Chapter 77

Remorse, perhaps an element in Christ's suffering, 769Reparative goodness of God in nature, 113Repentance, more for sin than sins, 555the gift of God, 782described, 832contains an intellectual element, 832contains an emotional element, 832, 833contains a voluntary element, 833, 834implies free-will, 834Romish view, 834wholly an inward act, 834manifested by fruits of repentance, 835a negative and not a positive means of salvation, 835if true, is in conjunction with faith, 836accompanies true faith, 836Reprobation, 355Rerum natura Dei voluntas est, 119Respice,aspice,prospiceof Bernard applied to prophet's function, 710Responsibility for whatever springs from will, 509for inherited moral evil, its ground, 509is special help of Spirit essential to? 603, 604for a sinful nature which one did not personally originate, a fact, 629none for immediate heredities, 630for belief, authors on, 841Restoration of all human beings, 1039-1044Resurrection, an event not within the realm of nature, 118of Christ, the central and sufficient evidence of Christianity, 138of Christ, dilemma for those who deny, 130of Christ, Strauss fails to explain belief in, 157of Christ, attested by epistles regarded as genuine by Baur, 160of Christ, Renan's view of, 160, 161Christ's argument for, Matt. 22:32, 232, 996, 1018[pg 1105]attributed to Christ, 310attributed to Holy Spirit, 316of Christ, angel present at, 483of Christ, gave proof that penalty of sin was exhausted, 657a stage in Christ's exaltation, 707proclaimed Christ as perfected and glorified man, 708of Christ, the time of his justification, 762secured to believer by union with Christ, 805, 806, 867relation to regeneration, 824sanctification completed at the, 874of Christ and of the believer, Baptism a symbol of, 940-945implied in symbolism of Lord's Supper, 963, 964Christ's body, an object that may be worshiped, 968an event preparing for the kingdom of God, 981allusions to, in O. T., 995of Christ, the only certain proof of immortality, 997perfect joy or misery subsequent to, 1002Scriptures describing a spiritual, 1015Scriptures describing a physical, 1015art and post-resurrection possibilities, 1016personality in, being indestructible, takes to itself a body, 1016Christ's body in, an open question, 1016an exegetical objection to, 1016“of the body,”the phrase not in N. T., 1016receive a“spiritual body”in, 1016, 1017the indwelling of the Holy Spirit secures preservation of body in, 1017the believer's, as literal and physical as Christ's, 1018literal, to be suitable to events which accompany, 1018the physical connection between old and new body in, not unscientific, 1019the oneness of the body in, and our present body, rests on two things, 1020the body in, though not absolutely the same, will be identical with the present, 1020, 1021the spiritual body in, will complete rather than confine, the activities of spirit, 1021, 1022four principles should influence our thinking about, 1022, 1023authors on the subject in departments and entirety, 1023Revelation, of such a nature as to make scientific theology possible, 11-15Revelation in nature requires supplementing, 26, 27God submits to limitations of, which are largely those of theology, 34-36how regarded in“period of criticism and speculation,”, 46the Scriptures a, from God, 111-242reasons for expecting from God a, 111-114psychology shows that the intellectual and moral nature of man needs a, 111, 112history shows that man needs a, 112what we know of God's nature leads to hope of a, 112, 113a priorireasons for expecting, 113, 114marks of the expected, 114-117its substance, 114its method, 114-116will have due attestation, 116, 117attended by miracles, 117-134attested by prophecy, 134-141principles of historical evidence entering into proof of, 141-144Scripture, 175its connection with inspiration and illumination, 196, 197Revenge, what?, 569“Reversion to type”never occurs in man, 411Rewards, earthly, appealed to in O. T., 230proceed from goodness of God, 290, 293not bestowed by justice or righteousness, 293goodness to creatures, righteousness to Christ, 293are motives, not sanctions, 535Right, abstract, not ground of moral obligations, 299God is self-willing, 338based on arbitrary will is not right, 338based on passive nature, is not right, 338as being is Father, 338as willing is Son, 338Righteousness of God, what?, 290holiness in its mandatory aspect, 291its meaning in 2 Cor. 5:21, 760demands punishment of sin, 764is justification and sanctification, 873Romanism, and Scripture, 33, 34a mystical element in, 33it places church before the Bible, 33would keep men in perpetual childhood, 33, 34Sabbath commemorates God's act of creation, 408made at creation applies to man always and everywhere, 408recognized in Assyria and Babylonia, as far back as Accadian times before Abraham, 408was not abrogated by our Lord or his apostles, 409[pg 1106]upon, 409Sabbath, Christ's example and apostolic sanction have transferred it from seventh to first day of week, 409Justin Martyr on, 410authors on, 410Sabellianism, 327, 328Sacrifice, 722-728what it is not, 722, 723its true import, 723, 724pagan and Semitic, its implications, 723, 724in the legend of Æschylus, 723of the Passover, H. C. Trumbull's views of, 723its theocratical and spiritual offices, 724of O. T., when rightly offered, what implied in, 725, 726cannot present a formal divine institution, 726how Abel's differed from Cain's, 727the terminology of O. T. regarding, needful to correct interpretation of N. T. usage regarding atonement of Christ, 727differing views as to significance of, 728Sacrifices, Jewish, a tentative scheme of, 725, 726Saints, prayer to, 775how intercessors?, 775as applied to believers, 880Sanctification, related to regeneration and justification, 862, 863definition of, 869what implied in definition of, 869, 870explanations and Scripture proof of, 870-875a work of God, 870a continuous process, 871distinguished from regeneration, 871shown in intelligent and voluntary activity of believer, 871, 872the agency employed in, the indwelling Spirit of Christ, 872its mediate or instrumental cause is faith, 872the object of this instrumental faith is Christ himself, 873measured by strength of faith, 873influenced by lack of persistency in using means of growth, 874completed in life to come, 874erroneous views of, 875-881the Antinomian view, 875-877the Perfectionist view, 877-881Sanctify, its twofold meaning, 880Satan, his personality, 447not a collective term for all evil beings, 447various literary conceptions of, 447meaning of term, 454opposed by Holy Spirit, 454his temptations, 455has access to human mind, 455may influence through physical organism, 455“delivering to,”457was specially active during earthly ministry of Christ, 458his power limited, 458the idea of his fall not self-contradictory, 460not irrational to suppose that by a single act he could change his nature, 460present passion may lead a wise being to enter on a foolish course, 460that God should create and uphold evil spirits no more inconsistent with benevolence than similar action towards evil men, 461a ganglionic centre of an evil system, 461the doctrine of, if given up, leads to laxity in administration of justice, 462as tool and slave of, humanity is indeed degraded, but was not always, nor needs to be, 462the fall of, uncaused from without, 585like Adam, sins under the best circumstances, 588permitted to divide the guilt with man that man might not despair, 588grows in cunning and daring, 1037Satisfaction to an immanent demand of divine holiness rendered by Christ's obedience and suffering, 713, 723by substitution founded on incorporation, 723and forgiveness not mutually exclusive because the judge makes satisfaction to his own violated holiness, 767penal and pecuniary, 767sinner's own act, according to Romish view, 834Scholasticism and Scholastics, 44, 45, 265, 268, 443Science, defined, 2its aim, 2on what its possibility is grounded, 2requires a knowledge of more than phenomena, 6existence of a personal God, its necessary datum, 60Scientia media, simplicis intelligentiæ, visionis, 358Scientific unity, desire for, its influence, 90Scioandconscio, 500Scripture and nature, 26[pg 1107]and rationalism, 29-31contains nothing repugnant to a properly conditioned and enlightened reason, 29and mysticism, 31, 32and Romanism, 33, 34knowledge of, incomplete, 35topics on which silent, 72supernatural character of its teaching, 175its moral and religious ideas uncontradicted and unsuperseded, 175its supernaturally secured unity, 176Christ testifies to its supernatural character, 189result of its propagation, 191how interpreted?, 217authors differ, divine mind one, 217the Christian rule of faith and practice, 218contains no scientific untruth, 224not a code of practical action, but an enunciation of principles, 545Scriptures, the, a revelation from God, 111-242work of one God, and so organically articulated (Scripture), 217why so many interpretations of?, 223, 224a rule in their interpretation, 1011“Sealing,”, 831, 872Seals, in Revelation, 1010Selection, natural, without teleological factors, its inadequacy, 391is it in any sense thecauseof the origin of species?, 391it has probably increased the rapidity of development, 391, 392or“survival of the fittest,”how suggested?, 403defined, 470is partially true, 470it gives no account of the origin of substance or variations, 470not the savior of the fittest, but the destroyer of the failures, 470facts that it cannot explain, 470, 471nor artificial has produced a new species, 471Self-limitation, divine, 9, 126, 255Selfishness, the essence of sin, 567cannot be resolved into simpler elements, 568forms in which it manifests itself, 568, 569of unregenerate, the substitution of a lower for a higher end, 570Sentimentality, 979“Signality,”in miracle, 118Sin, God the author of free beings who are the authors of, 365the decree to permit not efficient, 365its permission a difficulty of all theistic systems, 366its permission, how not to be explained, 366its permission, how it may be partially explained, 366the problem of, one of four at present not to be completely solved, 366, 367observations from many sources aiming to throw light on the existence of moral evil, 367, 368man's, as suggested from without, perhaps the mitigating circumstance that allows of his redemption, 462in what sense a nature?, 518effect of first, not a weakening but a perversion of human nature, 521the first did more than despoil man of a special gift of grace, 521or man's state of apostasy, 533-664its nature, 549-573defined, 549Old and New School views regarding, their difference and approximation, 549, 550as a state, some psychological notes explanatory of, 550, 551as a state is counteracted by an immanent divine power which leads towards salvation, 551“total depravity”as descriptive of, an out-grown phrase, 552as act of transgression and disposition or state, proved from Scripture, 552-554the words which describe, applicable to dispositions and states, 552N. T. descriptions of, give prominence to states and dispositions, 552, 553and moral evil in the thoughts, affections, and heart, 553is name given to a state which originated wrong desires, 553is represented as existing in soul prior to consciousness of it, 553a permanent power or reigning principle, 553Mosaic sacrifices for sins other than mere act, 554universally attributed to disposition or state, 554attributed to outward act only when such act is symptomatic of inward state, 554if it tend from act to a state, regarded as correspondingly blameworthy, 554in an individual condemned though it cannot be traced back to a conscious originating act, 554, 555when it becomes fixed and dominant moral corruption, meets special disapprobation, 555[pg 1108]regarded by the Christian as a manifestation of subconscious depravity of nature, 555repented of, principally as depravity of nature, 555rather than“sins”repented of by Christians advanced in spiritual culture; a conspectus of quotations to prove this, 555-557its definition as 'the voluntary transgression of known law' discussed, 557-559is not always a distinct and conscious volition, 557intention aggravates, but is not essential to, 558knowledge aggravates, but is not essential to, 558ability to fulfil the law, not essential to, 558definition of, 558, 559its essential principle, 559-573is not sensuousness, 559-563is not finiteness, 563-566is selfishness, 567-573is universal, 573-582committed by every human being, arrived at maturity, 573its universality set forth in Scripture, 573, 574its universality proved from history, 574its universality proved from Christian experience, 576the outcome of a corrupt nature possessed by every human being, 577is act or disposition referred to a corrupt nature, 577rests on men who are called in Scripture 'children of wrath,', 578its penalty, death, visits those who have never exercised personal or conscious choice, 579its universality proved from reason, 579, 580testimony of great thinkers regarding, 580-582its origin in the personal act of Adam, 582-593the origin of the sinful nature whence it comes is beyond the investigations of reason, 582Scriptural account of its origin, 582-585Adam's, its essential nature, 587of Adam in resisting inworking God, 587an immanent preference of the world, 587not to be accounted for psychologically, 587the external temptation to first sin a benevolent permission, 588self-originated, Satanic, 588the first temptation to, had no tendency to lead astray, 588the first, though in itself small, a revelation of will thoroughly alienated from God, 590consequences of original, as respects Adam, 590-593physical death, a consequence of his first, 590, 591spiritual death, a consequence of his first, 591, 592exclusion from God's presence, a consequence of his first, 592banishment from the Garden, a consequence of man's first, 593the, of our first parents constituted their posterity sinners, 593two insistent questions regarding the first, and the Scriptural answer, 593imputation of, its true meaning, 594original, its meaning, 594man's relations to moral law extend beyond conscious and actual, 595God's moral government recognizes race-sin, 595actual, more guilty than original, 596no man condemned for original, alone, 596, 664the only ground of responsibility for race-sin, 596original, its correlate, 596imputation of Adam's, 597-637seeImputation.Pelagian theory of the imputation of, 597-601Arminian theory of the imputation of, 601-606New School theory of the imputation of, 606-612Federal theory of the imputation of, 612-616Mediate theory of the imputation of, 616-619Augustinian theory of the imputation of, 619-637table of theories of imputation of, 628apart from, and prior to, consciousness, 629conscience and Scripture attest that we are responsible for our unborn tendency to, 629as our nature, rightly punishable with resulting sin, 632reproductive, each reproduction increasing guilt and punishment, 633each man guilty of personal, which expresses more than original depravity of nature, 633is self-perpetuating, 633is self-isolating, 634the nature, and sins its expression, 635[pg 1109]as Adam's, ruins, so Christ's obedience saves, 635consequences of, to Adam's posterity, 637-664depravity a consequence of Adam's, 637-640in nature, as“total depravity,”considered, 637-640total inability a consequence of Adam's, 640-644guilt a consequence of Adam's, 644-652penalty, a consequence of Adam's, 652-660infants in a state of, 661venial and mortal, 648of nature and personal transgression, 648, 649of ignorance and of knowledge, 649of infirmity and of presumption, 649, 650of incomplete and final obduracy, 650-652unto death, considered, 650-652against Holy Spirit, why unpardonable, 651, 652penalty of, considered, 652-660infants in a state of, 661Christ free from hereditary and actual, 676-678Christ responsible for human, 759Christ responsible for Adam's, 759Christ as great Penitent confesses race-sin, 760Christ, how made to be, 760-763a pretermission of, justified in cross, 772does not condemn, but the failure to ask pardon for it, 856judged and condemned on Calvary, 860future, the virtual pardon of, 867“dwelling,”and“reigning,”, 869, 870expelled by bringing in Christ, 873does not most sympathize with sin, 1028hinders intercourse with other worlds, 1033“eternal,”, 1033made the means of displaying God's glory, 1038chosen in spite of infinite motives to the contrary, 1040

Remorse, perhaps an element in Christ's suffering, 769

Reparative goodness of God in nature, 113

Repentance, more for sin than sins, 555the gift of God, 782described, 832contains an intellectual element, 832contains an emotional element, 832, 833contains a voluntary element, 833, 834implies free-will, 834Romish view, 834wholly an inward act, 834manifested by fruits of repentance, 835a negative and not a positive means of salvation, 835if true, is in conjunction with faith, 836accompanies true faith, 836

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,prospiceof Bernard applied to prophet's function, 710

Responsibility for whatever springs from will, 509for inherited moral evil, its ground, 509is special help of Spirit essential to? 603, 604for a sinful nature which one did not personally originate, a fact, 629none for immediate heredities, 630for belief, authors on, 841

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, 118of Christ, the central and sufficient evidence of Christianity, 138of Christ, dilemma for those who deny, 130of Christ, Strauss fails to explain belief in, 157of Christ, attested by epistles regarded as genuine by Baur, 160of Christ, Renan's view of, 160, 161Christ's argument for, Matt. 22:32, 232, 996, 1018[pg 1105]attributed to Christ, 310attributed to Holy Spirit, 316of Christ, angel present at, 483of Christ, gave proof that penalty of sin was exhausted, 657a stage in Christ's exaltation, 707proclaimed Christ as perfected and glorified man, 708of Christ, the time of his justification, 762secured to believer by union with Christ, 805, 806, 867relation to regeneration, 824sanctification completed at the, 874of Christ and of the believer, Baptism a symbol of, 940-945implied in symbolism of Lord's Supper, 963, 964Christ's body, an object that may be worshiped, 968an event preparing for the kingdom of God, 981allusions to, in O. T., 995of Christ, the only certain proof of immortality, 997perfect joy or misery subsequent to, 1002Scriptures describing a spiritual, 1015Scriptures describing a physical, 1015art and post-resurrection possibilities, 1016personality in, being indestructible, takes to itself a body, 1016Christ's body in, an open question, 1016an exegetical objection to, 1016“of the body,”the phrase not in N. T., 1016receive a“spiritual body”in, 1016, 1017the indwelling of the Holy Spirit secures preservation of body in, 1017the believer's, as literal and physical as Christ's, 1018literal, to be suitable to events which accompany, 1018the physical connection between old and new body in, not unscientific, 1019the oneness of the body in, and our present body, rests on two things, 1020the body in, though not absolutely the same, will be identical with the present, 1020, 1021the spiritual body in, will complete rather than confine, the activities of spirit, 1021, 1022four principles should influence our thinking about, 1022, 1023authors on the subject in departments and entirety, 1023

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, 27God submits to limitations of, which are largely those of theology, 34-36how regarded in“period of criticism and speculation,”, 46the Scriptures a, from God, 111-242reasons for expecting from God a, 111-114psychology shows that the intellectual and moral nature of man needs a, 111, 112history shows that man needs a, 112what we know of God's nature leads to hope of a, 112, 113a priorireasons for expecting, 113, 114marks of the expected, 114-117its substance, 114its method, 114-116will have due attestation, 116, 117attended by miracles, 117-134attested by prophecy, 134-141principles of historical evidence entering into proof of, 141-144Scripture, 175its connection with inspiration and illumination, 196, 197

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 priorireasons 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., 230proceed from goodness of God, 290, 293not bestowed by justice or righteousness, 293goodness to creatures, righteousness to Christ, 293are motives, not sanctions, 535

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, 299God is self-willing, 338based on arbitrary will is not right, 338based on passive nature, is not right, 338as being is Father, 338as willing is Son, 338

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?, 290holiness in its mandatory aspect, 291its meaning in 2 Cor. 5:21, 760demands punishment of sin, 764is justification and sanctification, 873

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, 34a mystical element in, 33it places church before the Bible, 33would keep men in perpetual childhood, 33, 34

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, 408made at creation applies to man always and everywhere, 408recognized in Assyria and Babylonia, as far back as Accadian times before Abraham, 408was not abrogated by our Lord or his apostles, 409[pg 1106]upon, 409

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, 409Justin Martyr on, 410authors on, 410

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, 722-728what it is not, 722, 723its true import, 723, 724pagan and Semitic, its implications, 723, 724in the legend of Æschylus, 723of the Passover, H. C. Trumbull's views of, 723its theocratical and spiritual offices, 724of O. T., when rightly offered, what implied in, 725, 726cannot present a formal divine institution, 726how Abel's differed from Cain's, 727the terminology of O. T. regarding, needful to correct interpretation of N. T. usage regarding atonement of Christ, 727differing views as to significance of, 728

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, 775how intercessors?, 775as applied to believers, 880

Saints, prayer to, 775

how intercessors?, 775

as applied to believers, 880

Sanctification, related to regeneration and justification, 862, 863definition of, 869what implied in definition of, 869, 870explanations and Scripture proof of, 870-875a work of God, 870a continuous process, 871distinguished from regeneration, 871shown in intelligent and voluntary activity of believer, 871, 872the agency employed in, the indwelling Spirit of Christ, 872its mediate or instrumental cause is faith, 872the object of this instrumental faith is Christ himself, 873measured by strength of faith, 873influenced by lack of persistency in using means of growth, 874completed in life to come, 874erroneous views of, 875-881the Antinomian view, 875-877the Perfectionist view, 877-881

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, 447not a collective term for all evil beings, 447various literary conceptions of, 447meaning of term, 454opposed by Holy Spirit, 454his temptations, 455has access to human mind, 455may influence through physical organism, 455“delivering to,”457was specially active during earthly ministry of Christ, 458his power limited, 458the idea of his fall not self-contradictory, 460not irrational to suppose that by a single act he could change his nature, 460present passion may lead a wise being to enter on a foolish course, 460that God should create and uphold evil spirits no more inconsistent with benevolence than similar action towards evil men, 461a ganglionic centre of an evil system, 461the doctrine of, if given up, leads to laxity in administration of justice, 462as tool and slave of, humanity is indeed degraded, but was not always, nor needs to be, 462the fall of, uncaused from without, 585like Adam, sins under the best circumstances, 588permitted to divide the guilt with man that man might not despair, 588grows in cunning and daring, 1037

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, 723by substitution founded on incorporation, 723and forgiveness not mutually exclusive because the judge makes satisfaction to his own violated holiness, 767penal and pecuniary, 767sinner's own act, according to Romish view, 834

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, 2its aim, 2on what its possibility is grounded, 2requires a knowledge of more than phenomena, 6existence of a personal God, its necessary datum, 60

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

Scioandconscio, 500

Scripture and nature, 26[pg 1107]and rationalism, 29-31contains nothing repugnant to a properly conditioned and enlightened reason, 29and mysticism, 31, 32and Romanism, 33, 34knowledge of, incomplete, 35topics on which silent, 72supernatural character of its teaching, 175its moral and religious ideas uncontradicted and unsuperseded, 175its supernaturally secured unity, 176Christ testifies to its supernatural character, 189result of its propagation, 191how interpreted?, 217authors differ, divine mind one, 217the Christian rule of faith and practice, 218contains no scientific untruth, 224not a code of practical action, but an enunciation of principles, 545

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, 111-242work of one God, and so organically articulated (Scripture), 217why so many interpretations of?, 223, 224a rule in their interpretation, 1011

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, 391is it in any sense thecauseof the origin of species?, 391it has probably increased the rapidity of development, 391, 392or“survival of the fittest,”how suggested?, 403defined, 470is partially true, 470it gives no account of the origin of substance or variations, 470not the savior of the fittest, but the destroyer of the failures, 470facts that it cannot explain, 470, 471nor artificial has produced a new species, 471

Selection, natural, without teleological factors, its inadequacy, 391

is it in any sense thecauseof 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, 567cannot be resolved into simpler elements, 568forms in which it manifests itself, 568, 569of unregenerate, the substitution of a lower for a higher end, 570

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, 365the decree to permit not efficient, 365its permission a difficulty of all theistic systems, 366its permission, how not to be explained, 366its permission, how it may be partially explained, 366the problem of, one of four at present not to be completely solved, 366, 367observations from many sources aiming to throw light on the existence of moral evil, 367, 368man's, as suggested from without, perhaps the mitigating circumstance that allows of his redemption, 462in what sense a nature?, 518effect of first, not a weakening but a perversion of human nature, 521the first did more than despoil man of a special gift of grace, 521or man's state of apostasy, 533-664its nature, 549-573defined, 549Old and New School views regarding, their difference and approximation, 549, 550as a state, some psychological notes explanatory of, 550, 551as a state is counteracted by an immanent divine power which leads towards salvation, 551“total depravity”as descriptive of, an out-grown phrase, 552as act of transgression and disposition or state, proved from Scripture, 552-554the words which describe, applicable to dispositions and states, 552N. T. descriptions of, give prominence to states and dispositions, 552, 553and moral evil in the thoughts, affections, and heart, 553is name given to a state which originated wrong desires, 553is represented as existing in soul prior to consciousness of it, 553a permanent power or reigning principle, 553Mosaic sacrifices for sins other than mere act, 554universally attributed to disposition or state, 554attributed to outward act only when such act is symptomatic of inward state, 554if it tend from act to a state, regarded as correspondingly blameworthy, 554in an individual condemned though it cannot be traced back to a conscious originating act, 554, 555when it becomes fixed and dominant moral corruption, meets special disapprobation, 555[pg 1108]regarded by the Christian as a manifestation of subconscious depravity of nature, 555repented of, principally as depravity of nature, 555rather than“sins”repented of by Christians advanced in spiritual culture; a conspectus of quotations to prove this, 555-557its definition as 'the voluntary transgression of known law' discussed, 557-559is not always a distinct and conscious volition, 557intention aggravates, but is not essential to, 558knowledge aggravates, but is not essential to, 558ability to fulfil the law, not essential to, 558definition of, 558, 559its essential principle, 559-573is not sensuousness, 559-563is not finiteness, 563-566is selfishness, 567-573is universal, 573-582committed by every human being, arrived at maturity, 573its universality set forth in Scripture, 573, 574its universality proved from history, 574its universality proved from Christian experience, 576the outcome of a corrupt nature possessed by every human being, 577is act or disposition referred to a corrupt nature, 577rests on men who are called in Scripture 'children of wrath,', 578its penalty, death, visits those who have never exercised personal or conscious choice, 579its universality proved from reason, 579, 580testimony of great thinkers regarding, 580-582its origin in the personal act of Adam, 582-593the origin of the sinful nature whence it comes is beyond the investigations of reason, 582Scriptural account of its origin, 582-585Adam's, its essential nature, 587of Adam in resisting inworking God, 587an immanent preference of the world, 587not to be accounted for psychologically, 587the external temptation to first sin a benevolent permission, 588self-originated, Satanic, 588the first temptation to, had no tendency to lead astray, 588the first, though in itself small, a revelation of will thoroughly alienated from God, 590consequences of original, as respects Adam, 590-593physical death, a consequence of his first, 590, 591spiritual death, a consequence of his first, 591, 592exclusion from God's presence, a consequence of his first, 592banishment from the Garden, a consequence of man's first, 593the, of our first parents constituted their posterity sinners, 593two insistent questions regarding the first, and the Scriptural answer, 593imputation of, its true meaning, 594original, its meaning, 594man's relations to moral law extend beyond conscious and actual, 595God's moral government recognizes race-sin, 595actual, more guilty than original, 596no man condemned for original, alone, 596, 664the only ground of responsibility for race-sin, 596original, its correlate, 596imputation of Adam's, 597-637seeImputation.Pelagian theory of the imputation of, 597-601Arminian theory of the imputation of, 601-606New School theory of the imputation of, 606-612Federal theory of the imputation of, 612-616Mediate theory of the imputation of, 616-619Augustinian theory of the imputation of, 619-637table of theories of imputation of, 628apart from, and prior to, consciousness, 629conscience and Scripture attest that we are responsible for our unborn tendency to, 629as our nature, rightly punishable with resulting sin, 632reproductive, each reproduction increasing guilt and punishment, 633each man guilty of personal, which expresses more than original depravity of nature, 633is self-perpetuating, 633is self-isolating, 634the nature, and sins its expression, 635[pg 1109]as Adam's, ruins, so Christ's obedience saves, 635consequences of, to Adam's posterity, 637-664depravity a consequence of Adam's, 637-640in nature, as“total depravity,”considered, 637-640total inability a consequence of Adam's, 640-644guilt a consequence of Adam's, 644-652penalty, a consequence of Adam's, 652-660infants in a state of, 661venial and mortal, 648of nature and personal transgression, 648, 649of ignorance and of knowledge, 649of infirmity and of presumption, 649, 650of incomplete and final obduracy, 650-652unto death, considered, 650-652against Holy Spirit, why unpardonable, 651, 652penalty of, considered, 652-660infants in a state of, 661Christ free from hereditary and actual, 676-678Christ responsible for human, 759Christ responsible for Adam's, 759Christ as great Penitent confesses race-sin, 760Christ, how made to be, 760-763a pretermission of, justified in cross, 772does not condemn, but the failure to ask pardon for it, 856judged and condemned on Calvary, 860future, the virtual pardon of, 867“dwelling,”and“reigning,”, 869, 870expelled by bringing in Christ, 873does not most sympathize with sin, 1028hinders intercourse with other worlds, 1033“eternal,”, 1033made the means of displaying God's glory, 1038chosen in spite of infinite motives to the contrary, 1040

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

seeImputation.

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

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