VOLUME 2.

CHAPTER 4. — THE WORKS OF GOD, OR THE EXECUTION OF THE DECREES

SECTION 1. — CREATION
I. — Definition of Creation
II. — Proof of the Doctrine


1. Direct Scripture Statements
2. Indirect Evidence from Scripture

III. — Theories which oppose Creation

1. Dualism
2. Emanation
3. Creation from Eternity
4. Spontaneous Generation

IV. — The Mosaic Account of Creation

1. Its Twofold Nature
2. Its Proper Interpretation

V. — God’s End in Creation

1. The Testimony of Scripture
2. The Testimony of Reason

VI. — Relation of the Doctrine of Creation to other Doctrines

1. To the Holiness and Benevolence of God
2. To the Wisdom and Free Will of God
3. To Christ as the Revealer of God
4. To Providence and Redemption
5. To the Observance of the Sabbath

SECTION 2. — PRESERVATION
I. — Definition of Preservation
II. — Proof of the Doctrine of Preservation


1. From Scripture
2. From Reason

III. — Theories which virtually deny the Doctrine of Preservation

1. Deism
2. Continuous Creation

IV. — Remarks upon the Divine Concurrence

SECTION 3. — PROVIDENCE
I. — Definition of Providence
II. — Proof of the Doctrine of Providence


1. Scriptural Proof
2. Rational Proof

III. — Theories opposing the Doctrine of Providence

1. Fatalism427
2. Casualism
3. Theory of a merely General Providence

IV. — Relations of the Doctrine of Providence

1. To Miracles and Works of Grace
2. To Prayer and its Answer
3. To Christian Activity
4. To the Evil Acts Of Free Agents

SECTION 4. — GOOD AND EVIL ANGELS
I. — Scripture Statements and Intimations


1. As to the Nature and Attributes of Angels
2. As to their Number and Organization
3. As to their Moral Character
4. As to their Employments A. The Employments of Good Angels B. The Employments of Evil Angels

II. — Objections to the Doctrine of Angels

1. To the Doctrine of Angels in General
2. To the Doctrine of Evil Angels in Particular

III. — Practical Uses of the Doctrine of Angels

1. Uses of the Doctrine of Good Angels
2. Uses of the Doctrine of Evil Angels

PART 5. — ANTHROPOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF MAN

CHAPTER 1. — PRELIMINARY
I. — Man a Creation of God and a Child of God
II. — Unity of the Race


1. Argument from History
2. Argument from Language
3. Argument from Psychology
4. Argument from Physiology

III. — Essential Elements of Human Nature

1. The Dichotomous Theory
2. The Trichotomous Theory

IV. — Origin of the Soul

1. The Theory of Pre-existence
2. The Creation Theory
3. The Traducian Theory

V. — The Moral Nature of Man

1. Conscience
2. Will

CHAPTER 2. — THE ORIGINAL STATE OF MAN
I. — Essentials of Man’s Original State


1. Natural Likeness to God, or Personality
2. Moral Likeness to God, or Holiness A. . The Image of God as including only Personality B. The Image of God as consisting simply in Man’s natural capacity for Religion

II. — Incidents of Man’s Original State

1. Results of Man’s Possession of the Divine Image
2. Concomitants of Man’s Possession of the Divine Image 1st The Theory of an Original Condition of Savagery 2nd . The Theory of Comte as to the Stages of Human Progress

CHAPTER 3. — SIN, OR MAN’S STATE OF APOSTASY

SECTION 1. — THE LAW OF GOD
I. — Law in General
II. — The Law of God in Particular


1. Elemental Law
2. Positive Enactment

III. — Relation of the Law to the Grace of God

SECTION 2. — NATURE OF SIN
I. — Definition of Sin


1. Proof
2. Inferences

II. — The Essential Principle of Sin

1. Sin as Sensuousness
2. Sin as Finiteness
3. Sin as Selfishness

SECTION 3. — UNIVERSALITY OF SIN
I. — Every human being who has arrived at moral consciousness has committed acts, or cherished dispositions, contrary to the Divine Law
II. — Every member of the human race, without exception, Possesses a corrupted nature, which is a source of actual sin, and is itself sin

SECTION 4. — ORIGIN OF SIN IN THE PERSONAL ACT OF ADAM.

I. — The Scriptural Account in Genesis


1. Its General Character not Mythical or Allegorical, but Historical
2. The Course of the Temptation, and the resulting Fall

II. — Difficulties connected with the Fall, considered as the personal Act of Adam

1. How could a holy being fall?
2. How could God justly permit Satanic Temptation?
3. How could a Penalty so great be justly connected with Disobedience to so slight a Command?

III. — Consequences of the Fall. — so far as respects Adam

1. Death A. Physical Death or the Separation of the Soul from the Body B. Spiritual Death, or the Separation of the Soul from God
2. Positive and formal Exclusion from God’s Presence

SECTION 5. — IMPUTATION OF ADAM’S SIN TO HIS POSTERITY Scripture Teaching as to Race-sin and Race-responsibility
I. — Theories of Imputation


1. The Pelagian Theory, or Theory of Man’s Natural Innocence
2. The Arminian Theory, or Theory of voluntarily appropriated Depravity
3. The New-School Theory, or Theory of uncondemnable Vitiosity
4. The Federal Theory, or Theory of Condemnation by Covenant
5. Theory of Mediate Imputation, or Theory of Condemnation for Depravity
6. Augustinian Theory, or Theory of Adam’s Natural Headship. Exposition of Romans 5:12-19

II. — Objections to the Augustinian Theory of Imputation

SECTION 6. — CONSEQUENCES OF SIN TO ADAM’S POSTERITY
I. — Depravity


1. Depravity Partial or Total?
2. Ability or Inability?


II. — Guilt


1. Nature of Guilt
2. Degrees of Guilt

III. — Penalty

1. Idea of Penalty.
2. Actual Penalty of Sin

SECTION 7. — THE SALVATION OF INFANTS

PART 6. — SOTERIOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION THROUGH THE WORK OF CHRIST AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

CHAPTER 1. — CHRISTIOLOGY, OR THE REDEMPTION WROUGHT BY CHRIST

SECTION 1. — HISTORICAL PERPARATION FOR REDEMPTION
I. Negative Preparation, in the History of the Heathen World
II. — Positive Preparation, in the history of Israel

SECTION 2. — THE PERSON OF CHRIST
I. — Historical Survey of Views respecting the Person of Christ


1. The Ebionites
2. The Docette
3. The Arians
4. The Apollinarians
5. The Nestorians
6. The Eutychians
7. The Orthodox Doctrine

II. — The two Natures of Christ,. — their Reality and Integrity

1. The Humanity of Christ A. Its Reality B. Its Integrity
2. The Deity of Christ

III. — The Union of the two Natures in one Person

1. Proof of this Union
2. Modem Misrepresentations of this Union A. The Theory of Gess and Beecher, that the Humanity of Christ is a Contracted and Metamorphosed Deity B. The Theory of Dorner and Rothe, that the Union between the Divine and the human Natures is not completed by the Incarnating Act
3. The Real Nature of this Union.

SECTION 3. — THE TWO STATES OF CHRIST
I. — The State of Humiliation


1. The Nature of Christ’s Humiliation A. The Theory of Thomasius, Delitzsch, and Crosby, that the Humiliation consisted in the Surrender of the Divine Exercise of the Relative Attributes B. The Theory that the Humiliation consisted in the Surrender of the Independent Exercise of the Divine Attributes
2. The Stages of Christ’s Humiliation Exposition of Philippians 2 5-9

II. — The State of Exaltation

1. The Nature of Christ’s Exaltation
2. The Stages of Christ’s Exaltation

SECTION 4. — THE OFFICES OF CHRIST
I. The Prophetic Office of Christ


1. The Nature of Christ’s Prophetic Work
2. The Stages of Christ’s Prophetic Work

II. The Priestly Office of Christ

1. Christ’s Sacrificial Work, or the Doctrine of the Atonement A. Scriptural Methods of Representing the Atonement B. The Institution of Sacrifice, especially as found In the Mosaic System C. Theories of the Atonement 1st . The Socinian, or Example Theory of the Atonement 2nd . The Bushuellian, or Moral Influence Theory of the Atonement 3rd . The Grotian, or Governmental Theory of the Atonement 4th . The Irvingian Theory, or Theory of gradually extirpated Depravity 5th . The Anselmic, or Commercial Theory of the Atonement 6th . The Ethical Theory of the Atonement D. Objections to the Ethical Theory of the Atonement.. E. The Extent of the Atonement
2. Christ’s Intercessory Work

III. — The Kingly Office of Christ

VOLUME 3.