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CONTENTS.
LECTURE I. | |
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MORAL GOVERNMENT. | |
Definition of the term law. — Distinction between physical and moral law. — The essential attributes of moral law. — Subjectivity. — Objectivity. — Liberty, as opposed to necessity. — Fitness. — Universality. — Impartiality. — Practicability. — Independence. — Immutability. — Unity. — Expediency. — Exclusiveness | 1 |
LECTURE II. | |
MORAL GOVERNMENT — Continued. | |
Definition of the term government. — Distinction between moral and physical government. — The fundamental reason of moral government. — Whose right it is to govern. — What is implied in the right to govern. — The limits of this right. — Moral obligation. — The conditions of moral obligation | 6 |
LECTURE III. | |
MORAL OBLIGATION. | |
Man a subject of moral obligation. — Extent of moral obligation | 19 |
LECTURE IV. | |
FOUNDATION OF MORAL OBLIGATION. | |
What is intended by the foundation of moral obligation. — Self-evident principles. — That the sovereign will of God is not the foundation of moral obligation. — The theory of Paley. — The utilitarian philosophy | 27 |
LECTURE V. | |
FOUNDATION OF MORAL OBLIGATION. FALSE THEORIES. | |
Right as the foundation of obligation | 38 |
LECTURE VI. | |
FOUNDATION OF MORAL OBLIGATION. FALSE THEORIES. | |
The goodness or moral excellence of God as the foundation of obligation | 49 |
xviLECTURE VII. | |
FOUNDATION OF MORAL OBLIGATION. FALSE THEORIES. | |
Moral order as the foundation of obligation. — The nature and relations of moral beings as the true foundation of obligation. — Moral obligation as founded in the idea of duty. — The complexity of the foundation of obligation. — Summing up | 64 |
LECTURE VIII. | |
FOUNDATION OF MORAL OBLIGATION. PRACTICAL BEARINGS OF THE DIFFERENT THEORIES. | |
The theory that regards the sovereign will of God as the foundation of moral obligation. — The theory of the selfish school. — The natural and necessary results of utilitarianism. — Practical bearings and tendency of rightarianism. — The practical bearings of the true theory of the foundation of obligation | 80 |
LECTURE IX. | |
UNITY OF MORAL ACTION. | |
What constitutes obedience to moral law. — Obedience cannot be partial. — Possible suppositions. — Objections considered | 95 |
LECTURE X. | |
OBEDIENCE ENTIRE. | |
Nothing virtue but obedience to the law of God. — No rule of duty but moral law: Condition of justification | 115 |
LECTURE XI. | |
OBEDIENCE TO THE MORAL LAW. | |
What is not implied in entire obedience to the law of God | 124 |
LECTURE XII. | |
ATTRIBUTES OF LOVE. | |
Certain facts revealed in consciousness. — Attributes of that love which constitutes obedience to the law. — Voluntariness. — Liberty. — Intelligence. — Virtuousness. — Disinterestedness. — Impartiality. — Universality | 135 |
LECTURE XIII. | |
ATTRIBUTES OF LOVE — Continued. | |
Efficiency. — Complacency. — Opposition to sin. — Compassion | 145 |
xviiLECTURE XIV. | |
ATTRIBUTES OF LOVE — Continued. | |
Mercy. — Justice. — Veracity | 157 |
LECTURE XV. | |
ATTRIBUTES OF LOVE — Continued. | |
Patience. — Meekness. — Self-denial. — Condescension. — Stability. — Holiness, or Purity | 166 |
LECTURE XVI. | |
DISOBEDIENCE TO MORAL LAW. | |
What disobedience to moral law cannot consist in. — What disobedience to moral law must consist in | 180 |
LECTURE XVII. | |
ATTRIBUTES OF SELFISHNESS. | |
Voluntariness. — Liberty. — Intelligence. — Unreasonableness. — Interestedness. — Partiality. — Efficiency. — Opposition to benevolence or to virtue. — Cruelty. — Injustice | 183 |
LECTURE XVIII. | |
ATTRIBUTES OF SELFISHNESS — Continued. | |
Falsehood, or lying. — Pride. — Intemperance. — Total moral depravity | 196 |
LECTURE XIX. | |
SANCTIONS OF MORAL LAW. | |
What constitutes the sanctions of law. — In what light sanctions are to be regarded. — Duration of the penal sanctions of the law of God | 208 |
LECTURE XX. | |
HUMAN GOVERNMENT. | |
Me ultimate end of God in Creation. — Providential and moral governments indispensable to the highest good of the universe. — Human governments a necessity of human nature. — This necessity will continue as long as human beings exist in this world. — Human governments are plainly recognized in the Bible as a part of the moral government of God. — Objections answered. — The limits of the right of government | 214 |
xviiiLECTURE XXI. | |
HUMAN GOVERNMENT — Continued. | |
No form of civil government universally obligatory. — Revolutions. — In what cases human legislation is valid, and in what cases it is null and void. — The rights and duties of governments and subjects in relation to the execution of the penalties of law | 222 |
LECTURE XXII. | |
MORAL DEPRAVITY. | |
Definition. — Distinction between physical and moral depravity. — Mankind both physically and morally depraved. — Moral depravity of mankind universal. — Moral depravity total | 228 |
LECTURE XXIII. | |
MORAL DEPRAVITY — Continued. | |
Proper method of accounting for moral depravity. — Dr. 'Woods' view of physical and moral depravity examined. — Standards of the Presbyterian Church examined | 235 |
LECTURE XXIV. | |
MORAL DEPRAVITY — Continued. | |
Further arguments in support of the position that human nature is in itself sinful. — The proper method of accounting for moral depravity. — Summary of the truth on this subject — Remarks | 245 |
LECTURE XXV. | |
ATONEMENT. | |
Established governmental principles. — The term atonement. — Affirmations of reason upon the subject. — The fact of atonement. — Christ's obedience did not constitute the atonement. — The atonement not a commercial transaction. — The atonement a satisfaction of public justice | 258 |
LECTURE XXVI. | |
EXTENT OF ATONEMENT. | |
For whose benefit the atonement was intended. — Objections answered | 274 |
LECTURE XXVII. | |
REGENERATION. | |
The common distinction between regeneration and conversion. — The assigned reasons for this distinction. — Objections to this distinction. — What regeneration xixis. — The universal necessity of regeneration. — Agencies employed in regeneration. — Instrumentalities employed in the work. — The subject both passive and active. — What is implied in regeneration | 282 |
LECTURE XXVIII. | |
REGENERATION — Continued. | |
Different theories of regeneration examined. — The taste scheme. — The divine efficiency scheme. — The susceptibility scheme. — Theory of a divine moral suasion. — Objections to this theory. — Remarks | 291 |
LECTURE XXIX. | |
EVIDENCES OF REGENERATION. | |
Wherein saints and sinners may agree. — Remarks | 300 |
LECTURE XXX. | |
EVIDENCES OF REGENERATION — Continued. | |
Wherein saints and sinners must differ | 309 |
LECTURE XXXI. | |
NATURAL ABILITY. | |
The Edwardean notion of ability and of natural inability. — Natural ability identical with freedom or liberty of will. — The human will free. — Moral inability according to the Edwardean school. — This distinction between natural and moral inability nonsensical. — Fundamental error of the Edwardean school on the subject of ability. — Another scheme of inability | 320 |
LECTURE XXXII. | |
GRACIOUS ABILITY. | |
What is intended by the term. — This doctrine absurd. — In what sense a gracious ability is possible | 341 |
LECTURE XXXIII. | |
THE NOTION OF INABILITY. | |
Proper mode of accounting for it | 353 |
LECTURE XXXIV. | |
REPENTANCE AND IMPENITENCE. | |
What repentance is not, and what it is. — What is implied in it. — What impenitence is not. — What it is. — Some things that are implied in it. — Some evidences of ft | 364 |
xxLECTURE XXXV. | |
FAITH AND UNBELIEF. | |
What evangelical faith is not. — What it is. — What is implied in it. — What unbelief is not. — What it is. — What is implied in it. — Conditions of both faith and unbelief. — The guilt of unbelief. — Consequences of both faith and unbelief | 373 |
LECTURE XXXVI. | |
JUSTIFICATION. | |
What justification is not.—What it is. — Conditions of justification. — Foundation of justification | 382 |
LECTURE XXXVII. | |
SANCTIFICATION. | |
Some points that have been settled. — Definition of terms. — The real question. — Entire sanctification attainable in this life | 402 |
LECTURE XXXVIII. | |
SANCTIFICATION. | |
Paul entirely sanctified | 423 |
LECTURE XXXIX. | |
SANCTIFICATION. | |
Conditions of its attainment. — Relations of Christ to the soul | 433 |
LECTURE XL. | |
SANCTIFICATION. | |
Objections answered | 448 |
LECTURE XLI. | |
SANCTIFICATION. | |
Objections continued | 462 |
LECTURE XLII. | |
SANCTIFICATION. | |
Remarks | 472 |
xxiLECTURE XLIII. | |
Election | 481 |
LECTURE XLIV. | |
Reprobation | 499 |
LECTURE XLV. | |
Divine Sovereignty | 515 |
LECTURE XLVI. | |
Purposes of God | 524 |
LECTURE XLVII. | |
PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS. | |
The different kinds of certainty. — What is not intended by the perseverance of the saints | 544 |
LECTURE XLVIII. | |
PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS. | |
The doctrine proved | 554 |
LECTURE XLIX. | |
PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS. | |
Further proof | 563 |
LECTURE L. | |
PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS. | |
Objections considered | 585 |
LECTURE LI. | |
PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS. | |
Further objections | 605 |
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