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CONTENTS.
| THEORY FIRST, OR ELECTION TO A SPECIAL AND EXCLUSIVE INTEREST IN THE DEATH OF CHRIST; BEING THE ULTRA-CALVINISTIC THEORY. | |
| LECTURE FIRST. | |
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| Election Shortly Defined | 15 |
| Involves Reprobation | 18 |
| Quotations from CALVIN and CANDLISH | 21 |
| Dr. Candlish and the Confession of faith | 24 |
| This Theory the Source of False Peace | 28 |
| The Glorious Gospel Subverted thereby | 34 |
| What is the Gospel? | 41 |
| LECTURE SECOND. | |
| This Theory opposed to Right Reason | 56 |
| Subversive of FREE GRACE in Justification | 62 |
| Quotations from Dr. WARDLAW and Dr. PAYNE | 64 |
| Quotations from Dr. PAYNE and AND. FULLER | 77 |
| Calvinism allied to Socinianism | 83 |
| xiiLECTURE THIRD. | |
| Calvinism a Deceptive and Insidious System | 88 |
| Its Inconsistency with God’s FOREKNOWLEDGE | 91 |
| A Story related in Bonar’s “Truth and Error” | 94 |
| Quotations from Calvinistic Authorities | 99 |
| Calvinism Identical with Fatalism | 101 |
| Calvinism Subversive of THE WISDOM of God | 115 |
| Calvinism Inconsistent with THE HOLINESS of God and Subversive of Human Responsibility | 115 |
| LECTURE FOURTH. | |
| The Precedency of God’s Will to Man’s Will | 121 |
| Is God’s Will first in Everything?—Sin not Decreed—God has not, “for his own glory, foreordained whatsoever comes to pass”—Bonar’s (Free Church) argument founded on Acts ii. 23; iv. 27, examined | 124 |
| The Sinner alone Responsible for his Salvation | 157 |
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| THEORY SECOND, OR ELECTION TO A SPECIAL AND EXCLUSIVE INTEREST IN THE WORK OF THE SPIRIT; BEING THE MODERATE CALVINISTIC THEORY. | |
| LECTURE FIFTH. | |
| Election to a Special Influence | 163 |
| This Theory Subversive of the Unity of the Godhead | 174 |
| xiiiLECTURE SIXTH. | |
| The Necessity of Divine Influence to enable the Sinner to believe, denied by this Theory of Election | 182 |
| LECTURE SEVENTH. | |
| The Necessity of Divine Influence proved | 190 |
| Semi-orthodox Preaching exemplified | 199 |
| Natural and Moral Inability examined | 206 |
| LECTURE EIGHTH. | |
| The Special Influence Theory disproved by Scripture testimony respecting the NATURE of the Spirit’s Work | 226 |
| Divine Drawing, Divine Teaching | 227 |
| Divine Influence may be Resisted | 232 |
| “The Spirits in Prison,” | 233 |
| The Murderers of Stephen | 236 |
| An Imaginary Influence Common to all Men, but which cannot Save any Soul | 239 |
| The Spirit works by Means | 242 |
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| THEORY THIRD, OR THE BIBLE DOCTRINE OF ELECTION EXHIBITED. | |
| LECTURE NINTH. | |
| The Scriptural Import of the term “ELECTION” | 246 |
| xivThe State of Things naturally and necessarily presupposed by Election | 252 |
| GOD ALONE the Agent in Election | 254 |
| THE GLORY OF GOD ALONE the grand ultimate object of Election | 255 |
| The Minor or Subordinate Ends which God accomplishes by Election | 256 |
| The Distinctive Nature of Election | 259 |
| The Means whereby God is pleased to Elect or Separate the Sinner for himself | 262 |
| The Duty of every Man to make his “calling and election sure,” | 266 |
| Importance of Holiness | 274 |
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| APPENDIX. | |
| Concerning the “Fate” of the Ancients; from the Latin of Justus Lipsius | 283 |
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