Indexes.
The author acknowledges his great indebtness to the Reverend Robert Kerr Eccles, M. D., of Lemoore, California, for the preparation of the exceedingly full and valuable Indexes which follow, and a similar obligation to Mr. Herman K. Phinney, Assistant Librarian of the University of Rochester, for his care in the proof-reading of the whole work.
Index Of Subjects.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
objected to, on the ground of errors in secular matters, 222
said to be erroneous in its science, 223
reply to above allegation against, 223-226
said to be erroneous in its history, 226
reply to above allegation against, 226-229
said to be erroneous in its morality, 230
reply to above allegation against, 230-232
said to be erroneous in its reasoning, 232
reply to above allegation against, 232, 233
said to be erroneous in quotation and interpretation, 234
reply to above allegation against, 234, 235
said to be erroneous in its prophecy, 235
reply to above allegation against, 235, 236
admits books unworthy of a place as inspired, 236
reply to above allegation against, 236-238
admits as authentic portions of books written by others than the persons to whom they are ascribed, 238
reply to above allegation against, 238-240
admits sceptical or fictitious narratives, 240
reply to above allegation against, 240-242
acknowledges non-inspiration of its teachers and writers, 242
reply to above allegation against, 242
Intercession of Christ, 773-775
see [Christ].
Intercessors, saints on earth are, 775
Intercommunicatio, 333
Intercommunion of the Persons in the Trinity, 332-334
Intermediate State, 998-1003
of the righteous, 988, 999
of the wicked, 999, 1000
not a sleep, 1000
not purgatorial, 1000
one of incompleteness, 1002
a state of thought, 1002
sin if preferred in this more spiritual state becomes demoniacal, 1002
some place the end of man's probation at the close of the, 1002
Intuition, 52, 53, 67, 72, 125, 499
Intuition-theory of inspiration, see [Inspiration].
Intuitional theory of morals, 501
reconciled with the empirical theory, 501
Intuitions, 52, 53, 67, 248
Isaiah, its composite character, 239
Islam, 186, 427
James, the apostle, his position on Justification, 851
Jefferson, Thomas, on a Baptist church as the truest form of democracy, 908
Jehovah, 256, 309
Jesus, bowing at the name of, 969
Jews, the only forward-looking people, 666
educated in three great truths, 666, 667
above truths presented by three agencies, 667, 668
this education first of all by law, 667
this education by prophecy, 667
this education by judgment, 668
effects of the exile upon, 668
as propagators of the gospel, 668
authors on Judaism as a preparation for Christ, 668
Job, the book of, when written, 241
is a dramatic poem, 240, 241
John, gospel of, differs from synoptics in its account of Jesus, 143
its genuineness, 151, 152
compared with Revelation, 151, 152
does its characteristic Logos doctrine necessitate a later date?, 320, 321
Judas, 884, 1043
Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur, 293
Judge, Christ the final, 1027, 1028
Judgment, the last, a final and complete vindication of God's righteousness, 1023, 1024
its nature outward, visible, definite in time, 1024, 1025
its object, the manifestation of character, and assignment of corresponding condition, 1025, 1026
evidences of, and preparation for, already in the nature of man, 1026, 1027
single acts and words adduced in, why?, 1027, 1028
the judge in, see preceding item, the subjects of, men and evil angels, 1028, 1029
the grounds of, the law of God and grace of Christ, 1029
list of authors on, 1029
Justice of God, 290-295
see [God].
Justification, involved in union with Christ, 805
the doctrine of, 849-868
defined, 849
declarative and judicial, 849
held as sovereign by Arminians, 849, 855
Scriptural proof of, 849, 850
its nature determined by Scriptural use of 'justify' and its derivatives, 850-854
James and Paul on, 851
includes remission of punishment, 854-856
a declaration that the sinner is just or free from condemnation of law, 854
is pardon or forgiveness as God is regarded as judge or father, 855
is on the ground of union with Christ who has borne the penalty, 855
includes restoration to favor, 856
since it treats the sinner as personally righteous it must give him the rewards of obedience, 856
is reconciliation or adoption as God is regarded as friend or father, 857
this restoration rests solely on the righteousness of Christ to whom sinner is united by faith, 858
its difficult feature stated, 859
believed on testimony of Scripture, 860
the difficulty in, relieved by three considerations, 860
is granted to a sinner in whose stead Christ has borne penalty, 860
is bestowed on one who is so united to Christ as to have Christ's life dominating his being, 860
is declared of one in whom the present Christ life will infallibly extirpate all remaining depravity, 860
its ground is not the infusion into us of righteousness and love (Romish view), 861
its ground is not the essential righteousness of Christ become the sinner's by faith, (Osiander) 861
its ground is the satisfaction and obedience of Christ the head of a new humanity of which believers are members, 861
is ours, not because Christ is in us, but because we are in Christ, 862
its relation to regeneration and sanctification delivers it from externality and immorality, 862, 863
and sanctification, not different stages of same process, 863
a declarative, as distinguished from the efficient acts of God's grace, regeneration and sanctification, 863
gifts and graces accompaniments, not consequences of, 864
why “by faith” rather than other graces?, 864
produced efficiently by grace, meritoriously by Christ, instrumentally by faith, evidentially by works, 865
as being complete at the moment of believing, is the ground of peace, 865
is instantaneous, complete and final, 867
not eternal in the past, 867
in, God grants actual pardon for past sin, and virtual pardon for future sin, 867
cannot be secured by future obedience, 868
must be secured by accepting Christ and manifesting trust and submission by prompt obedience, 868
list of authors on, 868
Justitia civilis, 639
Justus et justificans, 753
Kalpa, 352
Karen tradition, 116
Kenosis, 701, 704, 705
Keri and Kethib, 309
“Know,” its meaning in Scripture, 780
Knowledge includes faith as a higher sort of, 3, 4, 5
analogy to one's nature or experience not necessary to, 7
is “recognition and classification,”, 7
mental image, not essential to, 7
of whole not essential to partial, and of a part, 8
may be adequate though not exhaustive, 8
involves limitation or definition, 9
relative to knowing agent, 10
is of the thing as it is, 10
though imperfect, valuable, 37
requires pre-supposition of an Absolute Reason, 61
does not ensure right action, 111, 460
aggravates, but is not essential to, sin, 558
two kinds of, and scientia media, 357
sins of, 649
final state of righteous one of, 1029
Koran, 115, 186
Kung-fu-tse, see [Confucius].
Language, difficulty of putting spiritual truths into, 35
dead only living, 39
not essential to thought, 216
defined, 467
is the effect, not the cause of mind, 467
Law, cause and force known without mental image, 7
is method, not cause, 76
the transcript of God's nature, 293
in general, 533-536
its essential idea, 533
its implications, 533
first used of voluntary agents, 533
its use in physics implicitly confesses a Supreme Will, 533
its derivation in several languages, 533
because of its ineradicable implications, “method” has been suggested as a substitute, 533
definitions of, 533, 534
cannot reign, 534
its generality, 534
deals in general rules, 534
implies power to enforce, 534, 535
without penalty is advice, 535
in the case of rational and free agents implies duty and sanctions, 535
expresses and demands nature, 535
formulates relations arising in nature, 535
of God in particular, 536-547
elemental, 536-544
physical or natural, 536
moral law, 537
moral law, its implications, 537
is discovered, not made, 538
not constituted, but tested, by utility, 538
of God, what?, 538
the method of Christ, 539
authors upon, 539
not arbitrary, 539
not temporary, or provisional, 540
not merely negative, 540
as seen in Decalogue, 540
not addressed to one part of man's nature, 540
not outwardly published, 540, 541
not limited by man's consciousness of it, 541
not local, 541
not modifiable, 541
not violated even in salvation, 541
the ideal of human nature, 542
reveals love and mercy mandatorily, 542, 549
is all-comprehensive, 542
is spiritual, 543
is a unit, 543
is not now proposed as a method of salvation, 543
is a means of discovering and developing sin, 543, 544
reminds man of the heights from which he has fallen, 544
as positive enactment, 544-547
as shown in general moral precepts, 545
as shown in ceremonial or special injunctions, 545
its positive form a re-enactment of its elemental principles, 545
the written, why imperfect?, 546
the Puritan mistake in relation to, 546
its relation to the grace of God, 547-549
is a general expression of God's will, 547
is a partial, not an exhaustive, expression of God's nature, 547
pantheistic mistake in relation to, 547, 548
alone, leaves parts of God's nature to be expressed by gospel, 548
is not, Christ is, the perfect image of God, 548
not abrogated by grace, but republished and re-enforced, 548
of sin and death, 548
in the manifestation of grace, combined with a view of the personal love of the Lawgiver, 549
its all-embracing requirement, 572
identical with the constituent principles of being, 629
all-comprehending demand of harmony with God, 637
the Mosaic, inspired hope of pardon and access to God, 667
its basis in the nature of God, 764
as a moral rule unchanging, 875
freedom from, what?, 876
believer not free from obligation to observe, 876
as a system of penalty, believer free from, 876
as a method of salvation, believer free from, 876
as an outward and foreign compulsion, believer free from, 876
not a sliding scale graduated to one's moral condition, 877
God's, as known in conscience and Scripture, a ground of final judgment, 1029
Laws of knowing correspond to nature of things, 10
of theological thought, laws of God's thought, 10
of nature, not violated in miracle, 121
of nature, act not merely singly, but in combination, 434, 435
“Laying-on of hands,” its significance, 920
Letter-missive calling council of ordination, 922
Lex, its derivation, 533
Licensure, its nature, 919
Life contains promise and potency of every form of matter, 91
not produced from matter, 93
as it ascends, it differentiates, 240
not definable, 251
not a mere process, 251
more than environmental correspondence, 251
ascribed to Christ, 309
ascribed to Holy Spirit, 315
animal, though propagated, not material, 495
has power to draw from the putrescent material for its living, 677
its various relations honored by being taken into union with Divinity in Christ, 682
man's physical, conscious of a life within not subject to will, 799
man's spiritual, conscious of life within its life, 799
man's natural, preserved by God, much more his spiritual, 883
Christian, attains completeness in future, 981
sinful, attains completeness in future, 981
“book of,” the book of justification, 1029
Lineamenta extrema, 614
Locutiones variæ, sed non contrariæ; diversæ, sed non adversæ, 227
Logos, the whole, present in the man, Christ Jesus, 281
John's doctrine of the, radically different from Philo's, 320, 321
John's doctrine of the, related to the “memra” doctrine, 320
doctrine of the, authorities on, 321
significance of term, 335
the pre-incarnate, granted to men a natural light of reason and conscience, 603
purged of depravity that portion of human nature which he assumed in Incarnation, in the very act of taking it, 677
during earthly life of Jesus existed outside of flesh, 704
the whole present in Christ, and yet present everywhere else, 704
can suffer on earth, and yet reign in heaven at same time, 714
his surrender of independent exercise of divine attributes, how best conceived, 705
his part in evangelical preparation, 711
“Lord of Hosts,” its significance, 448
Lord's Day, 410
Lord's Supper, 959-980
Lord's Supper and Baptism, historical monuments, 151
Love, necessary to right use of reason with regard to God, 3, 29, 519, 520
its loss obscures rational intuitions of God, 67
God's, nature cannot prove it, 84
God's immanent, what?, 263
not to be confounded with mercy and goodness, 265
God's, finds a personal object within the Trinity, 285
constitutes a ground of divine blessedness, 285
God's transitive, what?, 289
God's transitive, is mercy and goodness, 289
distinct from holiness, 290, 567
attributed to Christ, 309
attributed to Holy Spirit, 316
revealed in grace rather than in law, 548
defined, 567
to God, all-embracing requirement of law, 572
eternity of God's, an effective element in appeal, 788
God's, fixed on sinners of whom he knows the worst, 788
God's unchanging, 788
God's, has dignity, 1051
brotherly, in heaven implies knowledge, 1031
Maat, the Egyptian goddess, 1024
Maccabees, First, no direct mention of God in, 309
Magister sententiarum, 44
Magnetism, personal, what? 820
Majestaticum genus, 686
Malice, what? 569
Malum metaphysicum, what? 424
Man, in what sense supernatural, 26
furnishes highest type of intelligence and will in nature, 79
as to intellect and freedom, not eternal a parte ante, 81
his intellectual and moral nature, implies an intellectual and moral author, 81
his moral nature proves existence of a holy Lawgiver, 82
his emotional and voluntary nature proves the existence of a Being who may be a satisfying object of human affection and end of human activity, 83
recognizes in God, not his like, but his opposite, 83
mistakes as to his own nature lead him into mistakes as to the First Cause, 84, 253
his consciousness, Royce's view, 99
his will above nature, 121
a concave glass towards God, 252
can objectify self, 252
is self-determining, 252
not explicable from nature, 411
a spiritually reproductive agent, yet God begets, 418
a creation, and child of God, 465-476
his creation a fact of Scripture, 465
exists by creative acts of God, 465
though result of evolution, yet originating agency of God needed, 465
whether mediately or immediately created Scripture does not explicitly state, 465
the true doctrine of evolution consistent with the Scriptural doctrine of creation, 466
certain psychological human endowments cannot have come from the brute, 466
God's breathing into men was such a re-inforcement of the processes of life as turned the animal into man, 467
and brute, both created by the immanent God, the former comes to his status not from but through the latter, 467
the beginnings of his conscious life, 467
some simple distinctions between man and brute, 467, 468
if of brute ancestry, yet the offspring of God, 469
Scripture teaches that man's nature is the creation of God, 469
his relations to animals, authors upon, 469
immediate creation of his body not forbidden by comparative physiology, 470
that his physical system is descended by natural generation from the simiæ, an irrational hypothesis, 470
as his soul was an immediate creation of God, so, in this sense, was his body also, 470
does not degenerate as we travel back in time, 471
no natural process accounts for his informing soul nor for the body informed by that soul, 472
the laws of development followed in man's origin from a brute ancestry are but methods of God, and proofs of his creatorship, 472
comes upon the scene not as a brute but as a self-conscious, self-determining being, 472
his original and new creation, both from within, 472
an emanation of that Divine Life of which the brute was a lower manifestation, 472
his nature not an undesigned result of atheous evolution but the efflux of the divine personality, 473
natural selection may account for man's place in nature, but not for his place as a spiritual being above nature, 473
his intellectual and moral faculties have only an adequate cause in the world of spirits, 473
apart from the controlling action of a higher intelligence, the laws of the material universe insufficient for his production, 473
his brute ancestry, list of authors on, 473, 474
his racial unity, 476-483
his racial unity, a fact of Scripture, 476
his racial unity at foundation of certain Pauline doctrines, 476
his racial unity, the ground of natural brotherhood, 476
the pre-Adamite, 476, 477
his racial unity, sustained by history, 477, 478
his racial unity, sustained by philology, 478, 479
his racial unity, sustained by psychology, 479
his racial unity, sustained by physiology, 480, 483
a single species under several varieties, 480
unity of species of, argues unity of origin, 481
according to Agassiz from eight centres of origin, 481
his racial unity, consistent with all existing physical varieties, 481, 482
physiological change in, illustrated, 482
his “originally greater plasticity,” 482
his racial unity, authorities on, 482, 483
the essential elements of his nature, 483-488
the dichotomous theory of his nature, 483, 484
the dichotomous theory of, supported by consciousness, 483
the dichotomous theory of, supported by Scripture, 483, 484
the trichotomous theory of his nature, 484-488
his ψυχή and πνεῦμα, 484
his spirit and soul, texts on, 484
trichotomous theory of his nature, element of truth in, 484
the trichotomous theory of his nature untenable, 485, 486
the true relation of πνεῦμα and ψυχή in his nature, 486-488
is different in kind from the brute, though possessed of certain powers in common with it, 486
since spirit is soul when in connection with the body, soul cannot be immortal unless with spiritual body, 486
the trichotomous theory of the nature of, untenable on psychological grounds, 486
a true view of the spiritual nature of, refutes six errors, 486, 487
some who have held the trichotomous view of, 487
his body, why honorable? 488
has been provided with a fleshly body, for two suggested reasons, 488
origin of his soul, 488-497
the theory of the pre-existence of his soul, 488-491
the advocates, ancient and modern, of this theory of soul pre-existence, 488, 489
the truth at the basis of soul pre-existence, 488
the theory of soul pre-existence, founded on an illusion of memory, 488
explanations of this illusion, 488
the theory of the soul's pre-existence, without Scriptural warrant, 489, 490
if his soul was conscious and personal in the pre-existent state, why is recollection even of important decisions so defective? 490
the pre-existence theory of the soul of, is of no theological assistance, 490
Müller's view of pre-existence stated and examined, 490, 491
the creatian theory of his soul, 491-493
its advocates, 491
Scripture does not teach that God immediately creates his soul, 491
creatianism repulsively false as representing him as not father of his offspring's noblest part, 492
his individuality, how best explained, 492
the creatian theory of his birth makes God the author of sin, 493
the creatian theory of his birth, certain mediating modifications of, 493
the traducian theory of his birth, 493-497
the traducian theory, its advocates, 493
the traducian theory explained, 494
the traducian theory best accords with Scripture, 494
the traducian theory is favored by the analogy of animal and vegetable life, 495
the traducian theory supported by the transmission of physical, mental, and moral characteristics, 495, 496
the traducian theory embraces the element of truth in the creatian theory in that it holds to a divine concurrence in the development of the human species, 497
his moral nature, 497-513
the powers which enter into his moral nature, 497
his conscience defined, 498
has no separate ethical faculty, 498
his conscience discriminative and impulsive, 498
his conscience distinguished from related mental processes, 499
his conscience the moral judiciary of the soul, 500
his conscience an echo of God's voice, 501
has the authority of the personal God, of whose nature law is but a transcript, 502-504
his will, 504-513
his will defined, 504, 505
his will and the other faculties, 505
his will and permanent states, 505, 506
his will and motives, 506, 507
his will and contrary choice, 507, 508
his will and his responsibility, 509, 510
his responsibility for the inherited selfish preferences of his will, its Scriptural explanation, 510
his natural bent of will to evil so constant, inveterate, and powerful that only regeneration can save him from it, 510
the hurtful nature of a deterministic theory of his will, 511-513
and his will, authors upon, 513
his original state, 514-532
his original state described only in Scripture, 514
list of authors on his original state, 514
essentials of his original state, 514-523
made “in the image of God,” what implied?, 514
made in natural likeness to God or personality, 514
made in moral likeness to God or holiness, 514
the elements in his original likeness to God, more clearly explicated, 514, 515
indwelt by the Logos or divine Reason, 515
never wholly loses “the image of God,”, 515
in a minor sense “gods” and “partakers of the divine nature,”, 515
has “a deeper depth” rooted and grounded in God, 515
created a personal being with power to know and determine self, 515
his natural likeness to God inalienable and the capacity that makes redemption possible, 515
his personality further defined, 515
should reverence his humanity, 515, 516
originally possessed such a direction of affections and will as constituted God the supreme end of his being, and himself a finite reflection of God's moral attributes, 517
his chief endowment, holiness, 517
his original righteousness as taught in Scripture, 517
in what the dignity of his human nature consists, 517
his original righteousness not the essence of his human nature, 518
his original righteousness not a gift from without and after creation, 518
his original righteousness a tendency of affections and will to God, 518
his original righteousness propagable to descendants, 518
his likeness to God, more than the perfect mutual adjustment of his spiritual powers, 519
his fall assigned by some to pre-existent state, 519
“the image of God” in, was, some say, merely the possibility (Anlage) of real likeness, 519
his individual will not the author of his condition of sin or of holiness, 519
since he originally knew God, must have loved God, 519, 520
primal “image of God,” not simply ability to be like God, but actual likeness, 520
if morally neutral, is a violator of God's law, 520
the original “image of God” in, more than capacity for religion, 520
scholastics and the Romanist church distinguished between “image” and “likeness” as applied to his first estate, 520
his nature at creation, according to Romanism, received a donum superadditum of grace, 520
his progress from the state in puris naturalibus to the state spoliatus a nudo, as the Romish church teaches, pictorially stated, 521
the Romish theory as to his original state considered in detail, 520-523
results of his original possession of the divine image, 523-525
his physical form reflects his original endowment, 523
originally possessed an æquale temperamentum of body and spirit which, though physically perfect, was only provisional, 523
had dominion over the lower creation, 524
enjoyed communion with God, 524, 525
concomitants of his possession of the divine image, 525-532
his surroundings and society fitted to afford happiness and help, 525, 526
his wife and her creation, 525
was perhaps hermaphrodite, 526
his garden, Eden, 526
provisions for trying his virtue, 526, 527
opportunity for securing for himself physical immortality, 527
the first, had he maintained his integrity, would have been developed and transformed without undergoing death, 527
the Scriptural view of his original state opposed by those who hold a prehistoric development of the race from savagery to civilization, 527
the originally savage condition of, an ill-founded assumption, 527-531
the Scriptural account of his original state opposed by those who hold the Positivist theory of the three consecutive conditions of knowledge, 531
the assumption that he must hold fetichism, polytheism, and monotheism in successive steps, if he progresses religiously, contradicted by facts, 531, 532
monotheistic before polytheistic, 531, 532
in some stocks never practiced fetichism, 532
the earliest discovered sepulchral remains of, prove by presence of food and weapons an advance upon fetichism, 532
his theologic thought not transient but rooted in his intuitions and desires, 532
in what sense a law unto himself, 539
as finite needs law, 542
as a free being needs moral law, 542
as a progressive being needs an ideal and infinite standard of attainment, 542
according to Scripture responsible for more than his merely personal acts, 634
not wholly a spontaneous development of inborn tendencies, 649
the ideal, realized only in Christ, 678, 679
his reconciliation to God, 777-885
his perfection reached only in the world to come, 981
Manhood of Christ, ideal, 678, 679
Manichæanism, 382, 670
Moriolatry, invocation of saints, and transubstantiation, origin of, 673
Marriage, a type of human and divine nature in Christ, 693
'Mary, mother of God,', 671, 686
Material force as little observable as divine agency, 8
organism, not necessarily a hindrance to activity of spirit, 1021
Materialism, idealism, and pantheism, arise from desire after scientific unity, 90
Materialism, what?, 90
element of truth in, 90
objection to, from intuition, 92
objection to, from mind's attributes, 92, 93
cannot explain the psychical from the physical, 93
furnishes no sufficient cause for highest phenomena of universe, 94
furnishes no evidence of consciousness in others, 94, 95
Sadducean, denies resurrection of body, 1018
recent, its services to proper views of body, 1018
Materialistic Idealism, 95-100
its definition, 95
its development, 95-97
defective in its definition of matter, 97
defective in its definition of mind, 97, 98
opposed to the imperative assumptions of non-empirical, transcendent knowledge of things-in-themselves, 98
however modified, cumbered with the difficulties of pure materialism, 98, 99
a view of, held by many Christian thinkers, 99, 100
Mathematics, a disclosure of the divine nature, 261
crystallized, the heavens are, 261
Matter, regarded as atoms which have force as a universal and inseparable property, 90, 91
in its more modern aspect, a manifestation of force, 91
the Tyndall and Crookes deliverances regarding, 91
mind intuitively regarded as different from it in kind, and higher in rank, 92
to be regarded as secondary and subordinate to mind, 93
and mind, relations between, 93, 94
does it provide “the needful objectivity for God”?, 347
its eternity not disprovable by reason, 374
not stuff that emanated from God, 385
not stuff, but an activity of God, 385
according to Schelling, esprit gelé, 386
its continuance dependent on God, 413
made by God, and, therefore, pure, 560
its capacities, as subservient to spirit, inestimable, 1021, 1022
Memory, its impeccability in the case of the apostles, secured by promised Spirit, 207
a preparation for the final judgment, 1026
of an evil deed, becomes keener with time, 1029
Memra, relation to Johannine Logos, 320
Mendacium officiosum, 262
Mennonites, 970
Mens humana capax divinæ, 212
Mens rea, essential to crime, 554
Mercy, in the God of nature, some indications which point to, 113
optional, 271, 296, 297
defined, 289
divine, a matter of revelation, 296
election a matter of, 779
Messiah, 321, 667, 668
Metaphysical generation of the soul, 493
Military theory of atonement, 747
Millennium, 1008-1015
Mind, has no parts, yet divisible, 9
its organizing instinct, 15, 16
gives both final and efficient cause, 76
recognizes itself as another and higher than the material organization it uses, 92
its attributes and itself different in kind and higher in rank than matter, 92, 93
not transformed physical force, 93
the only substantive thing in the universe, all else is adjective, 94
unsatisfactorily defined as a “series of feelings aware of itself,”, 97
Absolute, not conditioned as the finite mind, 104
“carnal,” its meaning, 592
Minister, his chief qualification, 17
his relation to church work, 898
forfeiture of his standing as, 923, 924
Miracle, a preliminary definition, 117
modified definition suggested by Babbage, 117, 118
“signality” must be preserved in definition of, 118
preferable definition, 118, 119
never regarded in Scripture as an infraction of law, 119
natural processes may be in, 119
the attitude of some theologians towards, irrational, 120
a number of opinions upon, presented, 120
possibility of, 121-123
not beyond the power of a God dwelling in and controlling the universe, shown in some observations, 121-123
possibility of, doubly strong to those who give the Logos or Divine Reason his place in his universe, 122
possible on Lotzean view of universe, 123
possible because God is not far away, 123
possible because of the action and reaction between the world and the personal Absolute, 123
a presumption against, 124
presupposes, and derives its value from, law, 124
a uniformity of nature, inconsistent with miracle, non-existent, 124
no one is entitled to say a priori that it is impossible (Huxley), 124
but the higher stage as seen from the lower, 125
when the efficient cause gives place to the final cause, 125
exists because the uniformity of nature is of less importance in the sight of God than the moral growth of the human spirit, 125
“the greatest I know, my conversion” (Vinet), 125
our view of, determined by our belief in a moral or a non-moral God, 126
is extraordinary, never arbitrary, 126
not a question of power, but of rationality and love, 126
implies self-restraint and self-unfolding, 126
accompanied by a sacrifice of feeling on the part of Christ, 126
probability of, greater from point of view of ethical monism, 126
a work in which God lovingly limits himself, 126
probability of, drawn from the concessions of Huxley, 127
the amount of testimony necessary to prove a, 127
Hume's misrepresentation of the abnormality of, 127
Hume's argument against, fallacious, 127
evidential force of, 128-131
accompanies and attests new communications from God, 128
its distribution in history, 128, 129
its cessation or continuance, 128, 132, 133
certifies directly not to the truth of a doctrine, but of a teacher, 129
must be supported by purity of life and doctrine, 129
to see in all nature the working of the living God removes prejudice against, 130
the revelation of God, not the proof of that revelation, 130
does not lose its value in the process of ages, 130
of the resurrection sustains the authority of Christ as a teacher, 130
of Christ's resurrection, is it “an obsolete picture of an eternal truth”?, 130
of Christ's resurrection, has complete historical attestation, 130, 131
of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by the swoon-theory of Strauss, 131
of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by the spirit-theory of Keim, 131
of Christ's resurrection, not explicable by the vision-theory of Renan, 131
of Christ's resurrection, its three lessons, 131
the counterfeit, 132
only a direct act of God a, 132
the counterfeit, attests the true, 132
how the false, may be distinguished from the true, 132, 133
Miracles as attesting Divine Revelation, 117-133
Mohammedanism, 186, 347, 427
Molecular movement and thought, 93
Molecules, manufactured articles, 77
Molluscs, their beauty inexplicable by “natural selection,”, 471
Monarchians, 327
Monism presents that deep force, in which effects, psychical and bodily, find common origin, 69
there must be a basal, 80
Monism, Ethical, defined, 105
consistent with the teachings of Holy Writ, 105
the faith of Augustine, 105
the faith of Anselm, 105, 106
embraces the one element of truth in pantheism, 106
is entirely consistent with ethical fact, 106
is Metaphysical Monism qualified by Psychological Monism, 106
is supplanting Dualism in philosophic thought, 106
it rejects the two main errors of pantheism, 107, 109
it regards the universe as a finite, partial, and progressive revelation of God, 107, 108
it regards matter as God's limitation under law of necessity, 107
it regards humanity as God's self-limitation under law of freedom, 107
it regards incarnation and atonement as God's self-limitation under law of grace, 107
regards universe as related to God as thought to the thinker, 107
regards nature as the province of God's pledged and habitual causality, 107
is the doctrine largely of the poets, 107, 108
guarantees individuality and rights of each portion of universe, 108
in moral realm estimates worth by the voluntary recognition and appropriation of the divine, 108
does not, like pantheism, involve moral indifference to the variations observed in universe, 108
does not regard saint and sensualist, men and mice as of equal value, 108
it regards the universe as a graded and progressing manifestation of God's love for righteousness and opposition to wrong, 108
it recognizes the mysterious power of selfhood to oppose the divine law, 108
it recognizes the protective and vindicatory reaction of the divine against evil, 108
it gives ethical content to Spinoza's apophthegm, 'all things serve,', 108
it neither cancels moral distinctions, nor minifies retribution, 108
recognizes Christ as the Logos of God in its universal acceptance, 109
recognizes as the Creator, Upholder, and Governor of the universe, Him who in history became incarnate and by death made atonement for human sin, 109
rests on Scriptural statements, 109
secures a Christian application of modern philosophical doctrine, 109
gives a more fruitful conception of matter, 109
considers nature as the omnipresent Christ, 109
presents Christ as the unifying reality of physical, mental and moral phenomena, 109
its relation to pantheism and deism, 109
furnishes a foundation for new interpretation in theology and philosophy, 109
helps to acceptance of Trinitarianism, 109
teaches that while the natural bond uniting to God cannot be broken, the moral bond may, 109, 110
how it interprets “rejecting” Christ, 110
enables us to understand the principle of the atonement, 110
strengthens the probability of miracle, 126
teaches that God is pure and perfect mind that passes beyond all phenomena and is their ground, 255
teaches that “that which hath been made was life in him,” Christ, 311
teaches that in Christ all things “consist,” hold together, as cosmos rather than chaos, 311
teaches that gravitation, evolution, and the laws of nature are Christ's habits, and nature but his constant will, 311
teaches that in Christ is the intellectual bond, the uniformity of law, the unity of truth, 311
teaches that Christ is the principle of induction, the medium of interaction, and the moral attraction of the universe, reconciling all things in heaven and earth, 311
teaches that God transcendent, the Father, is revealed by God immanent, the Son, 314
teaches that Christ is the life of nature, 337
teaches that creation is thought in expression, reason externalized, 381
teaches a dualism that holds to underground connections of life between man and man, man and nature, man and God, 386
teaches that the universe is a life and not a mechanism, 391
teaches that God personally present in the wheat makes it grow, and in the dough turns it into bread, 411
teaches that every man lives, moves, and has his being in God, and that whatever has come into being, whether material or spiritual, has its life only in Christ, 413
teaches that “Dei voluntas est rerum natura,”, 413
teaches that nothing finite is only finite, 413
its further teaching concerning natural forces and personal beings, 413, 414, 418, 419
allows of “second cause,”, 416
Monogenism, modern science in favor of, 480
Monophysites, 672
see [Eutychians].
Monotheism, facts point to an original, 56, 531
Hebrew, preceeds polytheistic systems of antiquity, 531, 532
more and more evident in heathen religions as we trace them back, 531, 532
an original, authors on, 531, 532
Montanists, 304
Montanus, 712
Moral argument for the existence of God, the designation criticized, 81
faculty, its deliverances, evidences of an intelligent cause, 82
freedom, what?, 361
nature of man, 497-513
likeness to himself, how restored by God, 518
law, what?, 537-544
law, man's relations to, reach beyond consciousness, 594
government of God, recognizes race-responsibilities, 594
union of human and divine in Christ, 671
analogies of atonement, 716
evil, see [Sin].
obligation, its grounds determined, 298-303
judgments, involve will, 841
Morality, Christian, a fruit of doctrine, 16
of N. T., 177, 178
Christian, criticized by Mill, 179
heathen systems of, 179-186
of Bible, progressive, 230
mere insistence on, cannot make men moral, 863
“Morning stars,”, 445
“Mother of God,”, 681
Motive, not cause but occasion, 360, 506
man never acts without or contrary to, 360
a ground of prediction, 360
influences, without infringing on free agency, 360
the previously dominant, not always the impulsive, 360
Motives, man can choose between, 360
persuade but never compel, 362, 506, 649
not wholly external to mind influenced by them, 506, 817
lower, sometimes seemingly appealed to in Scripture, 826, 827
Muratorian Canon, 147
Music, reminiscent of possession lost, 526
Mystic, 31, 81
Mysticism, true and false, 32
Mystik and Mysticismus, 31
Myth, its nature, 155
as distinguished from saga and legend, 155
“the Divine Spirit can avail himself of” (Sabatier), 155
'may be made the medium of revelation' (Denney), 214
not a falsehood, 155, 214
early part of Genesis may be of the nature of a, 214
Myth-theory of the origin of the gospels (Strauss), 155-157
described, 155, 156
objected to, 156, 157
authors on, 157
Nachwirkung and Fortwirkung, 776
“Name, in my,”, 807
Names of God, the five Hebrew,
Ewald on, 318
Nascimur, pascimur, 972
Natura, 392
Natura enim non nisi parendo vincitur, 541
Natura humana in Christo capax divinæ, 694
Natura naturans (Spinoza), 244, 287
Natura naturata (Spinoza), 244, 287, 700
Naturæ minister et interpres, 2
Natural = psychical, 484
Natural insight as to source of religious knowledge, 203
Natural law, advantages of its general uniformity, 124
events aside from its general fixity to be expected if moral ends require, 125
life, God's gift of, foreshadows larger blessings, 289
realism, and location of mind in body, 280
revelation supplemented by Scripture, 27
Natural Selection, artificial after all, 93
its teaching, 470
is partially true, 470
is not a complete explanation of the history of life, 470
gives no account of origin of substance or variations, 470
by the survival does not explain the arrival of the fittest, 470
does not explain the sudden and apparently independent appearance of important geologic forms, 470
certain entomological and anatomical facts are inexplicable upon the theory of, 471
fails to explain the beauty in lower forms of life, 471
no species has as yet been produced by either artificial or, 472
does not necessarily make the idea of Creator superfluous, 473
may account for man's place in, but not above, nature, 473
requires, according to Wallace, a superior intelligence to guide in definite direction or for special purpose, 473
a list of authors upon, 474
atheistically taught, is election with hope and pity left out, 784
Natural theology, what?, 260
Nature, its usual sense, 26, 121
its proper sense, 26, 121
its witness to God, outward and inward, 26
argument for God's existence from change in, 73-75
argument for God's existence from useful collocation in, 75-80
Mill's indictment of, 78
apart from man, cannot be interpreted, 79
does not assure us of God's love and provision for the sinner, 113, 114
by itself furnishes a presumption against miracles, 124
as synonym of substance, 243
according to Schleiermacher, 287
its forces, dependent and independent, 414
the brute submerged in, 468
human, why it should be reverenced, 515
in what sense sin a, 518
as something inborn, 518, 577, 578
the race has a corrupted nature, 577-582
sinful acts and dispositions explained by a corrupt, 577
a corrupt, belongs to man from first moment of his being, 578
a corrupt, underlies man's consciousness, 578
a corrupt, which cannot be changed by a man's own power, 578
a corrupt, the common heritage of the race, 578
designates, not substance, but corruption of substance, 578
how responsible for a depraved, which one did not personally originate, 593
human, Pelagian view of, 598
human, semi-Pelagian view of, 598
human, Augustinian view of, 598
human, organic view of, 600
human, atomistic view of, 600
the whole human race once a personality in Adam, 629
human, can apostatize but once, 630
human, totally depraved, 637-639
man can to a certain extent modify his, 642
sin of, and personal transgression, 648
impersonal human, 694
and person, 694, 695
Robinson's definition of, 695
human, is it to develop into new forms, 986
“Nature of things, in the,” the phrase examined, 357
Nazarenes, 669
see [Ebionites].
Nebular hypothesis, 395
Necessitarian philosophy, correct for the brute, 468
Negation, involves affirmation, 9
Neron Kaisar, and “666”, 1009
Nescience, divine, 286
see [God].
Nestorians, 671
Neutrality, moral, never created by God, 521
moral, a sin, 521
New England theology, 48, 49
New Haven theology, 49
New School theology, 48, 49, 606
its definition of holiness, 271, 272
its definition of sin, how it differs from that of Old School, 549, 550
ignores the unconscious and subconscious elements in human character, 550
its watchword as to sin, 595
its theory of imputation, an evasion, 596
its theory of imputation explained, 606, 607
development of its theory of inspiration, 607, 608
modifications of view within, 608
contradicts Scripture, 608, 609
its advocates cannot understand Paul, 609
rests upon false philosophical principles, 609, 610
impugns the justice of God, 610, 611
inconsistent with facts, 611, 612
its aim that of all the theories of imputation, 612
Nihil in intellectu nisi quod ante fuerit in sensu, 63
Nineveh, winged creatures of, 449
Nirvana, 182
Noblesse oblige, 301
Nomina become numina, 245
Nominalism inconsistent with Scripture, 244
Nominalist notion of God's nature, 244
Non-apostolic writings recommended by apostles, 201
Non-inspiration, seeming, of certain Scriptures, 242
Non pleni nascimur, 597
“Nothing, creation out of,”, 372
Notitia, an element in faith, 837
Noumenon in external and internal phenomena, 6
Nullus in microcosmo spiritus, nullus in macrocosmo Deus, 79
Obduracy, sins of, incomplete and final, 650
Obedience, Christ's active and passive, 749, 770
“Obey,” not the imperative of religion, 21
Obligation to obey law based on man's original ability, 541
Offences between men, 766
between church members, 924, 925
Old School theology, 49, 606, 607
Omission, sins of, 554, 648
Omne vivum e vivo (ex ovo), 389
Omnia mea mecum porto, 1032
Omnipotence of God, 286-288
see [God].
Omnipresence of God, 279-282
see [God].
Omnipresent, how God might cease to be, 282
Omniscience of God, 282-286
see [God].
“One eternal now,” how to be understood, 277
Ontological argument for existence of God, 85-89
see [God].
Optimism, 404, 405
Oracles, ancient, 135
Ordinances of the church, 929-980
Ordination of church officers, 918-929
Ordo salutis, 794
Organic and organized substances, 93
Organic, the, and atomistic views of human nature, 600
Original “image of God” in man, its nature, 514-523
Original natural likeness to God, or personality, 515, 519, 520
moral likeness to God, man's, or holiness, 516-518
righteousness, what? 517, 518
knowledge of God, man's, implied a direction of the affections and will toward God, 519
sin, as held by Old School theologians, 49
two-fold problem of, 593
its definition, 594, 595
two principles fundamental to consideration of, 595
a correct view of race-responsibility essential to a correct view of, 595
some facts in connection with the guilt of, 596
substance of Scriptural teaching concerning, 625-627
a misnomer, if applied to any theory but that of its author, Augustine, 636
no one finally condemned merely on account of, 596, 663, 664
state of man, 514-533
essentials of, 514-522
results of, 523-525
concomitants of, 525-532
Romish and Protestant views of, 521, 522
Os sublime, manifestation of internal endowments, 523
Pain, physical, existed before entrance of moral evil into world, 402
this supralapsarian pain, how to be regarded, 402
due not to God, but to man, 402
verdicts declarative of the secondary place of, 402
cannot explain its presence here by the good it may do, 403
it is God's protest against sin, 403
has its reason in the misconduct of man, 403
supralapsarian pain an “anticipative consequence,”, 403
God's frown upon sin, and warning against it, 403
Palestine, 174, 421
Pantheism, Idealistic, defined, 100
the elements of truth in, 100
its error, 100
denies real existence of the finite, 100
deprives the infinite of self-consciousness and freedom, 100
in it the worshiped is the worshiper, 100
the later Brahmanism is, 100
the fruit of absence of will and longing for rest as end of existence, as among Hindus, 100
in Hegelianism, presents the alternative, no God or no man, 100
of Hegel and Spinoza, 100, 101
of Hegel, its different interpreters, 101
of Hegel, as modified by Schopenhauer, 101
its idea of God self-contradictory, 101, 102
its asserted unity of substance without proof, 102
it assigns no sufficient cause for highest fact of universe, personal intelligence, 102
it contradicts the affirmations of our moral and religious nature, 103
antagonizes our intuitive conviction of the absolute perfection of God, 104
its objection that in eternity there was not not-self over against the Infinite to call forth self-consciousness, without foundation, 104
denies miracle, 122
denies inspiration, 204
anti-trinitarianism leads to, 347
involved in doctrine of emanation, 383
assumes that law fully expresses God, 547
should worship Satan, 566
at basis of Docetism, 676
not involved in doctrine of Union with Christ, 800
Parables, 240, 784
Paradise, 403, 998, 999
Paradoxon summum evangelicum, 753
Pardon, limited by atonement, objections to, refuted, 766
its conditions can of right be assigned by God, 767
the act of God as judge in justification, 855
and justification distinguished, 858, 859
through Christ, honors God's justice and mercy, 860
Parseeism, 185
Parsimony, law of, 74, 87
Passion, the, necessitated by Christ's incarnation, 760
Passover, 157, 723, 726, 960
Pastor, 908, 914, 915, 917
“Pastors and teachers,”, 915
Patripassians, 327
Paul, 210, 235, 851, 999
Peace, 865
Peccatum alienum, 616
Pelagianism, a development of rationalism, 89
its theory of imputation, 597-601
its principal author and present advocates, 597
its exposition, 597
its view of Romans 5:12, 597
its seven points, 597
its sinless men, 597
its “non pleni nascimur,”, 597
its misinterpretation of the divine influence in man, 597
is deism applied to man's nature, 598
ignores his dignity and destiny, 598
unformulated and sporadic, 598
unscriptural, 598, 599
a survival of paganism, 598
its key doctrine: Homo libero arbitrio emancipatus a Deo, 598
its unscriptural tenets specified, 598, 599
regards sins as isolated volitions, 599
its method contrasted with that of Augustinianism, 599
presents an Ebionitic view of Christ, 599
its principles false in philosophy, 600
ignores law by which acts produce states, 600
Penalty, what?, 294, 652, 653
Penalty, 652-660
its idea, 652
more than natural consequences of transgression, 652
not essentially reformatory, 653
what essentially?, 653
not essentially to secure social or governmental safety, 653, 655
not essentially deterrent, 655
of sin, two-fold, 656
of sin, is physical death, 656-659
of sin, is spiritual death, 659, 660
Penitence, 766
Pentateuch (Hexateuch), its authorship, 170-172
literature upon, 172
Perfect, as applied to men, 574
Perfection, in God, 9, 260-275
of Christian and church reached in world to come, 981
Perfectionism, its tenet, 877
its teachers, 877
its modifications, 877
authorities upon, 877
its fundamental false conceptions, 877, 878
is contradicted by Scripture, 878-886
disproved by Christian experience, 880
how best met, 880, 881
Permanent states of the faculties, 506, 550, 551
Perseverance, human side of sanctification, 868, 881
definition, 881
its proof from Scripture, 882
its proof from reason, 882, 883
is not inconsistent with human freedom, 883
does not tend to immorality, 883, 884
does not lead to indolence, 884
the Scriptural warnings against apostasy do not oppose it, 884, 885
apparent instances of apostasy do not oppose it, 885, 886
list of authors on general subject of, 886
“Person” in doctrine of Trinity, only approximately accurate, 330
Person, how communicated in different measures, 324
Person and character of Christ, as proof of revelation, 186-190
Person of Christ, the doctrine of, 669-700
historical survey of views regarding, 669-673
the two natures in their reality and integrity, 673-683
the union of the two natures in one, 683-700
Personal identity, 92, 417
intelligences cannot be accounted for by pantheism, 102
influence, often distinct from word spoken, 820
Personality, defined, 82, 252, 253, 330, 335, 515, 695
of God, the conclusion of the anthropological argument, 84
of God, denied by pantheism, 100
the highest dependent on infiniteness, 104
self-conscious and self-determining, 253
triple, in Godhead, consistent with essential unity, 330
in man, inalienable, 515
involves boundless possibilities, 515
foundation of mutual love among men, 515
constitutes a capacity for redemption, 515
Pessimism, 404, 405
Peter, how he differed with Paul, 214
Romish assumptions regarding, 909
Peter, Second, 147, 149, 153
Pharaoh, the hardening of his heart, 434
Phenomena, 6
Philemon and Onesimus, moralized, 767
Philosophy, defined, 42
Physico-theological argument, a term of Kant's, 75
Physiology, comparative, favors unity of race, 480-483
Pictures of Christ, 251
Pie hoc potest dici, Deum esse Naturam, 107
Plasticity of species, greater toward origin, 482
Plural quantitative, 318
Pluralis majestaticus, 318
Poesy and poem, 852
Poetry, 526
Polytheism, 259, 347
Pools of modern Jerusalem, 934
Positive Philosophy, 6, 9, 535, 545, 632
Possession by demons, 456
Præterist interpreters of Revelation, 1009
Prayer, relation of Providence to, 433
its effect, not solely reflex influence, 433
its answers not confined to spiritual means, 433
not answered by suspension or breach of the order of nature, 434
has no direct influence on nature, 434
is answered by new combinations of natural forces, 434
as an appeal to a personal and present God, it moves God, 435
its answer, while an expression of God's will, may come through the use of appointed means, 435
God's immanency in nature helps to a solution of the problem, how prayer is answered, 436
how the potency of prayer may be tested, 437, 438
Prayer-book, English, Arminian, 46
on infant baptism, 957
Prayer-book of Edward VI, mode of baptism in, 957
Preaching of doctrinal sermons, 19
of the decrees, 369
of the organic unity of the race in transgression, 634
larger part of, should consist in application of Divine law to personal acts, 648, 649
addressed to elect and non-elect, 789
must press immediate submission to Christ, 830
of everlasting punishment an auxiliary to the gospel appeal, 1053
Pre-Adamites, 476
Precedent, N. T., the 'common-law' of the church, 970
“Preconformity to future events,”, 76
Predestination, 355, 360, 781
Predicata, not attributes, 245
Prediction, only a part of prophecy, 134, 710
“Pre-established harmony,”, 93
Pre-existence of soul, 488-491
Preference, immanent, 514
“elective,”, 557
Preparation, historical, for redemption, 665-668
Prerational instinct, 98
Prescience, Divine, 286
Presentative intuition, 52, 53, 67
Preservation, 410-419
definition of, positive and negative, 410, 411
proofs of, from Scripture and reason, 411-414
deism, with its God withdrawn, denies, 414, 415
continuous creation, with momently new universe, inconsistent with, 415-418
divine concurrence in, considered, 418, 419
Pretermission of sin, 772
Preventive providence, 423
Pride, 569
“Priest” and “minister,”, 915, 967
Priestly office of Christ, 713-775
Probability, 71
Probation after death, 707, 1002, 1031-1044
in Adam, 629
Procession of the Holy Spirit, its true formula, 323
consistent with his equality in Trinity, 340, 341
Progress of early Christianity, what principally conduced to?, 187
Prolegomena, 1-15
Proof of Divine Revelation, principles of evidence applicable to, 41-44
Prophecy, as attesting a divine revelation, 134-141
defined in its narrow sense, 134, 135
its relation to miracles, 135
requirements in, 135
general features of Scriptural, 135, 136
Messianic in general, 136
as used by Christ, 136-138
the double sense of, 138-140
evidential force of, 140, 141
alleged errors in, 235, 236
Christians have gifts of, 712
modern, as far as true, what?, 712
Prophet, not always aware of meaning of his own prophecies, 139
later may elucidate earlier utterances, 235, 236
his soul, is it rapt into God's timeless existence and vision?, 278
larger meaning of the word, 710
Prophetæ priores, 710
Prophetic office of Christ, 710-713
see [Christ].
its nature, 710, 711
fulfilled in three ways, 711
its four stages, 711-713
in his Logos-work, 711
in his earthly ministry, 711, 712
in his guidance and teaching of the church since his ascension, 712
in his revelations of the Father to the saints in glory, 712, 713
will be eternal, 712
Propitiation, 719, 720
Proprietates, distinguished from attributes, 246
Proselyte-baptism, 931, 932
Protevangelium, Scripture germinally, 175
Providence, doctrine of, 419-443
defined, 419
explains evolution and progress of universe, 419, 420
doctrine of, its proof from Scripture, 421-425
a general providential control, 421, 422
a control extending to free actions of men in general, 422, 423
four sorts, preventive, permissive, directive, determinative, 423-425
rational proof of, 425-427
arguments a priori, 425, 426
arguments a posteriori, 426
opposed by theory of fatalism, 427
opposed by casualism, 427, 428
opposed by theory of a merely general providence, 428-431
its relation to miracles and works of grace, 431-433
its relation to prayer, 433-439
its relation to Christian activity, 439-441
to evil acts of free agents, 441-443
'Providential miracles,', 432
Psychic phenomena, 117
Punctiliousness, warning against, 428
Punishment, implied in man's moral nature, 82
does not proceed from love, 272
proceeds from justice, 293
its idea, 652, 752
what implied in its idea, 652-656
has in it, beyond the natural consequences of transgression, a personal element, 652
its object not the reformation of the sufferer, 653
is the necessary reaction of divine holiness against sin, 653
is not essentially deterrent, 655
of sin is physical death, 656-659
of sin is spiritual death, 659, 660
an ethical need of the divine nature, 751
an ethical need in man's moral nature, 751
of guilty, Christ's sufferings substituted for, 752
is borne by the judge and punisher in the nature that has sinned, 752
as presented in atonement, what it secures, 753
endured by Christ righteously, because of his relation to the sinning race, 754, 755
remitted in justification, 854
remitted on the ground of what Christ, to whom the sinner is united by faith, has done, 854, 858
the final, of the wicked described in Scriptural figures, 1033, 1034
the final, of the wicked, summed up, 1034
future, some concessions regarding, 1035
of wicked, the future, not annihilation, 1035, 1036
not a weakening process ending in cessation of existence, 1036, 1037
not an annihilating punishment after death, 1037
light from the evolutionary process thrown on, 1038
excludes new probation and ultimate restoration of the wicked, 1039
declared in Scripture to be eternal, 1044
is a revelation of God's justice, 1046
as the reaction of holiness against sin must continue while sin continues, 1046, 1047
is endless since guilt is endless, 1048
is eternal since sin is “eternal,”, 1048
the facts of human life and tendencies of scientific thought point to the perpetuity of, 1049
may have degrees yet be eternal, 1050
may be eternal as the desert of sin of infinite enormity, 1050
not inconsistent with God's benevolence, 1051-1054
its proper preaching not a hindrance to success of the gospel, 1054
if it is a fact, it ought to be preached, 1054
to ignore it in pulpit teaching lowers the holiness of God, 1055
the fear of, not the highest but a proper motive to seek salvation, 1055
in preaching it, the misery of the soul should have special emphasis, 1056
Purgatory, 659, 866, 1000-1002
Purification of Christ, the ritual, 761, 942, 943
Puritans, 546, 557
Purpose of God includes many decrees, 353
in election, what?, 355
in reprobation, what?, 355
to save individuals, passages which prove, 780-783
to do what he does, eternal, 783
to save, not conditioned upon merit or faith, 784
Quasi carcere, Christ not thus in Heaven, 709
Quia voluit of Calvin, not final answer as to God's acts, 404
Quickening, Christ's, distinguished from his resurrection, 707
Quietism, 439, 440
Quo non ascendam? not Christ's query, 764
Race, Scripture teaches its descent from a single pair, 476
its descent from a single pair a foundation truth of Paul's, 476
its descent from a single pair the foundation of brotherhood, 476
its descent from a single pair corroborated by history, 477, 478
its descent from a single pair corroborated by language, 478, 479
its descent from a single pair corroborated by psychology, 479, 480
its descent from a single pair corroborated by physiology, 480-483
Race-responsibility, 594-597
Rational intuition, 52, 67
Rationalism and Scripture, 29, 30, 89
Readings, various, 226
Realism, in relation to God, 245
Reason, definition of, 4, 29
its office, 29
says scio, not conscio, 500
moral, depraved, 501
Reasoning, not reason, 29
not a source of the idea of God, 65
errors of, in Bible, 232, 233
Recognition, post-resurrectional, 1020, 1021
Recollection of things not before seen, the seeming, explained, 488
memory greater than, 705
Reconciliation, removal of God's wrath, 719
of man to God, 777-886
objective, secured by Christ's union with race, 802
subjective, secured by Christ's union with believers, 802
Redemption and resurrection, what is secured by, 527
wrought by Christ, 665-776
its meaning, 707
legal, of Christ, its import, 761
its application, 777-886
application of, in its preparation, 777-793
application of, in its actual beginning, 793-868
application of, in its continuation, 868-886
Redi's maxim, 389
Reformed theology, 44-46
Regenerate, some apparently such, will fall away, 884
the truly, not always distinguishable in this life from the seemingly so, 884
their fate if they should not persevere described, 885
these warnings secure their perseverance, 885
Regeneration, illustrative of inspiration, 212
ascribed to Holy Spirit, 316
its nature, according to Romanists, 522
the view that a child may be educated into, 606
its place in the ordo salutis, 793
does a physical miracle attend?, 806
defined, 809
its active and passive aspects, 809
how represented in Scripture, 810-812
indispensable, 810
a change in the inmost principle of life, 810
a change in governing disposition, 810
a change in moral relations, 810, 811
wrought through use of truth, 811
is instantaneous, 811
wrought by God, 811
through union of soul with Christ, 811, 812
its necessity, 812-814
its efficient cause, 814-820
the will not the efficient cause, 815-817
is more than self-reformation, 815
is not co-operation with divine influence, which to the natural man is impossible, 816
the truth is not the efficient cause, 817, 818
the Holy Spirit, the efficient cause of, 818-820
the Spirit in, operates not on the truth but on the soul, 819
the Spirit in, effects a change in the moral disposition, 820
the instrumentality used in, 820-823
baptism a sign of, 821
as a spiritual change cannot be effected by physical means, 821
is accomplished through the instrumentality of the truth, 822
man not wholly passive at time of his, 822
man's mind at time of, active in view of truth, 822
nature of the change wrought in, 823-829
is a change by which governing disposition is made holy, 823-825
does not affect the quantity but the quality of the soul, 824
involves an enlightenment of the understanding and a rectification of the volitions, 825
an origination of holy tendencies, 826
an instantaneous change in soul, below consciousness and known only in results, 826-829
is an instantaneous change, 826, 827
should not be confounded with preparatory stages, 827
taken place in region of the soul below consciousness, 828
is recognized indirectly in its results, 828, 829
the growth that follows, is sanctification, 829
Regna, gloriæ, gratiæ (et naturæ), 775
Reign of sin, what?, 553, 554
Religion and theology, how related, 19
derivation of word, 19, 20
false conceptions of it advocated by Hegel, Schleiermacher, and Kant, 20, 21
its essential idea, 21, 22
there is but one, 22, 23
its content greater than that of theology, 23
distinguished from formal worship, 23, 24
conspectus of the systems of, in world, 179-186
Remorse, perhaps an element in Christ's suffering, 769
Reparative goodness of God in nature, 113
Repentance, more for sin than sins, 555
the gift of God, 782
described, 832
contains an intellectual element, 832
contains an emotional element, 832, 833
contains a voluntary element, 833, 834
implies free-will, 834
Romish view, 834
wholly an inward act, 834
manifested by fruits of repentance, 835
a negative and not a positive means of salvation, 835
if true, is in conjunction with faith, 836
accompanies true faith, 836
Reprobation, 355
Rerum natura Dei voluntas est, 119
Respice, aspice, prospice of Bernard applied to prophet's function, 710
Responsibility for whatever springs from will, 509
for inherited moral evil, its ground, 509
is special help of Spirit essential to? 603, 604
for a sinful nature which one did not personally originate, a fact, 629
none for immediate heredities, 630
for belief, authors on, 841
Restoration of all human beings, 1039-1044
Resurrection, an event not within the realm of nature, 118
of Christ, the central and sufficient evidence of Christianity, 138
of Christ, dilemma for those who deny, 130
of Christ, Strauss fails to explain belief in, 157
of Christ, attested by epistles regarded as genuine by Baur, 160
of Christ, Renan's view of, 160, 161
Christ's argument for, Matt. 22:32, 232, 996, 1018
attributed to Christ, 310
attributed to Holy Spirit, 316
of Christ, angel present at, 483
of Christ, gave proof that penalty of sin was exhausted, 657
a stage in Christ's exaltation, 707
proclaimed Christ as perfected and glorified man, 708
of Christ, the time of his justification, 762
secured to believer by union with Christ, 805, 806, 867
relation to regeneration, 824
sanctification completed at the, 874
of Christ and of the believer, Baptism a symbol of, 940-945
implied in symbolism of Lord's Supper, 963, 964
Christ's body, an object that may be worshiped, 968
an event preparing for the kingdom of God, 981
allusions to, in O. T., 995
of Christ, the only certain proof of immortality, 997
perfect joy or misery subsequent to, 1002
Scriptures describing a spiritual, 1015
Scriptures describing a physical, 1015
art and post-resurrection possibilities, 1016
personality in, being indestructible, takes to itself a body, 1016
Christ's body in, an open question, 1016
an exegetical objection to, 1016
“of the body,” the phrase not in N. T., 1016
receive a “spiritual body” in, 1016, 1017
the indwelling of the Holy Spirit secures preservation of body in, 1017
the believer's, as literal and physical as Christ's, 1018
literal, to be suitable to events which accompany, 1018
the physical connection between old and new body in, not unscientific, 1019
the oneness of the body in, and our present body, rests on two things, 1020
the body in, though not absolutely the same, will be identical with the present, 1020, 1021
the spiritual body in, will complete rather than confine, the activities of spirit, 1021, 1022
four principles should influence our thinking about, 1022, 1023
authors on the subject in departments and entirety, 1023
Revelation, of such a nature as to make scientific theology possible, 11-15
Revelation in nature requires supplementing, 26, 27
God submits to limitations of, which are largely those of theology, 34-36
how regarded in “period of criticism and speculation,”, 46
the Scriptures a, from God, 111-242
reasons for expecting from God a, 111-114
psychology shows that the intellectual and moral nature of man needs a, 111, 112
history shows that man needs a, 112
what we know of God's nature leads to hope of a, 112, 113
a priori reasons for expecting, 113, 114
marks of the expected, 114-117
its substance, 114
its method, 114-116
will have due attestation, 116, 117
attended by miracles, 117-134
attested by prophecy, 134-141
principles of historical evidence entering into proof of, 141-144
Scripture, 175
its connection with inspiration and illumination, 196, 197
Revenge, what?, 569
“Reversion to type” never occurs in man, 411
Rewards, earthly, appealed to in O. T., 230
proceed from goodness of God, 290, 293
not bestowed by justice or righteousness, 293
goodness to creatures, righteousness to Christ, 293
are motives, not sanctions, 535
Right, abstract, not ground of moral obligations, 299
God is self-willing, 338
based on arbitrary will is not right, 338
based on passive nature, is not right, 338
as being is Father, 338
as willing is Son, 338
Righteousness of God, what?, 290
holiness in its mandatory aspect, 291
its meaning in 2 Cor. 5:21, 760
demands punishment of sin, 764
is justification and sanctification, 873
Romanism, and Scripture, 33, 34
a mystical element in, 33
it places church before the Bible, 33
would keep men in perpetual childhood, 33, 34
Sabbath commemorates God's act of creation, 408
made at creation applies to man always and everywhere, 408
recognized in Assyria and Babylonia, as far back as Accadian times before Abraham, 408
was not abrogated by our Lord or his apostles, 409
upon, 409
Sabbath, Christ's example and apostolic sanction have transferred it from seventh to first day of week, 409
Justin Martyr on, 410
authors on, 410
Sabellianism, 327, 328
Sacrifice, 722-728
what it is not, 722, 723
its true import, 723, 724
pagan and Semitic, its implications, 723, 724
in the legend of Æschylus, 723
of the Passover, H. C. Trumbull's views of, 723
its theocratical and spiritual offices, 724
of O. T., when rightly offered, what implied in, 725, 726
cannot present a formal divine institution, 726
how Abel's differed from Cain's, 727
the terminology of O. T. regarding, needful to correct interpretation of N. T. usage regarding atonement of Christ, 727
differing views as to significance of, 728
Sacrifices, Jewish, a tentative scheme of, 725, 726
Saints, prayer to, 775
how intercessors?, 775
as applied to believers, 880
Sanctification, related to regeneration and justification, 862, 863
definition of, 869
what implied in definition of, 869, 870
explanations and Scripture proof of, 870-875
a work of God, 870
a continuous process, 871
distinguished from regeneration, 871
shown in intelligent and voluntary activity of believer, 871, 872
the agency employed in, the indwelling Spirit of Christ, 872
its mediate or instrumental cause is faith, 872
the object of this instrumental faith is Christ himself, 873
measured by strength of faith, 873
influenced by lack of persistency in using means of growth, 874
completed in life to come, 874
erroneous views of, 875-881
the Antinomian view, 875-877
the Perfectionist view, 877-881
Sanctify, its twofold meaning, 880
Satan, his personality, 447
not a collective term for all evil beings, 447
various literary conceptions of, 447
meaning of term, 454
opposed by Holy Spirit, 454
his temptations, 455
has access to human mind, 455
may influence through physical organism, 455
“delivering to,” 457
was specially active during earthly ministry of Christ, 458
his power limited, 458
the idea of his fall not self-contradictory, 460
not irrational to suppose that by a single act he could change his nature, 460
present passion may lead a wise being to enter on a foolish course, 460
that God should create and uphold evil spirits no more inconsistent with benevolence than similar action towards evil men, 461
a ganglionic centre of an evil system, 461
the doctrine of, if given up, leads to laxity in administration of justice, 462
as tool and slave of, humanity is indeed degraded, but was not always, nor needs to be, 462
the fall of, uncaused from without, 585
like Adam, sins under the best circumstances, 588
permitted to divide the guilt with man that man might not despair, 588
grows in cunning and daring, 1037
Satisfaction to an immanent demand of divine holiness rendered by Christ's obedience and suffering, 713, 723
by substitution founded on incorporation, 723
and forgiveness not mutually exclusive because the judge makes satisfaction to his own violated holiness, 767
penal and pecuniary, 767
sinner's own act, according to Romish view, 834
Scholasticism and Scholastics, 44, 45, 265, 268, 443
Science, defined, 2
its aim, 2
on what its possibility is grounded, 2
requires a knowledge of more than phenomena, 6
existence of a personal God, its necessary datum, 60
Scientia media, simplicis intelligentiæ, visionis, 358
Scientific unity, desire for, its influence, 90
Scio and conscio, 500
Scripture and nature, 26
and rationalism, 29-31
contains nothing repugnant to a properly conditioned and enlightened reason, 29
and mysticism, 31, 32
and Romanism, 33, 34
knowledge of, incomplete, 35
topics on which silent, 72
supernatural character of its teaching, 175
its moral and religious ideas uncontradicted and unsuperseded, 175
its supernaturally secured unity, 176
Christ testifies to its supernatural character, 189
result of its propagation, 191
how interpreted?, 217
authors differ, divine mind one, 217
the Christian rule of faith and practice, 218
contains no scientific untruth, 224
not a code of practical action, but an enunciation of principles, 545
Scriptures, the, a revelation from God, 111-242
work of one God, and so organically articulated (Scripture), 217
why so many interpretations of?, 223, 224
a rule in their interpretation, 1011
“Sealing,”, 831, 872
Seals, in Revelation, 1010
Selection, natural, without teleological factors, its inadequacy, 391
is it in any sense the cause of the origin of species?, 391
it has probably increased the rapidity of development, 391, 392
or “survival of the fittest,” how suggested?, 403
defined, 470
is partially true, 470
it gives no account of the origin of substance or variations, 470
not the savior of the fittest, but the destroyer of the failures, 470
facts that it cannot explain, 470, 471
nor artificial has produced a new species, 471
Self-limitation, divine, 9, 126, 255
Selfishness, the essence of sin, 567
cannot be resolved into simpler elements, 568
forms in which it manifests itself, 568, 569
of unregenerate, the substitution of a lower for a higher end, 570
Sentimentality, 979
“Signality,” in miracle, 118
Sin, God the author of free beings who are the authors of, 365
the decree to permit not efficient, 365
its permission a difficulty of all theistic systems, 366
its permission, how not to be explained, 366
its permission, how it may be partially explained, 366
the problem of, one of four at present not to be completely solved, 366, 367
observations from many sources aiming to throw light on the existence of moral evil, 367, 368
man's, as suggested from without, perhaps the mitigating circumstance that allows of his redemption, 462
in what sense a nature?, 518
effect of first, not a weakening but a perversion of human nature, 521
the first did more than despoil man of a special gift of grace, 521
or man's state of apostasy, 533-664
its nature, 549-573
defined, 549
Old and New School views regarding, their difference and approximation, 549, 550
as a state, some psychological notes explanatory of, 550, 551
as a state is counteracted by an immanent divine power which leads towards salvation, 551
“total depravity” as descriptive of, an out-grown phrase, 552
as act of transgression and disposition or state, proved from Scripture, 552-554
the words which describe, applicable to dispositions and states, 552
N. T. descriptions of, give prominence to states and dispositions, 552, 553
and moral evil in the thoughts, affections, and heart, 553
is name given to a state which originated wrong desires, 553
is represented as existing in soul prior to consciousness of it, 553
a permanent power or reigning principle, 553
Mosaic sacrifices for sins other than mere act, 554
universally attributed to disposition or state, 554
attributed to outward act only when such act is symptomatic of inward state, 554
if it tend from act to a state, regarded as correspondingly blameworthy, 554
in an individual condemned though it cannot be traced back to a conscious originating act, 554, 555
when it becomes fixed and dominant moral corruption, meets special disapprobation, 555
regarded by the Christian as a manifestation of subconscious depravity of nature, 555
repented of, principally as depravity of nature, 555
rather than “sins” repented of by Christians advanced in spiritual culture; a conspectus of quotations to prove this, 555-557
its definition as 'the voluntary transgression of known law' discussed, 557-559
is not always a distinct and conscious volition, 557
intention aggravates, but is not essential to, 558
knowledge aggravates, but is not essential to, 558
ability to fulfil the law, not essential to, 558
definition of, 558, 559
its essential principle, 559-573
is not sensuousness, 559-563
is not finiteness, 563-566
is selfishness, 567-573
is universal, 573-582
committed by every human being, arrived at maturity, 573
its universality set forth in Scripture, 573, 574
its universality proved from history, 574
its universality proved from Christian experience, 576
the outcome of a corrupt nature possessed by every human being, 577
is act or disposition referred to a corrupt nature, 577
rests on men who are called in Scripture 'children of wrath,', 578
its penalty, death, visits those who have never exercised personal or conscious choice, 579
its universality proved from reason, 579, 580
testimony of great thinkers regarding, 580-582
its origin in the personal act of Adam, 582-593
the origin of the sinful nature whence it comes is beyond the investigations of reason, 582
Scriptural account of its origin, 582-585
Adam's, its essential nature, 587
of Adam in resisting inworking God, 587
an immanent preference of the world, 587
not to be accounted for psychologically, 587
the external temptation to first sin a benevolent permission, 588
self-originated, Satanic, 588
the first temptation to, had no tendency to lead astray, 588
the first, though in itself small, a revelation of will thoroughly alienated from God, 590
consequences of original, as respects Adam, 590-593
physical death, a consequence of his first, 590, 591
spiritual death, a consequence of his first, 591, 592
exclusion from God's presence, a consequence of his first, 592
banishment from the Garden, a consequence of man's first, 593
the, of our first parents constituted their posterity sinners, 593
two insistent questions regarding the first, and the Scriptural answer, 593
imputation of, its true meaning, 594
original, its meaning, 594
man's relations to moral law extend beyond conscious and actual, 595
God's moral government recognizes race-sin, 595
actual, more guilty than original, 596
no man condemned for original, alone, 596, 664
the only ground of responsibility for race-sin, 596
original, its correlate, 596
imputation of Adam's, 597-637
see [Imputation].
Pelagian theory of the imputation of, 597-601
Arminian theory of the imputation of, 601-606
New School theory of the imputation of, 606-612
Federal theory of the imputation of, 612-616
Mediate theory of the imputation of, 616-619
Augustinian theory of the imputation of, 619-637
table of theories of imputation of, 628
apart from, and prior to, consciousness, 629
conscience and Scripture attest that we are responsible for our unborn tendency to, 629
as our nature, rightly punishable with resulting sin, 632
reproductive, each reproduction increasing guilt and punishment, 633
each man guilty of personal, which expresses more than original depravity of nature, 633
is self-perpetuating, 633
is self-isolating, 634
the nature, and sins its expression, 635
as Adam's, ruins, so Christ's obedience saves, 635
consequences of, to Adam's posterity, 637-664
depravity a consequence of Adam's, 637-640
in nature, as “total depravity,” considered, 637-640
total inability a consequence of Adam's, 640-644
guilt a consequence of Adam's, 644-652
penalty, a consequence of Adam's, 652-660
infants in a state of, 661
venial and mortal, 648
of nature and personal transgression, 648, 649
of ignorance and of knowledge, 649
of infirmity and of presumption, 649, 650
of incomplete and final obduracy, 650-652
unto death, considered, 650-652
against Holy Spirit, why unpardonable, 651, 652
penalty of, considered, 652-660
infants in a state of, 661
Christ free from hereditary and actual, 676-678
Christ responsible for human, 759
Christ responsible for Adam's, 759
Christ as great Penitent confesses race-sin, 760
Christ, how made to be, 760-763
a pretermission of, justified in cross, 772
does not condemn, but the failure to ask pardon for it, 856
judged and condemned on Calvary, 860
future, the virtual pardon of, 867
“dwelling,” and “reigning,”, 869, 870
expelled by bringing in Christ, 873
does not most sympathize with sin, 1028
hinders intercourse with other worlds, 1033
“eternal,”, 1033
made the means of displaying God's glory, 1038
chosen in spite of infinite motives to the contrary, 1040
Sinner, the incorrigible, glorifies God in his destruction, 442
negatively described, 637, 638
positively described, 639
what he can do, 640
what he cannot do, 640
under conviction, more of a sinner than before, 827
has no right to do anything before accepting Christ, 868
“Six hundred sixty-six,”, 570
“Slope, the,”, 580
Society, atomistic theory of, 623
Society, bellum omnium contra omnes (Hobbes), 461
Socinianism, 47, 328, 329, 524, 558, 597, 728-733
Solidarity, 624
Sola fides justificat, sed fides non est sola, 758
“Son,” its import in Trinity, 334
Son, the, a perfect object of will, knowledge and love to God, 275, 388
his eternal generation, 341
uncreate, 341
his essence not derived from essence of the Father, 341
his existence eternal, 341
exists by internal necessity of Divine nature, 342
eternal generation of, a life movement of the Divine nature, 342
in person subordinate to person of Father, 342
in essence equal with Father, 342
Son of man, cannotes, among other things, a veritable humanity, 673
Song of Solomon, 233, 238
Sonship of Christ, eternal, 340
metaphysical, 340
authors on, 343
Sorrow for sin, 832, 833
Soteriology, 665-894
Soul, what?, 92
dichotomous view of, 483
trichotomous view of, 484
distinguished from spirit, 484
its origin, 488
its pre-existence, according to poets, 489
creatian theory of, 491
not something added from without, 492
introduced into body, sicut vinum in vase acetoso, 493
metaphysical generation of, 493
traducian theory of, 494-497
history of theory, 493, 494
observations favorable to, 494-497
image of God, proprie, 528
always active, though not always conscious, 550
may influence another soul apart from physical intermediaries, 820
not inaccessible to God's direct operation, 820
as uncompounded cannot die, 984
see [Immortality].
“Sovereign, the,” a title of Messiah, 321
Space, 278, 279
Space and time, 85, 275
Space “in God,”, 279
Species, 392, 480-482, 494
Spirit, the Holy, his teaching, a necessity, 27
hides himself, 213
recognized as God, 315
divine characteristics and prerogatives ascribed to, 316
associated with God, 316
his deity supported by Christian experience, 316
his deity, a doctrine of the church, 316
the Holy, his deity not disproved by O. T. limitations, 317
his deity, authors on, 317
is a person, 323
designations of personality given to him, 323
“the mother-principle” in the Godhead, 323
so mentioned with other persons as to imply personality, 323, 324
performs acts of personality, 324
affected by acts of others, 324
possesses an emotional nature, 325
visibly appears as distinct from, yet connected with Father and Son, 325
ascription to him, of personal subsistence, 325
import of his presence in Trinity, 334
the centripetal movement of Deity, 336
and Christ, differences in their work, 338-340
his nature and work, authors on, 340
his eternal procession, 340-343
if not God, God could not be appropriated, 349
a work of completing belongs to, 313
applies Scriptural truth to present circumstances, 440
directs the God-man in his humiliation, 696
his intercession, 774, 775
his intermediacy, 793
witness of, what?, 844, 845
doctrine of “sealing” distinguished from mysticism, 845
in believer, substitutes old excitements, 872
“Spirit” and “soul,”, 843
Spirit, how applied to Christ, 333
Spirits, evil, tempt, 455
control natural phenomena, 455
execute God's plans, 457
not independent of human will, 457, 458
restrained by permissive will of God, 458
exist and act on sufferance, 459
their existence not inconsistent with benevolence of God, 461
are organized, 461
the doctrine of, not immoral, 461, 462
doctrine of, not degrading, 462
their nature and actions illustrate the evil of sin, 463
knowledge of their existence inspires a salutary fear, 463
sense of their power drives to Christ, 463
contrasting their unsaved state with our spiritual advantages causes us to magnify grace of God, 463
“Spirits in prison,”, 707, 708
Spiritual body, 1016, 1017
Spiritualism, 32, 132
Spontaneous generation, 389
Stoicism, 184
Style, 223
Sublapsarianism, 777
Subordinationism, 342
Substance, known, 5
its characteristics, 6
a direct knowledge of it as underlying phenomena, 97
Substances, the theory of two eternal, 378-383
See [Dualism].
Substantia una et unica, 86
Suffering, in itself not reformatory, 104
Suggestion, 453, 454
“Sunday,” used by Justin Martyr, 148
Supererogation, works of, 522
Supper, the Lord's, a historical monument, 157
its ritual and import, 959
instituted by Christ, 959, 960
its mode of administration, 960-962
its elements, 960
its communion of both kinds, 960
is of a festal nature, 960, 961
commemorative, 961
celebrated by assembled church, 961
responsibility of its proper observance rests with pastor as representative of church, 962
its frequency discretional, 962
it symbolizes personal appropriation of the benefits of Christ's death, 963
it symbolizes union with Christ, 963
it symbolizes dependence on Christ, 963
it symbolizes a reproduction of death and resurrection in believer, 963
it symbolizes union in Christ, 963
it symbolizes the coming joy and perfection of the kingdom of God, 963
its connection with baptism, 964
is to be often repeated, 964
implies a previous state of grace, 964
the blessing conveyed in communion depends on communicant, 964
expresses fellowship of believer, 964
the Romanist view of, 965-968
the Lutheran and High Church view of, 968, 969
there are prerequisites, 969, 970
prerequisites laid down by Christ, 970
regeneration, a prerequisite to, 971
baptism, a prerequisite to, 971-973
church membership, a prerequisite to, 973
an orderly walk, a prerequisite to, 973-975
the local church the judge as to the fulfilment of these prerequisites, 975-977
special objections to open communion presented, 977-980
Supralapsarianism, 777
Symbol, derivation and meaning, 42
less than thing symbolized, 1035
Symbolism, period of, 45
Symbolum Quicumque, 329
Synagogue, 902
Synergism, 816
Synoptic gospels, date, 150
“Synthetic idealization of our existence,”, 568
Synthetic method in theology, 50
System of theology, a dissected map, some parts of which already put together, 15
Systematic theologian, the first, 44
Systematic truth influences character, 16
Tabula rasa theory, of Locke, 35
Talmud shows what the unaided genius for religion could produce, 115
Tapeinoticon genus, 686
“Teaching, the, of the Twelve Apostles,”, 159, 937, 953
Teleological argument for the existence of God, 75-80
statement of argument, 75
called also “physico-theological,”, 75
divided by some into eutaxiology and teleology proper, 75
the major premise is a primitive and immovable conviction, 75
the minor premise, a working principle of science, 77
it does not prove a personal God, 78, 79
it does not prove unity, eternity, or infinity of God, 79, 80
adds intelligence and volition to the causative power already proved to exist, 80
Telepathy, 1021
Temptation, prevented by God's providence, 423
does not pervert, but confirms, the holy soul, 588, 589
Adam's, Scriptural account of, 582, 583
Adam's, its course and result, 584, 585
Adam's, contrasted with Christ's, 677, 678
Christ's, as possible as that of Adam, 677
aided by limitations of his human intelligence, 677
aided by his susceptibility to all forms of innocent gratification, 677
in wilderness, addressed to desire, 677
in Gethsemane, to fear, 677
Ueberglaube, Aberglaube, Unglaube, appealed to, 677
is always “without sin,”, 677
authors upon, 678
by Satan, negative and positive, 455
Tempter's promise, the, 572
Tendency-theory of Baur, 157-160
Tendency, undeveloped, 847
Terminology, a, needed in progress of a science, 35
Testament New, genuineness of, 146-165
rationalistic theories to explain origin of its gospels, 155-165
its moral system, 177-186
its morality contrasted with that of heathenism, 179-186
Testament, Old, in what sense its works are genuine, 162
how proved, 165-175
alleged errors in quoting or interpreting, 234, 235
Testimony, science assumes faith in, 3
amount of, necessary to prove miracle, 127, 128
in general, 142-144
statements in, may conflict without being false, 227
Tests, does God submit to?, 437
Theologian, characteristics of, 38-41
Theological Encyclopædia, 42
Theology, its definition, 1, 2
its aim, 2
its possibility, 2-15
its necessity, 15-19
its relation to religion, 19-24
rests on God's self-revelation, 25
rests on his revelation in nature, 26
natural and Scriptural, how related, 26-29
rests on Scripture and reason, 29
rationalism hurtful to, 30-31
rests on Scripture and a true mysticism, 31
avoids a false mysticism, 32
accepts history of doctrine as ancillary, 33
declines the combination, Scripture and Romanism, 33, 34
its limitations, 34-36
a perfect system of, impossible, 36, 37
is progressive, 37
its method, 38-51
requisites to its study, 38-41
see [Theologian].
divisions of, 41-44
Biblical, 41
historical, 41
systematic, 41, 42
practical, 42-44
Theology, Systematic, its history, 44
in Eastern church, 44
in Western Church, 44-46
its period of scholasticism, 44, 45
its period of symbolism, 45, 46
its period of criticism and speculation, 46
a list of authorities in, differing from Protestantism, 47
British theology, 47, 48
Baptist theologians, 47
Puritan theologians, 47, 48
Scotch Presbyterian theologians, 48
Methodist theologians, 48
Quaker theologians, 48
English Church theologians, 48
American theology, 48, 49
the Reformed system, 48, 49
the older Calvinism, 49
order in which its subjects may be treated, 49, 50
analytic method in, 49, 50
synthetic method in, 50
text-books in, 50, 51
Theonomy, 83
Theophany, Christ not a mere, 686
“Things,”, 95, 96, 254
Thought, does not go on in the brain, 93
possible without language, 216
intermittent or continuous?, 1002
Three thousand baptized in one day in time of Chrysostom, 934
Thucydides never mentions Socrates, 144
Time, its definition, 276
God not under law of, 276
has objective reality to God, 276
his “one eternal now,” how to be understood, 277
can the human spirit escape the conditions of, 278
authors on “time” and “eternity,”, 278
Torments of wicked, outward, subordinate results and accompaniments of state of soul, 1034
Tradition, and idea of God, 63
cannot long be trusted to give correct evidence, 142
of a “golden age” and matters cognate, 480, 526
Traducianism, its advocates and teaching, 493, 494
best accords with Scripture, 494, 495
favored by analogy of vegetable and animal life, 496
heredities, mental, spiritual, and moral, prove men's souls of human ancestry, 496
does not exclude divine concurrence in the development of the human species, 496
Fathers, who held, 620
Trafalgar, omitted in Napoleon's dispatches, 143
Transcendence, divine, denied by pantheism, 100
taught in Scripture, 102
deism, an exaggeration of, 414
Transgression, a stab at heart of God, 541
not proper translation of 1 John 3:4, 452
its universality directly taught in Scripture, 573
its universality proved in universal need of atonement, regeneration, and repentance, 573
its universality shown in condemnation that rests on all who do not accept Christ, 574
its universality, consistent with passages which ascribe a sort of goodness to some men, 574
its universality proved by history, and individual experience and observation, 574, 575
proved from Christian experience, 576
uniformity of actual transgression, a proof that will is impotent, 611
all moral consequences flowing from, are sanctions of law, 637
Transubstantiation, what?, 965
rests on a false interpretation of Scripture, 965
contradicts the senses, 966
denies completeness of sacrifice of Calvary, 967
externalizes and destroys Christianity, 967, 968
Trees of “life” and “knowledge,”, 526, 527, 583
Trichotomous theory of man's nature, 484-487
Trimurti, Brahman Trinity, 351
Trinitas dualitatem ad unitatem reducit, 338
Trinitatem, I ad Jordanem et videbis, 325
Trinities, heathen, 351
Trinity, renders possible an eternal divine self-contemplation, 262
the immanent love of God understood only in light of, 265
the immanent holiness of God rendered intelligible by doctrine of, 274
has close relations to doctrine of immanent attributes, 275, 336
doctrine of the, 304-352
a truth of revelation only, 304
intimated in O. T., made known in N. T., 304
six main statements concerning, 304
the term ascribed to Tertullian, 304
a designation of four facts, 304
held implicitly, or in solution, by the apostles, 304
took shape in the Athanasian Creed (8th or 9th century), 305
usually connected with “semi-trinitarian” Nicene Creed (325 A. D.), 305
references on doctrine of, 305
implies the recognition in Scripture of three as God, 305-322
presents proofs from N. T., 305-317
presents Father as recognized as God, 305
presents Jesus Christ as recognized as God, 305-315
appeals to Christian experience as confirming the deity of Christ, 313, 314
explains certain passages apparently inconsistent with Christ's deity, 314, 315
allows an order of office and operation consistent with essential oneness and equality, 314, 342
doctrine of, how its construction started, 314
presents the Holy Spirit recognized as God, 315-317
intimations of, in the O. T., 317-322
seemingly alluded to in passages which teach a plurality of some sort in the Godhead, 317-319
seemingly alluded to in passages relating to the Angel of Jehovah, 319
seemingly alluded to in descriptions of Divine Wisdom and Word, 320, 321
owes nothing to foreign sources, 320
seemingly alluded to in descriptions of the Messiah, 321-322
O. T. contains germ of doctrine of, 322
its clear revelation, why delayed?, 322
insists that the three recognized as God are presented in Scripture as distinct persons, 322-326
asserts that this tripersonality of the divine nature is immanent and eternal, 326
it alleges Scriptural proof that the distinctions of personality are eternal, 326
the Sabellian heresy regarding, 327-328
the Arian heresy regarding, 328-330
teaches a tripersonality which is not tritheism, for while the persons are three, the essence is one, 330
how the term “person” is used in, 330, 331
the oneness of essence explained, 331-334
teaches an association which is more than partnership, 331
presents itself as the organism of the deity, 331
permits intercommunion and mutual immanency of persons, 332, 333
teaches equality of the three persons, 334-343
teaches that the titles belong to the persons, 334, 335
employs the personal titles in a qualified sense, 335-340
presents to us life-movement in the Godhead, 336-338
teaches a “generation” that is consistent with equality, 340
teaches a “procession” that is consistent with equality, 340
is inscrutable, 344
all analogies inadequate to represent it, 344
illustrations of, their only use, 345
not self-contradictory, 345
presents faculty and function at highest differentiation, 346
its relations to other doctrines, 347
its acceptance essential to any proper theism, 347
its denial leads to pantheism, 347
essential to any proper revelation, 349
evidence of, in prayer, 349
essential to any proper redemption, 350
effects of its denial on religious life, 350, 351
essential to any proper model for human life, 351
sets law of love before us as eternal, 351
shows divine pattern of receptive life, 351
authors on the doctrine, 351
Trisagion, the, 318
Tritheism, inconsistent with idea of God, 330
Trivialities in Scripture, their use, 217
Truth, God's, what?, 260
immanent, 260
a matter of being, 261
foundation of truth among men, 261
the principle and guarantee of all revelation, 262
not of God's will, but of his being, 262
God's transitive, 288-290
see [Veracity and Faithfulness].
attributed to Christ, 309
attributed to the Holy Spirit, 316
as the efficient cause of regeneration, 817-820
hated by sinner, 817
neither known nor obeyed without a change of the affections, 818
even God cannot make it more true, 819
without God, an abstraction, not a power, 819
Ubi caritas, ibi claritas, 520
Ubi Spiritus, ibi Christus, 333
Ubi tres medici, ibi duo athei, 39
Ubiquity of Christ's human body, 709
relation to Lord's Supper, 968
relation to views of heaven, 1032
Ueberglaube, Aberglaube, Unglaube, the chief avenues of temptation, 677
Uhlhorn, on the “if's” of Tacitus, 989
Ullmann, on the derivation of sapientia, 4
Una navis est jam bonorum omnium, 881
Uncaused cause, the idea of, not from logical inference, but intuitive belief, 74
Unconditioned being, the presupposition of our knowing, 58
Unconscious mental action, 551, 555
Unconscious substance cannot produce self-conscious and free beings, 102
Understanding, the servant of the will, 460
Unicus, as applied to the divine nature, 259
Uniformity of nature, a presumption against miracles, 124
not absolute and universal, 124
could only be asserted on the ground of absolute and universal knowledge, 124
disproved by geology, 124
breaks in, illustrated, 125
final cause is beneath, 125
of volitional action rests on character, 509
of evil choice, implies tendency or determination, 611
of transgression, a demonstration of impotence of will, 611
Unio personalis, 689, 690
Union of the two natures in the one person of Christ, 683-700
moral, between different souls, 799
with Christ, believer's, and man's with Adam, compared, 627
with Christ, believer's, wholly due to God, 781
its relation to regeneration and conversion, 793
doctrine of, 795-808
reasons for its neglect, 795
Scripture representations of, 795-798
represented by building and foundation, 795
represented by marriage union, 795, 796
represented by vine and branch, 796
consistent with individuality, 796
represented by head and members, 796
represented by union of race with Adam, 797
believer is in Christ, 797
Christ is in believer, 797
Father and Son dwell in believer, 797
believer has life by Christ as Christ has life by union with the Father, 797
believers are one through, 797
believers made partakers of divine nature through, 798
by it believer made one spirit with the Lord, 798
nature of, 798-802
not a merely natural union, 799
not a merely moral union, 799
not a union of essence, 799, 800
in it believer most conscious of his personality and power, 800
not mediated by sacraments, 800
an organic union, 800
a vital union, 801
a spiritual union, 801
originated and sustained by Holy Spirit, 801
by virtue of omnipresence the whole Christ with each believer, 281, 704, 801
inscrutable, 801
in what sense mystical, 801
authors on, 802
consequences of, to believer, 802-809
removes the internal obstacle to man's return to God, in the case of his people, 802
involves change in the dominant affection of the soul (Regeneration), 804
is the true “transfusion of blood,”, 804
involves a new exercise of soul's powers in Repentance and Faith (Conversion), 804
this phase of, illustrated by the depuration of Chicago River, 804, 805
with Christ gives to believer legal standing and rights of Christ (Justification), 805
secures to the believer the transforming, assimilating power of Christ's life, for soul and body (Sanctification and Perseverance), 805
does it secure physical miracles in deliverance from fleshly besetments of those who experience it?, 806
brings about a fellowship with Christ, and thus a fellowship of believers with one another here and hereafter (Ecclesiology and Eschatology), 806
secures among Christians the unity not of external organization, but of a common life, 807
gives assurance of salvation, 808
excerpts upon, from noted names in theology, 808
references upon, 808, 809
Unique, the, 244
Unitarianism, derivation of term, 330
its founders, 47
their relation to Arianism, 329
tends to pantheism, 347
fosters lax views of sin, 350
holds to Pelagian views of sin, 597
holds to Socinian views of atonement, 728, 729
Unity of Scripture, 175
Unity of God, 259, 304
consistent with a trinity, 259
Unity of human race, taught in Scripture, 476
lies at foundation of Pauline doctrine of sin and salvation, 476
ground of obligation of brotherhood among men, 476
various arguments for, 477-483
opposed by theorists who propound different centres of creation, 481
opposed on the ground that the physical diversities in the race are inconsistent with a common origin, 481, 482
Universalia, ante and post rem, and in re, 621
Universalism, its error, 1047
Universality of transgression, 573-577
Universals, 621
Universe, regarded as thought, must have had an absolute thinker, 60
its substance cannot be shown to have had a beginning, 73
has its phenomena had a cause within itself (pantheism)?, 73
mind in it, leads us to infer mind in maker, 73
if eternal, yet, as contingent and relative, it only requires an eternal creator, 74
since its infinity cannot be proved, why infer from its perhaps limited existence an infinite creator?, 74
its order and useful collocation may be due to an impersonal intelligence (pantheism), 77
its present harmony proves a will and intelligence equal to its contrivance, 80
facts of, erroneous explanations of, 90-105
not necessary to divine blessedness, 265
“God's ceaseless conversation with his creatures,”, 436
exists for moral and spiritual ends, 436
a harp in which one string, our world, is out of tune, 451, 1033
Unus, as applied to divine nature, 259
Utopia, More's, an adumbration of St. John's City of God, 1031
Vacuum, 279
Vanity, what?, 569
Variation, law of, 470, 491, 492
Variations, are in the divine operation, not in the divine plan, 258
Vedas, 56, 203, 222, 225
Veracity and faithfulness of God, the, his transitive truth, 288, 289
by virtue of, his revelations consist with his being and with each other, 288
by virtue of, he fulfils all his promises expressed or implied, 289
Viæ, employed in determining the divine attributes, 247
Vice, can it be created?, 520
Virgin-birth of Christ, 675-678
Virgin, the Immaculate Conception of, its absurdity, 677
Virtue, 298-303
see [Moral obligation].
Vishnu, incarnations of, 351
Volition, the shadow of the affections, 815
executive, 504
a subordinate, not always determined by fundamental choice, 510, 870
“Voluntary” and “volitional” contrasted, 557
“Voluntas” and “arbitrium” distinguished, 557
Vorsehung, an aspect of providence, 419
Vulgate, 226, 799
“Waters,” the best term in Hebrew to express “fluid mass,”, 395
Weltgeschichte, die, ist das Weltgericht, 1024
Wicked, in the intermediate state, 999, 1000
in intermediate state, under constraint and guard, 999
in intermediate state, in conscious suffering, 999
in intermediate state, under punishment, 1000
in intermediate state, their souls do not sleep, 1000
in the final state, 1033-1056
their final state, in Scriptural figures, 1033
their final state, a summing up statement, 1034
their final state is not annihilation, 1035, 1036
their final state has in it no element of new probation or final restoration, 1039-1043
their final state, one of everlasting punishment, 1044-1046
their final state, a revelation of God's justice, 1046-1051
their final state, a revelation of a benevolence which permits the self-chosen ruin of a few to work for the salvation of the many, 1051-1054
their final state, should be preached with sympathy and solemnity, 1054-1056
Will, free, not under law of physical causation, 26
human, acts on nature without suspending its laws, 121
human, acts initially without means, 122
its power over body, 122
has not the freedom of indifference, 363
an act of pure, unknown to human consciousness, 363, 507
and sensibility, two distinct powers, 363
Christianity gives us more, 440
Holy Spirit emancipates the, 440
defined, 504
determinism of, rejected, 504
and other faculties, 505
element in every act of soul, 505
man is chiefly, 504
the verb has no imperative, 505
and permanent state, 505, 506
slight decisions of, lead to fixation of character, 506
and motives, 506, 507
permanent states influence, 506
not compelled, but persuaded by motive, 506
in choosing between motives, chooses with a motive, namely the motive chosen, 507
and contrary choice, 507, 508
we know causality only as we know, 508
a power of originating action, limited by subjective and social conditions, 508
will, free, chooses between impulses, 508
and responsibility, 509, 510
naturally exercised with a bias, 509
free, gives existence to duty and morality, 510
is defeated in immorality, 511
deterministic theory of, objections to, 511
will does not create force, but directs it, 512
will as great a mystery as the Trinity, 512
references on, 513
evil, the man himself, 555
more than faculty of volitions, 600
its impotence proved by uniformity of transgression, 611
such a decision of, as will justify God in condemning men, when found, 612
a determination of the, prior to individual consciousness—a difficult but fruitful hypothesis, 624
the cause of sin in holy beings, 629
not absolutely as a man's character, 633
character its surest but not its infallible index, 633
man's, does more than express, it may curb, his nature, 633
has permanent states, as well as transient acts, 764
God's action, in conversion, 792, 793
the depraved, has inconceivable power to resist God, 1048
God's, not sole force in universe, 411
God's “revealed” and “secret,” 791
“Will,” and “shall,” as to man's actions, distinguished, 354
Wille and Wilkür, 557
Wisdom, divine, its nature, 286
in O. T., 320
in Apocrypha, 320
Witness of Spirit, 844, 845
Word, divine, the medium and test of spiritual communications, 32
divine, in O. T., 320
Christ, the, 335
Works of God, 371-464
World, final conflagration and rehabilitation, 1015
may be part of the heaven of the saints, 1032, 1033
Worship, defined, 23
its relation to religion, 23
depends on God's glory, 255
final state of righteous one of, 1029, 1030
Wrong, must be punished whether good comes of it or not, 655
“Yea, the” (2 Cor. 1:20) = objective certainty, 14
“Zechariah,” proper reading for “Jeremiah,” in Mat. 27:9, 226
Zoroastrianism, Parseeism, 185, 190, 382