Chapter 70

Enoch, translation of, 658, 994Environment, 426, 1034, 1049Eophyte and Eozoon, 395Epicureanism, 91, 184, 299Error, systems of, suggest organizing superhuman intelligences, 457Errors in Scripture, alleged, 222-236Eschatology, 981-1056Esprit gelé(matter) Schelling's bon mot, 386Essenes, 787Esther, book of, 237, 309“Eternal sin, an,”, 1034, 1048Eternity, 276Ethics, how conditioned, 3Christian and Christian faith inseparable, 636Eucharist, seeSupper, the Lord's.Eutaxiology, 75Eutychians (Monophysites), 672Eve, 525, 526, 676Evidence, principles of, 141-144Evil, 354, 1053Evolution, behind that of our own reason stands the Supreme Reason, 25and revelation constitute nature, 26an, of Scripture as of natural science, 35of ideas, not from sense to nonsense, 64has given man the height fromwhich he can discern stars of moral truth previously hidden below the horizon, 65a process, not a power, 76only a method of God, 76spells purpose, 76awake to ends within the universe, but not to the great end of the universe itself, 76answers objections by showing the development of useful collocations from initial imperfections, 78has reinforced the evidences of intelligence in the universe, 79transfers cause to an immanent rational principle, 79a materialized, logical process, 84of universe inexplicable unless matter is moved from without, 92extension and, being, having thought and will, reveals itself in, 101only another name for Christ, 109views nature as a progressive order consisting of higher levels and phenomena unknown before, 121its principle, the Logos or Divine Reason, 123its continuity that of plan not of force, 128depends on increments of force with persistency of plan, 123irreconcilable with Deism and its distant God, 123the 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, 123implies not theuniformity, butuniversalityof law, 126has successive stages, with new laws coming in, and becoming dominant, 125of Hegel, a fact but fatalistic, 176of human society not primarily intellectual, but religious, 194is developingreverencewith its allied qualities, 194if not recognized in Scripture leads to a denial of its unity, 217of“Truth—evolvable from the whole, evolved at last painfully,”, 218has given us a new Bible—a book which has grown, 224, 230, 231in a progress in prophecy, doctrine and church-polity seen in Paul's epistles, 236not a tale of battle, but a love-story, 264the object of nature, and altruism the object of evolution, 264explains the world as the return of the highest to itself, 266in the idea of holiness and love exhibited in the palæontological[pg 1076]struggle for life and for the life of others, 268, 393is God's omnipresence in time, 282of his own being, God not shut up to a necessary, 287working out a nobler and nobler justice is proof that God is just, 292a method of Christ's operation, 311in 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, 334and gravitation, all the laws of, are the work and manifestation of the present Christ, 337the conception of God in, leads to a Trinitarian conception, 349theological, are the heathen trinities stages in?, 352is a regress terminating in the necessity of a creator, 374a self, of God, so Stoic monism regarded the world, 389implies previous involution, 390assumes initial arrangements containing the possibilities of the order afterwards evolved, 390unable to create something out of nothing, 390the attempt to comprehend the world of experience in terms of fundamental idealistic postulates, 390that ignores freedom of God is pantheistic, 390from the nebula to man, unfolds a Divine Self, 390but a habitual operation of God, 390not an eternal or self-originated process, 391natural selection without teleological factors cannot account for biological, 391and creation, no antagonism between, 391its limits, 392Spencer's definition of, stated and criticized, 392illustrated in progress from Orohippus to horse of the present, 392of inorganic forces and materials, an, in this the source of animate species, yet the Mosaic account of creation not discredited, 392in all forms of energy, higher and lower, dependent directly on will of God, 393the struggle for life to palæontological stages of, the beginning of the sense of right and justice, 268, 393the struggle for the life of others in palæontological stages of, the beginning of altruism, 268, 393the science of, has strengthened teleology, 397its flow constitutes the self-revelation of the Infinite One, 413process of, easier believed in as a divine self-evolution than as a mechanical process, 459of man, physical and psychical, no exception to process of, yet faith in God intact, 465cannot be explained without taking into account the originating agency of God, 465does not make the idea of Creator superfluous, 466theist must accept, if he keep his argument for existence of God from unity of design, 466of music depends on power of transmitting intellectual achievements, 466unintelligible except as immanent God gives new impulses to the process, 470according to Mivart, it can account neither for body or soul of man, 472still incomplete, man is still on all fours, 472an atheistic, a reversion to the savage view, 473theistic, regards human nature as efflux and reflection of the Divine Personality, 473atheistic, satirized, 473a superior intelligence has guided, 473phylogenetic, in the creation of Eve, 525normal, man's will may induce a counter-evolution to, 591the goal of man's, is Christ, 680the derivation of spiritual gifts from the Second Adam consonant with, 681of humanity, the whole, depicted in the Cross and Passion, 716the process by which sons of God are generated, 967Example, Christ did not simply set, 732Exegesis based on trustworthiness of verbal vehicle of inspiration, 216Exercise-system of Hopkins and Emmons, 45, 416, 417, 584, 607, 822Existence of God, seeGod.Ex nihilo nihil fit, 380Experience, 28, 63-65Expiation, representative, recognized among Greeks, 723Ezra, his relation to O. T., 167Fact local, truth universal, 240Facts not to be neglected, because relations are obscure, 36Faculties, mental, man's three, 487[pg 1077]Faith, a higher sort of knowledge, 3physical science rests on, 3never opposed to reason, 3conditioned by holy affection, 3act of integral soul, 4can alone furnish material for a scientific theology, 4not blind, 5itsfiduciaincludesnotitia, 5its place in the Arminian system, 605, 864in a truth, possible in spite of difficulties to us insoluble, 629does not save, but atonement which it accepts, 771saving, is the gift of God, 782an effect, not cause, of election, 784involves repentance, 836defined, 836analyzed, 837an intellectual element (notitia,credere Deum) in, 837must lay hold of a present Christ, 837an emotional element (assensus,credere Deo) in, 837a voluntary element (fiducia,credere in Deum) in, 838self-surrender to good physician, 838the reflection of the Divine knowing and willing in man's finite spirit, 838its most important element, will, 838is a bond between persons, 839appropriates Christ as source of pardon and life, 839its three elements illustrated, 839phrases descriptive of, 839no element in, must be exaggerated at expense of the others, 839views refuted by a proper conception of, 840an act of the affections and will, 840not a purely intellectual state, 841is a moral act, and involves responsibility, 841saving, its general and particular objects, 842is believing in God as far as he has revealed himself, 842,is it ever produced“without a preacher”? 843, 844its ground of faith, the external word, 844its ground of assurance, the Spirit's inward witness, 844it is possible without assurance?, 845necessarily leads to goods works, 846is not to be confounded with love or obedience, 847a work and yet excluded from the category of works, 847instrumental cause of salvation, 847the intermediate factor between undeveloped tendency toward God and developed affection for God, 847must not be confounded with its fruits, 848the actinic ray, 848is susceptible of increase, 848authors on the general subject of, 849why justified by faith rather than other graces?, 864not with the work of Christ a joint cause of justification, 864its relation to justification, 865the mediate cause of sanctification, 872secures righteousness (justification plus sanctification), 873Faithfulness, Divine, 288, 289Fall, Scriptural account of temptation and, 582-585if account of, mythical, yet inspired and profitable, 582reasons for regarding account of, as historical, 582, 583the stages of temptation that preceded, 584, 585how possible to a holy being?, 585, 586incorrect explanations of, 585God not its author, 586was man's free act of revolt from God, 587cannot be explained on grounds of reason, 587was wilful resistance to the inworking God, 587was choice of supreme love to the world and self rather than supreme devotion to God, 587cannot be explained psychologically, 587is an ultimate fact, 587an immanent preference which was first a choice and then an affection, 588God's permission of the temptation preceding, benevolent, 588not Satanic, because not self-originated, 588its temptation objectified in an embodied seducer, an advantage, 588presented no temptation having tendency in itself to lead astray, 588, 589the slightness of the command in, the best test of obedience, 589the command in, was not arbitrary, 589the greatness of the sanction incurred in, had been announced and should have deterred, 590the revelation of a will alienated from God, 590physical death a consequence of, 590brought death at once, 590[pg 1078]mortal effects of the, counteracted by grace, 590death said by some not to be a consequence of the, 591spiritual death, a consequence of, 591arrested the original tendency of man's whole nature to God, 591depraved man's moral and religious nature, 591left him with his will fundamentally inclined to evil, 592darkened the intuition of reason, 592rendered conscience perverse in its judgments, 592terminated man's unrestrained intercourse with God, 592, 593imposed banishment from the garden, 593constituted Adam's posterity sinful, seeImputation.of human nature could only occur in Adam, 629repented of, because apostasy of our common nature, 629all responsible for the one sin of the, as race-sin, 630has depraved human nature, 637has rendered human nature totally unable to do that which is good in God's sight, 640has brought the race under obligation to render satisfaction for self-determined violation of law, 644Fallen condition of man, Romanist and Protestant views of, 521, 522Falsehood, what?, 569Fatalism, 427Fate and the decrees of God, 363Father, God as, seeTrinity.“Father,”how applied to whole Trinity, 333'our,' import, 334Federal theology, 45, 46, 50, 612-616Feeling, 17, 20, 21Fellowship, Christian, not church, 979Fetichism, 56, 532Fiction, the truest, has no heroes, 575Final cause, 44, 52, 60, 62, 75-77Final Things, doctrine of, 981-1056Finality, 75, 76, 78, 79Fishes, the earliest, ganoids large and advanced in type, 470Flesh, 562, 588, 673“Fold,”none under New Dispensation, 807Fons Trinitatis, 341Force, no mental image of, 7not the atom, the real ultimate, 91a property of matter, 91, 96behind all its forms, co-ordinating mind, 95atom a centre of, 96matter a manifestation of, 96, 109expressed in vibrations foundation of all we know of extended world, 96the only, we know is that of our own wills, 96real, lies in the Divine Being, as living, active will, 97matter and mind as respectively external and internal centres of, 98as a function of will, 99, 109, 415, 416all except that of men's free will, is the will of God, 99the product of will, 109in universe works in rational ways and must be product of spirit, 109Christ, the principle of every manifestation of, 109is God with his moral attributes omitted, 259is energy under resistance, 371is energy manifesting itself under self-conditioning or differential forms, 371identified with the Divine Will, theories in which, 412and will are one in God, 412every natural, a generic volition of God, 413a portion of God's, disjoined from him in the free-will of intelligent beings, 414super cuncta, subter cuncta, 414not always Divine will, 416in its various differentations adjusted by God, 436Foreknowledge of God of all future acts directly, 284acts of free will excepted by some, 284, 285denial of the absolute, productive of dread, 285regarded by some as insoluble, 285perhaps explicable by the possibility of an all-embracing present, 285constant teaching of Scripture favors, 285mediate, what?, 285immediate, what?, 285if intuitive, difficulty removed, 285, 357, 362rests on fore-ordination, 356preceded logically by decree, 356, 357of undecreed actuals (scientia media), not possible, 357two kinds of, 358the middle knowledge of Molina, 358of individuals, 781distinguished from fore-ordination, 781Forgiveness, not in nature but in grace, 548cannot be granted unconditionally by public bodies, 766[pg 1079]more than the taking away of penalty, 767optional with God since he makes satisfaction, 767human accorded without atonement, why not divine?, 835defined in personal, ethical and legal terms, 854, 855God's act as Father, 855none in nature, 855does not ensure immediate removal of natural consequences of sin, 855the peculiar characteristic of Christian experience, 856

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, 3Christian and Christian faith inseparable, 636

Ethics, how conditioned, 3

Christian and Christian faith inseparable, 636

Eucharist, seeSupper, 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, 25and revelation constitute nature, 26an, of Scripture as of natural science, 35of ideas, not from sense to nonsense, 64has given man the height fromwhich he can discern stars of moral truth previously hidden below the horizon, 65a process, not a power, 76only a method of God, 76spells purpose, 76awake to ends within the universe, but not to the great end of the universe itself, 76answers objections by showing the development of useful collocations from initial imperfections, 78has reinforced the evidences of intelligence in the universe, 79transfers cause to an immanent rational principle, 79a materialized, logical process, 84of universe inexplicable unless matter is moved from without, 92extension and, being, having thought and will, reveals itself in, 101only another name for Christ, 109views nature as a progressive order consisting of higher levels and phenomena unknown before, 121its principle, the Logos or Divine Reason, 123its continuity that of plan not of force, 128depends on increments of force with persistency of plan, 123irreconcilable with Deism and its distant God, 123the 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, 123implies not theuniformity, butuniversalityof law, 126has successive stages, with new laws coming in, and becoming dominant, 125of Hegel, a fact but fatalistic, 176of human society not primarily intellectual, but religious, 194is developingreverencewith its allied qualities, 194if not recognized in Scripture leads to a denial of its unity, 217of“Truth—evolvable from the whole, evolved at last painfully,”, 218has given us a new Bible—a book which has grown, 224, 230, 231in a progress in prophecy, doctrine and church-polity seen in Paul's epistles, 236not a tale of battle, but a love-story, 264the object of nature, and altruism the object of evolution, 264explains the world as the return of the highest to itself, 266in the idea of holiness and love exhibited in the palæontological[pg 1076]struggle for life and for the life of others, 268, 393is God's omnipresence in time, 282of his own being, God not shut up to a necessary, 287working out a nobler and nobler justice is proof that God is just, 292a method of Christ's operation, 311in 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, 334and gravitation, all the laws of, are the work and manifestation of the present Christ, 337the conception of God in, leads to a Trinitarian conception, 349theological, are the heathen trinities stages in?, 352is a regress terminating in the necessity of a creator, 374a self, of God, so Stoic monism regarded the world, 389implies previous involution, 390assumes initial arrangements containing the possibilities of the order afterwards evolved, 390unable to create something out of nothing, 390the attempt to comprehend the world of experience in terms of fundamental idealistic postulates, 390that ignores freedom of God is pantheistic, 390from the nebula to man, unfolds a Divine Self, 390but a habitual operation of God, 390not an eternal or self-originated process, 391natural selection without teleological factors cannot account for biological, 391and creation, no antagonism between, 391its limits, 392Spencer's definition of, stated and criticized, 392illustrated in progress from Orohippus to horse of the present, 392of inorganic forces and materials, an, in this the source of animate species, yet the Mosaic account of creation not discredited, 392in all forms of energy, higher and lower, dependent directly on will of God, 393the struggle for life to palæontological stages of, the beginning of the sense of right and justice, 268, 393the struggle for the life of others in palæontological stages of, the beginning of altruism, 268, 393the science of, has strengthened teleology, 397its flow constitutes the self-revelation of the Infinite One, 413process of, easier believed in as a divine self-evolution than as a mechanical process, 459of man, physical and psychical, no exception to process of, yet faith in God intact, 465cannot be explained without taking into account the originating agency of God, 465does not make the idea of Creator superfluous, 466theist must accept, if he keep his argument for existence of God from unity of design, 466of music depends on power of transmitting intellectual achievements, 466unintelligible except as immanent God gives new impulses to the process, 470according to Mivart, it can account neither for body or soul of man, 472still incomplete, man is still on all fours, 472an atheistic, a reversion to the savage view, 473theistic, regards human nature as efflux and reflection of the Divine Personality, 473atheistic, satirized, 473a superior intelligence has guided, 473phylogenetic, in the creation of Eve, 525normal, man's will may induce a counter-evolution to, 591the goal of man's, is Christ, 680the derivation of spiritual gifts from the Second Adam consonant with, 681of humanity, the whole, depicted in the Cross and Passion, 716the process by which sons of God are generated, 967

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 theuniformity, butuniversalityof 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 developingreverencewith 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, seeGod.

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, 3physical science rests on, 3never opposed to reason, 3conditioned by holy affection, 3act of integral soul, 4can alone furnish material for a scientific theology, 4not blind, 5itsfiduciaincludesnotitia, 5its place in the Arminian system, 605, 864in a truth, possible in spite of difficulties to us insoluble, 629does not save, but atonement which it accepts, 771saving, is the gift of God, 782an effect, not cause, of election, 784involves repentance, 836defined, 836analyzed, 837an intellectual element (notitia,credere Deum) in, 837must lay hold of a present Christ, 837an emotional element (assensus,credere Deo) in, 837a voluntary element (fiducia,credere in Deum) in, 838self-surrender to good physician, 838the reflection of the Divine knowing and willing in man's finite spirit, 838its most important element, will, 838is a bond between persons, 839appropriates Christ as source of pardon and life, 839its three elements illustrated, 839phrases descriptive of, 839no element in, must be exaggerated at expense of the others, 839views refuted by a proper conception of, 840an act of the affections and will, 840not a purely intellectual state, 841is a moral act, and involves responsibility, 841saving, its general and particular objects, 842is believing in God as far as he has revealed himself, 842,is it ever produced“without a preacher”? 843, 844its ground of faith, the external word, 844its ground of assurance, the Spirit's inward witness, 844it is possible without assurance?, 845necessarily leads to goods works, 846is not to be confounded with love or obedience, 847a work and yet excluded from the category of works, 847instrumental cause of salvation, 847the intermediate factor between undeveloped tendency toward God and developed affection for God, 847must not be confounded with its fruits, 848the actinic ray, 848is susceptible of increase, 848authors on the general subject of, 849why justified by faith rather than other graces?, 864not with the work of Christ a joint cause of justification, 864its relation to justification, 865the mediate cause of sanctification, 872secures righteousness (justification plus sanctification), 873

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

itsfiduciaincludesnotitia, 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, 582-585if account of, mythical, yet inspired and profitable, 582reasons for regarding account of, as historical, 582, 583the stages of temptation that preceded, 584, 585how possible to a holy being?, 585, 586incorrect explanations of, 585God not its author, 586was man's free act of revolt from God, 587cannot be explained on grounds of reason, 587was wilful resistance to the inworking God, 587was choice of supreme love to the world and self rather than supreme devotion to God, 587cannot be explained psychologically, 587is an ultimate fact, 587an immanent preference which was first a choice and then an affection, 588God's permission of the temptation preceding, benevolent, 588not Satanic, because not self-originated, 588its temptation objectified in an embodied seducer, an advantage, 588presented no temptation having tendency in itself to lead astray, 588, 589the slightness of the command in, the best test of obedience, 589the command in, was not arbitrary, 589the greatness of the sanction incurred in, had been announced and should have deterred, 590the revelation of a will alienated from God, 590physical death a consequence of, 590brought death at once, 590[pg 1078]mortal effects of the, counteracted by grace, 590death said by some not to be a consequence of the, 591spiritual death, a consequence of, 591arrested the original tendency of man's whole nature to God, 591depraved man's moral and religious nature, 591left him with his will fundamentally inclined to evil, 592darkened the intuition of reason, 592rendered conscience perverse in its judgments, 592terminated man's unrestrained intercourse with God, 592, 593imposed banishment from the garden, 593constituted Adam's posterity sinful, seeImputation.of human nature could only occur in Adam, 629repented of, because apostasy of our common nature, 629all responsible for the one sin of the, as race-sin, 630has depraved human nature, 637has rendered human nature totally unable to do that which is good in God's sight, 640has brought the race under obligation to render satisfaction for self-determined violation of law, 644

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, seeImputation.

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, seeTrinity.

“Father,”how applied to whole Trinity, 333'our,' import, 334

“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, 7not the atom, the real ultimate, 91a property of matter, 91, 96behind all its forms, co-ordinating mind, 95atom a centre of, 96matter a manifestation of, 96, 109expressed in vibrations foundation of all we know of extended world, 96the only, we know is that of our own wills, 96real, lies in the Divine Being, as living, active will, 97matter and mind as respectively external and internal centres of, 98as a function of will, 99, 109, 415, 416all except that of men's free will, is the will of God, 99the product of will, 109in universe works in rational ways and must be product of spirit, 109Christ, the principle of every manifestation of, 109is God with his moral attributes omitted, 259is energy under resistance, 371is energy manifesting itself under self-conditioning or differential forms, 371identified with the Divine Will, theories in which, 412and will are one in God, 412every natural, a generic volition of God, 413a portion of God's, disjoined from him in the free-will of intelligent beings, 414super cuncta, subter cuncta, 414not always Divine will, 416in its various differentations adjusted by God, 436

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, 284acts of free will excepted by some, 284, 285denial of the absolute, productive of dread, 285regarded by some as insoluble, 285perhaps explicable by the possibility of an all-embracing present, 285constant teaching of Scripture favors, 285mediate, what?, 285immediate, what?, 285if intuitive, difficulty removed, 285, 357, 362rests on fore-ordination, 356preceded logically by decree, 356, 357of undecreed actuals (scientia media), not possible, 357two kinds of, 358the middle knowledge of Molina, 358of individuals, 781distinguished from fore-ordination, 781

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, 548cannot be granted unconditionally by public bodies, 766[pg 1079]more than the taking away of penalty, 767optional with God since he makes satisfaction, 767human accorded without atonement, why not divine?, 835defined in personal, ethical and legal terms, 854, 855God's act as Father, 855none in nature, 855does not ensure immediate removal of natural consequences of sin, 855the peculiar characteristic of Christian experience, 856

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

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