do all he can, 287

has a will-power over his nature-power, 287

his omnipotence implies power of self-limitation, 288

his omnipotence permits human freedom, 288

his omnipotence humbles itself in the incarnation, 288

his attributes which have relation to moral being, 288-295

his veracity and faithfulness, or transitive truth, 288

his veracity secures the consistency of his revelations with himself, and with each other, 288

his veracity secures the fulfilment of all promises expressed or implied, 289

his mercy and goodness, or transitive love, 289

his mercy, what?, 289

his goodness, what?, 289

his love finds its object in his own nature, 290

his love, men its subordinate objects, 290

his justice and righteousness or transitive holiness, 290

his righteousness, what?, 291

his justice, what?, 291

his justice and righteousness not mere benevolence, nor so founded in the nature of things as to be apart from God, 291

his justice and righteousness are revelations of his inmost nature, 292

do not bestow reward, 293

are devoid of passion and caprice, 294

revulsion of his nature from impurity and selfishness, 294

his attributes, rank and relations, 295-303

his attributes related, 295

his moral attributes more jealously guarded than his natural, 295

his fundamental attribute is holiness, 296

may be merciful, but must be holy, 296

his holiness put most prominently in Scripture, 296

his holiness, its supremacy asserted by conscience, 296

his holiness conditions exercise of other attributes, 297

his holiness, a principle in his nature which must be satisfied before he can redeem, 298

his holiness, the ground of moral obligation, 298-303

commands us to be holy on the ground of his own holiness, 302

as holy, the object of the love that fulfils the law, 302

his holy will, Christ, our example, supremely devoted to, 302

the Doctrine of the Trinity in the One God, 304-352

see Trinity.

is causa sui, 338

is “self willing right,” 338

relations sustained by, in virtue of personal distinctions, 343

unity and threeness equally essential to, 346

independence and blessedness of, require Trinity, 347

Doctrine of his Decrees, 353-370

definition of his decrees, itemized, 353-355

evil acts, how objects of the decrees of, 354

his permissive, not conditional agency, 354

his decrees, how classified, 355

his decrees referred to in Scripture and supported by reason, 355-359

can preserve from sin without violation of moral agency, 366

his works, or the execution of his decrees, 371-464

not a demiurge working on eternal matter, 391

his supreme end in creation, his own glory, 397-402

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“his own sake,” the fundamental reason of activity in, 399

his self expression not selfishness, but benevolence, 400

the only Being who can rightly live for himself, 401

that he will secure his end in creation, the great source of comfort, 401

his rest, a new exercise of power, 411

not “the soul of the universe,” 411

the physical universe in no sense independent of, 413

has disjoined in the free will of intelligent beings a certain amount of force from himself, 414

the perpetual Observer, 415

does not work all, but all in all, 418

represented sometimes by Hebrew writers as doing what he only permits, 424

his agency, natural and moral, distinguished, 441

his Fatherhood, 474-476

implied in man's divine sonship, 474

extends in a natural relation to all, 474

provides the atonement, 474

special, towards those who believe, 474

secures the natural and physical sonship of all men, 474

this natural sonship preliminary in some to a spiritual sonship, 474

texts referring to, in a natural or common sense, 474

in the larger sense, what it implies, 474

natural, mediated by Christ, 474

texts referring to, in a special sense, 474, 475

to the race rudimental to the actual realization in Christ, 475

extends to those who are not his children, 475

controversy on the doctrine mere logomachy, 475

as announced by Jesus, a relation of love and holiness, 475

if not true, then selfishness logical, 475

this relationship realized in a spiritual sense through atoning and regenerating grace, 475

logical outcome of the denial of, 475, 476

universal ground for accepting, 476

authors upon, 476

our knowledge of, conditioned by love, 519, 520

“God prays” fulfilled in Christ, 675

reflected in universe, 714

the immanent, is Christ, the Logos, 714

exercises his creative, preserving and providential activity through Christ, 714

the Revealer of, is Christ, the Logos, 714

personal existence grounded in him, 714

all perceptions or recognitions of the objective through him, 714

as Universal Reason, at the basis of our self consciousness and thinking, 714, 715

is the common conscience, over finite, individual consciences, 715

the eternal suffering of, on account of human sin, manifested in the historical sufferings of the incarnate Christ, 715

the heart of, finally revealed in the historic sacrifice of Calvary, 716

dealings of repentant sinner with, rather than with government, 741

salvation of all, in which sense desired by, 791, 792

Golden Age, classic references to, 526

Good deeds of an unregenerated man, how related to the tenor of his life, 814

Goodness, defined, 289

Goodness of God, witness to among heathen, 113

Gospel, testimony of, conformable with experience, 173

its initial successes, a proof of its divine origin, 191

makes men moral, 863

Gospels, run counter to Jewish ideas, 156

superior in literary character to contemporary writings, 158

their relation to a historical Christ, 159

coincidence of their statements with collateral circumstances, 173, 174

Gottesbewusstsein, knowledge of God, 63

Government, common, not necessary in church of Christ, 913

Government, church, 903-926

Grace, supplements law as the expression of the whole nature of the lawgiver, 547, 548, 752

without works on the sinner's part, and without necessity on God's, 548

an expression of the heart of God, beyond law, and in Christ, 548

does not abrogate but reinforces and fulfils law, 548

secures fulfilment of law by removing obstacles to pardon in the divine mind, and enabling man to obey, 548

has its law which subsumes but transcends “the law of sin and death,” 548

has its place between the Pelagian and Rationalistic ideas of penalty, 548

a revelation partly of law, but chiefly of love, 549

the Pelagian idea of, 598

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universal, according to Wesley, 603

what, from the Arminian point of view, 605

may afford sinners a better security for salvation than if they were Adams, 635

a kingdom of, 775

men as sinners, its objects, 778

certain sinful men chosen to be recipients of special, 779

“unmerited favor to sinners,” 779

more may be equitably bestowed on one man than on another, 779

Gracious Ability, 602-604

Guilt, defined, 614, 644

how related to sin, 644, 645

how incurred, 644

not mere liability to penalty, 644

constructive, has no place in divine government, 644

to be distinguished from depravity, 645, 762

is obligation to satisfy outraged holiness of God, 645

of sin, how set forth in Scripture, 645

how Christ may have, without depravity, 645

and depravity, reatus and macula, 645

of race, how Christ bears, 646, 759

not to be confounded with the consciousness of, 647

first a relation to God, then to conscience, 647

administers its own anesthetics, 647

degrees of, 648-652

degrees of, set forth in Mosaic ritual, 648

casuistical refinements upon, not to be regarded, 648

variety of award in Judgment explained by degrees in, 648

measured by men's opportunities and powers, 649

measured by the energy of evil will, 649

measured by degrees of unreceptiveness in soul, 650

of race, shared in by Christ, 759

imparted and imputed to Christ, 759

Habit and character, 1049

“Hands of the Living God,” what? 539

Hatred, what? 569

Heart, its meaning in Scripture, 4

Heathen, the, their virtues, what? 570

may be saved who have not heard the gospel, 664, 843

their religious systems corrupting, 666

whatever good in their religions, God in, 666

in proportion to their culture, become despairing, 666

have an external revelation, 666

instances of apparently regenerated, 843, 844

Heathenism, a negative preparation for redemption, 665, 666

partly a positive preparation for redemption, 665

in it Christ as Logos or immanent God revealed himself in conscience and history, 665

had the starlight of religious knowledge, 666

their religions not the direct work of the devil, 666

authors on heathenism as an evangelical preparation, 666

Heaven, conception of, 1030

elements of its happy perfection, 1031

rewards in, equal yet various, 1031

is deliverance from defective physical organization and circumstances, 1031

its rest, 1031

how perfect on entering, 1031

a city, 1031

its love, 1031

its activities, 1031

is it a place as well as a state? 460, 1032

probably a place, 460, 1032

may be a state, 460

the essential presence of Christ's body would imply place, 1032

is it on a purified and prepared earth? 1032, 1033

Hebrews, genuineness and authorship, 152

anti-Ebionite, 669

Hell, essentially an inward condition, 460, 1034

the outward corresponds with inward, 1034

the pains of, not necessarily positive inflictions of God, 1035

is not an endless succession of sufferings, 1035

its extent and scope, 1052

compared with heaven, narrow and limited, 1052

only a spot, a corner in the universe, 1052

Henotheism, what? 259

Heredity, none in the race to predetermine self-consciousness, 467

some facts which heredity cannot explain, 471

often presents a product differing from both the producing agents, 492

its influence in fiction, 492

laws of, simply descriptions not explanations, 493

illustrations of heredity, 495, 496

cause of variations in, discussed, 497

Weismann's views of, 466, 497, 631

works for theology, 621, 632

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is God working in us, 624

the law by which living beings tend to reproduce themselves in their descendants, 625

the scientific attitude of mind in regard to, 632

the opposing views of, illustrated, 632

the conclusion best warranted by science in relation to, 632

when modifications are transmitted by, 632

may be intensified by individual action, 632

has given new currency to doctrine of “Original Sin,” 636

Heresy, what? 800

Hingewandt zu, Dorner's translation of πρός in John 1:3, 337

Hipparion, the two-toed horse, 472

Holiness of God, see God.

Holy Spirit, 13, 337

organ of internal revelation, 13, 337

recognized as God, 315

possession of, 322, 343

is a person, 323

his work other than that of Christ, 338, 339

sin against, 648, 650-652

relation to Christ in his state of humiliation, 669, 697, 703

application of redemption through work of, 777-886

Honestum and utile, 300

Host, Romish adoration of, 968

“Host,” Scriptural use of, 448

Humanity, capable of religion, 58

full concept of, marred in First Adam, realized in Second, 678

its exaltation in Christ, the experience of his people, 707

justified in Christ's justification, 862

Humanity of Christ, 673-681

atonement as related to, 754-763

see Christ.

Humiliation of Christ, 701-706

see Christ.

Humility, what? 832

Hyperphysical communication between minds perhaps possible, 1021

“I Am,” as a Divine title, 253

Idea of God, origin of our, 52-70

see God.

Ideal human nature in Christ, 678

Idealism, its view of revelation, 11, 12

Idealism, Materialistic, 95-100

Ideas have decided fate of world, 426

Identity, Edwards's theory of, 607

what it consists in, 1020-1023

Idiomaticum genus, 686

“Idle word,” 554

Idolatry, 7, 133, 251, 457, 532, 968

Ignorance, sins of, 554, 649

invincible, 967

Ignorantia legis neminem excusat, 558

Image, what it suggests, 335, 514

and likeness, 520

Image of God, in what it consisted, 514

its natural element, 514

its moral element, 514

personality, an element in, 515

holiness, an element in, 515, 516

its original righteousness, 517, 518

not confined to personality, 519, 520

not consisting in a natural capacity for religion, 520-523

reflects itself in physical form, 523

in soul proprie, in body significative, 523

subjects sensuous impulses to control of spirit, 523, 524

gives dominion over lower creation, 524

secures communion with God, 524, 525

had suitable surroundings and society, 525

furnished with tests of virtue, 526

had associated with it, an opportunity of securing physical immortality, 527

combated by those who hold that civilization has proceeded from primitive savagery, 527-531

combated by those who hold that religion begins in fetichism, 531, 532

Immortality, metaphysical argument for, 984, 985

teleological argument for, 986, 987

ethical argument for, 987, 988

historical argument, 989

widespread belief in, 989, 990

a general appetency for, 990

idea of, congruous with our nature, 990

authors for and against, 991

maintained on Scriptural grounds, 991-998

an inference from the intuition of the existence of God, 996

the resurrection of Jesus Christ the most conclusive proof of, 997

Christ taught, 997

Imprecatory Psalms, 231

Imputatio metaphysica, 615

Imputation of Adam's sin to his posterity, 593-637

taught in Scripture, 593

two questions demanding answer, 593

the meaning of the phrase, 354

has a realistic basis in Scripture, 594

two fundamental principles in, 595

theories of New and Old Schools, 596, 597

theories of, 597-637

Pelagian theory of, considered, 597-601

Arminian theory of, considered, 601-606

New School theory of, considered, 606-612

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Federal theory of, considered, 612-616

Mediate theory of, 616-619

Augustinian theory of, considered, 619-637

grounded on organic unity of mankind, 619

tabular views, 628

objections to Augustinian theory, 629-637

authors on, 637

of sin to Christ, grounded on a real union, 758

of Christ's righteousness to us, grounded on a real union, 805, 862

Indwelling of God, 693, 798

Inexistentia, 333

Infant salvation, 602, 609

doctrine of, 660-664

is assured, 661

its early advocates, 664

leads to the conclusion that no one is lost solely for sin of nature, 664

Infanticide might have been encouraged by too definite assurances of infant salvation, 663

Infants, their death proves their sinful nature, 579

are regarded by some as animals, 579, 611, 957

are unregenerate and in a state of sin, 661

relatively innocent, 661

objects of special divine care, 661, 662

chosen by Christ to eternal life, 662

salvation assured to those who die prior to moral consciousness, 662

in some way receive and are united to Christ, 662

at final judgment among the saved, 662

regeneration effected at soul's first view of Christ, 663

Inference, its nature and kinds, 66

Infinite, 9, 87, 254

Infinity of God, 254-256

see God.

Infirmity, sins of, 649, 650

Innate or connate ideas, what?, 54

Insitæ vel potius innatæ cogitationes, 53

Inspiration of Scripture, 196-242

definition of, 196-198

defined by result, 196

may include revelation, 196

may include illumination, 196

list of works on, 198

proof of, 198

presumption in favor of, 198

of the O. T., vouched for by Jesus, 199

promised by Jesus, 199, 200

claimed by the apostles, 200, 201

attested by miracle or prophecy, 201

chief proof of, internal characteristics, 201

theories of, 202-222

the Intuition-theory of, 202

this theory of, its doctrinal connections, 202

this theory of, uses only man's natural insight, 203

this theory of, denies to man's insight, vitiated in matters of religion and morals, an indispensable help, 203

this theory of, is self-contradictory, 203

is “the growth of the Divine through the capacities of the human,”, 204

this theory of, makes moral and religious truth purely subjective, 204

this theory of, practically denies a God who is Truth and its Revealer, 204

the Illumination-theory of, 204

this theory of, its doctrinal connections, 204

this theory of, principal advocates of, 205

in some cases amounted only to illumination, 206

more than an illumination, which cannot account for revelation of new truth, 206

if illumination only, cannot secure writers from serious error, 207

as mere illumination can enlighten truth already imparted but not impart it, 207

the Dictation-theory of, 208

this theory of, its doctrinal connections, 208

this theory of, its principal advocates, 208

this theory of, post-reformation, 209

this theory of, covers the few cases in which definite words were used with the command to write them down, 209

this theory of, rests on an imperfect induction of Scriptural facts, 210

this theory of, fails to account for the human element in Scripture, 210

this theory of, spendthrift in means, as dictating truth already known to recipient, 210

this theory of, reduces man's highest spiritual experience to mechanism, 210

the Dynamical theory of, 211-222

distinguished from other theories of, 211

no theory of, necessary to Christian faith, 211

union of the Divine and human elements in, 212-222

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its mystery, the union of the divine and human, 212

and hypnotic suggestion, 212

the speaking and writing the words of God from within, in the conscious possession and exercise of intellect, emotion and will, 212

pressed into service all the personal peculiarities, excellencies and defects of its subjects, 213

uses all normal methods of literary composition, 214

may use even myth and legend, 214

a gradual evolution, 214, 215

the divine side of what on its human side is discovery, 215

does not guarantee inerrancy in things not essential to its purpose, 215

in it God uses imperfect means, 215

is divine truth in historical and individually conditioned form, 216

did not directly communicate the words which its subjects employed, 216

has permitted no form of words which would teach essential error, 216

verbal, refuted by two facts, 216

constitutes its Scriptures an organic whole, 217

develops a progressive system with Christ as centre, 217

furnishes, in the Bible as a whole, a sufficient guide to truth and salvation, 218

overstatement of, has made sceptics, 218

constitutes Scripture an authority, but subordinate to the ultimate authority, Christ, 219

three cardinal principles regarding, 220

three common questions regarding, 220, 221

objections to the doctrine of, 222-242