Chapter 79

Trafalgar, omitted in Napoleon's dispatches, 143Transcendence, divine, denied by pantheism, 100taught in Scripture, 102deism, an exaggeration of, 414Transgression, a stab at heart of God, 541not proper translation of 1 John 3:4, 452its universality directly taught in Scripture, 573its universality proved in universal need of atonement, regeneration, and repentance, 573its universality shown in condemnation that rests on all who do not accept Christ, 574its universality, consistent with passages which ascribe a sort of goodness to some men, 574its universality proved by history, and individual experience and observation, 574, 575proved from Christian experience, 576uniformity of actual transgression, a proof that will is impotent, 611all moral consequences flowing from, are sanctions of law, 637Transubstantiation, what?, 965rests on a false interpretation of Scripture, 965contradicts the senses, 966denies completeness of sacrifice of Calvary, 967externalizes and destroys Christianity, 967, 968Trees of“life”and“knowledge,”, 526, 527, 583Trichotomous theory of man's nature, 484-487Trimurti, Brahman Trinity, 351Trinitas dualitatem ad unitatem reducit, 338Trinitatem, I ad Jordanem et videbis, 325Trinities, heathen, 351Trinity, renders possible an eternal divine self-contemplation, 262the immanent love of God understood only in light of, 265the immanent holiness of God rendered intelligible by doctrine of, 274has close relations to doctrine of immanent attributes, 275, 336doctrine of the, 304-352a truth of revelation only, 304intimated in O. T., made known in N. T., 304six main statements concerning, 304the term ascribed to Tertullian, 304a designation of four facts, 304held implicitly, or in solution, by the apostles, 304took shape in the Athanasian Creed (8th or 9th century), 305usually connected with“semi-trinitarian”Nicene Creed (325 A. D.), 305references on doctrine of, 305implies the recognition in Scripture of three as God, 305-322presents proofs from N. T., 305-317presents Father as recognized as God, 305presents Jesus Christ as recognized as God, 305-315appeals to Christian experience as confirming the deity of Christ, 313, 314explains certain passages apparently inconsistent with Christ's deity, 314, 315allows an order of office and operation consistent with essential oneness and equality, 314, 342doctrine of, how its construction started, 314presents the Holy Spirit recognized as God, 315-317[pg 1113]intimations of, in the O. T., 317-322seemingly alluded to in passages which teach a plurality of some sort in the Godhead, 317-319seemingly alluded to in passages relating to the Angel of Jehovah, 319seemingly alluded to in descriptions of Divine Wisdom and Word, 320, 321owes nothing to foreign sources, 320seemingly alluded to in descriptions of the Messiah, 321-322O. T. contains germ of doctrine of, 322its clear revelation, why delayed?, 322insists that the three recognized as God are presented in Scripture as distinct persons, 322-326asserts that this tripersonality of the divine nature is immanent and eternal, 326it alleges Scriptural proof that the distinctions of personality are eternal, 326the Sabellian heresy regarding, 327-328the Arian heresy regarding, 328-330teaches a tripersonality which is not tritheism, for while the persons are three, the essence is one, 330how the term“person”is used in, 330, 331the oneness of essence explained, 331-334teaches an association which is more than partnership, 331presents itself as the organism of the deity, 331permits intercommunion and mutual immanency of persons, 332, 333teaches equality of the three persons, 334-343teaches that the titles belong to the persons, 334, 335employs the personal titles in a qualified sense, 335-340presents to us life-movement in the Godhead, 336-338teaches a“generation”that is consistent with equality, 340teaches a“procession”that is consistent with equality, 340is inscrutable, 344all analogies inadequate to represent it, 344illustrations of, their only use, 345not self-contradictory, 345presents faculty and function at highest differentiation, 346its relations to other doctrines, 347its acceptance essential to any proper theism, 347its denial leads to pantheism, 347essential to any proper revelation, 349evidence of, in prayer, 349essential to any proper redemption, 350effects of its denial on religious life, 350, 351essential to any proper model for human life, 351sets law of love before us as eternal, 351shows divine pattern of receptive life, 351authors on the doctrine, 351Trisagion, the, 318Tritheism, inconsistent with idea of God, 330Trivialities in Scripture, their use, 217Truth, God's, what?, 260immanent, 260a matter of being, 261foundation of truth among men, 261the principle and guarantee of all revelation, 262not of God's will, but of his being, 262God's transitive, 288-290seeVeracity and Faithfulness.attributed to Christ, 309attributed to the Holy Spirit, 316as the efficient cause of regeneration, 817-820hated by sinner, 817neither known nor obeyed without a change of the affections, 818even God cannot make it more true, 819without God, an abstraction, not a power, 819Ubi caritas,ibi claritas, 520Ubi Spiritus, ibi Christus, 333Ubi tres medici, ibi duo athei, 39Ubiquity of Christ's human body, 709relation to Lord's Supper, 968relation to views of heaven, 1032Ueberglaube,Aberglaube,Unglaube, the chief avenues of temptation, 677Uhlhorn, on the“if's”of Tacitus, 989Ullmann, on the derivation ofsapientia, 4Una navis est jam bonorum omnium, 881Uncaused cause, the idea of, not from logical inference, but intuitive belief, 74Unconditioned being, the presupposition of our knowing, 58Unconscious mental action, 551, 555Unconscious substance cannot produce self-conscious and free beings, 102Understanding, the servant of the will, 460Unicus, as applied to the divine nature, 259Uniformity of nature, a presumption against miracles, 124not absolute and universal, 124could only be asserted on the ground of absolute and universal knowledge, 124disproved by geology, 124breaks in, illustrated, 125final cause is beneath, 125of volitional action rests on character, 509of evil choice, implies tendency or determination, 611[pg 1114]of transgression, a demonstration of impotence of will, 611Unio personalis, 689, 690Union of the two natures in the one person of Christ, 683-700moral, between different souls, 799with Christ, believer's, and man's with Adam, compared, 627with Christ, believer's, wholly due to God, 781its relation to regeneration and conversion, 793doctrine of, 795-808reasons for its neglect, 795Scripture representations of, 795-798represented by building and foundation, 795represented by marriage union, 795, 796represented by vine and branch, 796consistent with individuality, 796represented by head and members, 796represented by union of race with Adam, 797believer is in Christ, 797Christ is in believer, 797Father and Son dwell in believer, 797believer has life by Christ as Christ has life by union with the Father, 797believers are one through, 797believers made partakers of divine nature through, 798by it believer made one spirit with the Lord, 798nature of, 798-802not a merely natural union, 799not a merely moral union, 799not a union of essence, 799, 800in it believer most conscious of his personality and power, 800not mediated by sacraments, 800an organic union, 800a vital union, 801a spiritual union, 801originated and sustained by Holy Spirit, 801by virtue of omnipresence the whole Christ with each believer, 281, 704, 801inscrutable, 801in what sense mystical, 801authors on, 802consequences of, to believer, 802-809removes the internal obstacle to man's return to God, in the case of his people, 802involves change in the dominant affection of the soul (Regeneration), 804is the true“transfusion of blood,”, 804involves a new exercise of soul's powers in Repentance and Faith (Conversion), 804this phase of, illustrated by the depuration of Chicago River, 804, 805with Christ gives to believer legal standing and rights of Christ (Justification), 805secures to the believer the transforming, assimilating power of Christ's life, for soul and body (Sanctification and Perseverance), 805does it secure physical miracles in deliverance from fleshly besetments of those who experience it?, 806brings about a fellowship with Christ, and thus a fellowship of believers with one another here and hereafter (Ecclesiology and Eschatology), 806secures among Christians the unity not of external organization, but of a common life, 807gives assurance of salvation, 808excerpts upon, from noted names in theology, 808references upon, 808, 809Unique, the, 244Unitarianism, derivation of term, 330its founders, 47their relation to Arianism, 329tends to pantheism, 347fosters lax views of sin, 350holds to Pelagian views of sin, 597holds to Socinian views of atonement, 728, 729Unity of Scripture, 175Unity of God, 259, 304consistent with a trinity, 259Unity of human race, taught in Scripture, 476lies at foundation of Pauline doctrine of sin and salvation, 476ground of obligation of brotherhood among men, 476various arguments for, 477-483opposed by theorists who propound different centres of creation, 481opposed on the ground that the physical diversities in the race are inconsistent with a common origin, 481, 482Universalia, anteandpost rem, andin re, 621Universalism, its error, 1047Universality of transgression, 573-577Universals, 621Universe, regarded as thought, must have had an absolute thinker, 60its substance cannot be shown to have had a beginning, 73has its phenomena had a cause within itself (pantheism)?, 73mind in it, leads us to infer mind in maker, 73if eternal, yet, as contingent and relative, it only requires an eternal creator, 74since its infinity cannot be proved, why infer from its perhaps limited existence an infinite creator?, 74[pg 1115]its order and useful collocation may be due to an impersonal intelligence (pantheism), 77its present harmony proves a will and intelligence equal to its contrivance, 80facts of, erroneous explanations of, 90-105not necessary to divine blessedness, 265“God's ceaseless conversation with his creatures,”, 436exists for moral and spiritual ends, 436a harp in which one string, our world, is out of tune, 451, 1033Unus, as applied to divine nature, 259Utopia, More's, an adumbration of St. John's City of God, 1031Vacuum, 279Vanity, what?, 569Variation, law of, 470, 491, 492Variations, are in the divine operation, not in the divine plan, 258Vedas, 56, 203, 222, 225Veracity and faithfulness of God, the, his transitive truth, 288, 289by virtue of, his revelations consist with his being and with each other, 288by virtue of, he fulfils all his promises expressed or implied, 289Viæ, employed in determining the divine attributes, 247Vice, can it be created?, 520Virgin-birth of Christ, 675-678Virgin, the Immaculate Conception of, its absurdity, 677Virtue, 298-303seeMoral obligation.Vishnu, incarnations of, 351Volition, the shadow of the affections, 815executive, 504a subordinate, not always determined by fundamental choice, 510, 870“Voluntary”and“volitional”contrasted, 557“Voluntas”and“arbitrium”distinguished, 557Vorsehung, an aspect of providence, 419Vulgate, 226, 799“Waters,”the best term in Hebrew to express“fluid mass,”, 395Weltgeschichte, die, ist das Weltgericht, 1024Wicked, in the intermediate state, 999, 1000in intermediate state, under constraint and guard, 999in intermediate state, in conscious suffering, 999in intermediate state, under punishment, 1000in intermediate state, their souls do not sleep, 1000in the final state, 1033-1056their final state, in Scriptural figures, 1033their final state, a summing up statement, 1034their final state is not annihilation, 1035, 1036their final state has in it no element of new probation or final restoration, 1039-1043their final state, one of everlasting punishment, 1044-1046their final state, a revelation of God's justice, 1046-1051their final state, a revelation of a benevolence which permits the self-chosen ruin of a few to work for the salvation of the many, 1051-1054their final state, should be preached with sympathy and solemnity, 1054-1056Will, free, not under law of physical causation, 26human, acts on nature without suspending its laws, 121human, acts initially without means, 122its power over body, 122has not the freedom of indifference, 363an act of pure, unknown to human consciousness, 363, 507and sensibility, two distinct powers, 363Christianity gives us more, 440Holy Spirit emancipates the, 440defined, 504determinism of, rejected, 504and other faculties, 505element in every act of soul, 505man is chiefly, 504the verb has no imperative, 505and permanent state, 505, 506slight decisions of, lead to fixation of character, 506and motives, 506, 507permanent states influence, 506not compelled, but persuaded by motive, 506in choosing between motives, chooses with a motive, namely the motive chosen, 507and contrary choice, 507, 508we know causality only as we know, 508a power of originating action, limited by subjective and social conditions, 508will, free, chooses between impulses, 508and responsibility, 509, 510naturally exercised with a bias, 509free, gives existence to duty and morality, 510is defeated in immorality, 511deterministic theory of, objections to, 511will does not create force, but directs it, 512will as great a mystery as the Trinity, 512references on, 513evil, the man himself, 555more than faculty of volitions, 600[pg 1116]its impotence proved by uniformity of transgression, 611such a decision of, as will justify God in condemning men, when found, 612a determination of the, prior to individual consciousness—a difficult but fruitful hypothesis, 624the cause of sin in holy beings, 629not absolutely as a man's character, 633character its surest but not its infallible index, 633man's, does more than express, it may curb, his nature, 633has permanent states, as well as transient acts, 764God's action, in conversion, 792, 793the depraved, has inconceivable power to resist God, 1048God's, not sole force in universe, 411God's“revealed”and“secret,”791

Trafalgar, omitted in Napoleon's dispatches, 143

Transcendence, divine, denied by pantheism, 100taught in Scripture, 102deism, an exaggeration of, 414

Transcendence, divine, denied by pantheism, 100

taught in Scripture, 102

deism, an exaggeration of, 414

Transgression, a stab at heart of God, 541not proper translation of 1 John 3:4, 452its universality directly taught in Scripture, 573its universality proved in universal need of atonement, regeneration, and repentance, 573its universality shown in condemnation that rests on all who do not accept Christ, 574its universality, consistent with passages which ascribe a sort of goodness to some men, 574its universality proved by history, and individual experience and observation, 574, 575proved from Christian experience, 576uniformity of actual transgression, a proof that will is impotent, 611all moral consequences flowing from, are sanctions of law, 637

Transgression, a stab at heart of God, 541

not proper translation of 1 John 3:4, 452

its universality directly taught in Scripture, 573

its universality proved in universal need of atonement, regeneration, and repentance, 573

its universality shown in condemnation that rests on all who do not accept Christ, 574

its universality, consistent with passages which ascribe a sort of goodness to some men, 574

its universality proved by history, and individual experience and observation, 574, 575

proved from Christian experience, 576

uniformity of actual transgression, a proof that will is impotent, 611

all moral consequences flowing from, are sanctions of law, 637

Transubstantiation, what?, 965rests on a false interpretation of Scripture, 965contradicts the senses, 966denies completeness of sacrifice of Calvary, 967externalizes and destroys Christianity, 967, 968

Transubstantiation, what?, 965

rests on a false interpretation of Scripture, 965

contradicts the senses, 966

denies completeness of sacrifice of Calvary, 967

externalizes and destroys Christianity, 967, 968

Trees of“life”and“knowledge,”, 526, 527, 583

Trichotomous theory of man's nature, 484-487

Trimurti, Brahman Trinity, 351

Trinitas dualitatem ad unitatem reducit, 338

Trinitatem, I ad Jordanem et videbis, 325

Trinities, heathen, 351

Trinity, renders possible an eternal divine self-contemplation, 262the immanent love of God understood only in light of, 265the immanent holiness of God rendered intelligible by doctrine of, 274has close relations to doctrine of immanent attributes, 275, 336doctrine of the, 304-352a truth of revelation only, 304intimated in O. T., made known in N. T., 304six main statements concerning, 304the term ascribed to Tertullian, 304a designation of four facts, 304held implicitly, or in solution, by the apostles, 304took shape in the Athanasian Creed (8th or 9th century), 305usually connected with“semi-trinitarian”Nicene Creed (325 A. D.), 305references on doctrine of, 305implies the recognition in Scripture of three as God, 305-322presents proofs from N. T., 305-317presents Father as recognized as God, 305presents Jesus Christ as recognized as God, 305-315appeals to Christian experience as confirming the deity of Christ, 313, 314explains certain passages apparently inconsistent with Christ's deity, 314, 315allows an order of office and operation consistent with essential oneness and equality, 314, 342doctrine of, how its construction started, 314presents the Holy Spirit recognized as God, 315-317[pg 1113]intimations of, in the O. T., 317-322seemingly alluded to in passages which teach a plurality of some sort in the Godhead, 317-319seemingly alluded to in passages relating to the Angel of Jehovah, 319seemingly alluded to in descriptions of Divine Wisdom and Word, 320, 321owes nothing to foreign sources, 320seemingly alluded to in descriptions of the Messiah, 321-322O. T. contains germ of doctrine of, 322its clear revelation, why delayed?, 322insists that the three recognized as God are presented in Scripture as distinct persons, 322-326asserts that this tripersonality of the divine nature is immanent and eternal, 326it alleges Scriptural proof that the distinctions of personality are eternal, 326the Sabellian heresy regarding, 327-328the Arian heresy regarding, 328-330teaches a tripersonality which is not tritheism, for while the persons are three, the essence is one, 330how the term“person”is used in, 330, 331the oneness of essence explained, 331-334teaches an association which is more than partnership, 331presents itself as the organism of the deity, 331permits intercommunion and mutual immanency of persons, 332, 333teaches equality of the three persons, 334-343teaches that the titles belong to the persons, 334, 335employs the personal titles in a qualified sense, 335-340presents to us life-movement in the Godhead, 336-338teaches a“generation”that is consistent with equality, 340teaches a“procession”that is consistent with equality, 340is inscrutable, 344all analogies inadequate to represent it, 344illustrations of, their only use, 345not self-contradictory, 345presents faculty and function at highest differentiation, 346its relations to other doctrines, 347its acceptance essential to any proper theism, 347its denial leads to pantheism, 347essential to any proper revelation, 349evidence of, in prayer, 349essential to any proper redemption, 350effects of its denial on religious life, 350, 351essential to any proper model for human life, 351sets law of love before us as eternal, 351shows divine pattern of receptive life, 351authors on the doctrine, 351

Trinity, renders possible an eternal divine self-contemplation, 262

the immanent love of God understood only in light of, 265

the immanent holiness of God rendered intelligible by doctrine of, 274

has close relations to doctrine of immanent attributes, 275, 336

doctrine of the, 304-352

a truth of revelation only, 304

intimated in O. T., made known in N. T., 304

six main statements concerning, 304

the term ascribed to Tertullian, 304

a designation of four facts, 304

held implicitly, or in solution, by the apostles, 304

took shape in the Athanasian Creed (8th or 9th century), 305

usually connected with“semi-trinitarian”Nicene Creed (325 A. D.), 305

references on doctrine of, 305

implies the recognition in Scripture of three as God, 305-322

presents proofs from N. T., 305-317

presents Father as recognized as God, 305

presents Jesus Christ as recognized as God, 305-315

appeals to Christian experience as confirming the deity of Christ, 313, 314

explains certain passages apparently inconsistent with Christ's deity, 314, 315

allows an order of office and operation consistent with essential oneness and equality, 314, 342

doctrine of, how its construction started, 314

presents the Holy Spirit recognized as God, 315-317

intimations of, in the O. T., 317-322

seemingly alluded to in passages which teach a plurality of some sort in the Godhead, 317-319

seemingly alluded to in passages relating to the Angel of Jehovah, 319

seemingly alluded to in descriptions of Divine Wisdom and Word, 320, 321

owes nothing to foreign sources, 320

seemingly alluded to in descriptions of the Messiah, 321-322

O. T. contains germ of doctrine of, 322

its clear revelation, why delayed?, 322

insists that the three recognized as God are presented in Scripture as distinct persons, 322-326

asserts that this tripersonality of the divine nature is immanent and eternal, 326

it alleges Scriptural proof that the distinctions of personality are eternal, 326

the Sabellian heresy regarding, 327-328

the Arian heresy regarding, 328-330

teaches a tripersonality which is not tritheism, for while the persons are three, the essence is one, 330

how the term“person”is used in, 330, 331

the oneness of essence explained, 331-334

teaches an association which is more than partnership, 331

presents itself as the organism of the deity, 331

permits intercommunion and mutual immanency of persons, 332, 333

teaches equality of the three persons, 334-343

teaches that the titles belong to the persons, 334, 335

employs the personal titles in a qualified sense, 335-340

presents to us life-movement in the Godhead, 336-338

teaches a“generation”that is consistent with equality, 340

teaches a“procession”that is consistent with equality, 340

is inscrutable, 344

all analogies inadequate to represent it, 344

illustrations of, their only use, 345

not self-contradictory, 345

presents faculty and function at highest differentiation, 346

its relations to other doctrines, 347

its acceptance essential to any proper theism, 347

its denial leads to pantheism, 347

essential to any proper revelation, 349

evidence of, in prayer, 349

essential to any proper redemption, 350

effects of its denial on religious life, 350, 351

essential to any proper model for human life, 351

sets law of love before us as eternal, 351

shows divine pattern of receptive life, 351

authors on the doctrine, 351

Trisagion, the, 318

Tritheism, inconsistent with idea of God, 330

Trivialities in Scripture, their use, 217

Truth, God's, what?, 260immanent, 260a matter of being, 261foundation of truth among men, 261the principle and guarantee of all revelation, 262not of God's will, but of his being, 262God's transitive, 288-290seeVeracity and Faithfulness.attributed to Christ, 309attributed to the Holy Spirit, 316as the efficient cause of regeneration, 817-820hated by sinner, 817neither known nor obeyed without a change of the affections, 818even God cannot make it more true, 819without God, an abstraction, not a power, 819

Truth, God's, what?, 260

immanent, 260

a matter of being, 261

foundation of truth among men, 261

the principle and guarantee of all revelation, 262

not of God's will, but of his being, 262

God's transitive, 288-290

seeVeracity and Faithfulness.

attributed to Christ, 309

attributed to the Holy Spirit, 316

as the efficient cause of regeneration, 817-820

hated by sinner, 817

neither known nor obeyed without a change of the affections, 818

even God cannot make it more true, 819

without God, an abstraction, not a power, 819

Ubi caritas,ibi claritas, 520

Ubi Spiritus, ibi Christus, 333

Ubi tres medici, ibi duo athei, 39

Ubiquity of Christ's human body, 709relation to Lord's Supper, 968relation to views of heaven, 1032

Ubiquity of Christ's human body, 709

relation to Lord's Supper, 968

relation to views of heaven, 1032

Ueberglaube,Aberglaube,Unglaube, the chief avenues of temptation, 677

Uhlhorn, on the“if's”of Tacitus, 989

Ullmann, on the derivation ofsapientia, 4

Una navis est jam bonorum omnium, 881

Uncaused cause, the idea of, not from logical inference, but intuitive belief, 74

Unconditioned being, the presupposition of our knowing, 58

Unconscious mental action, 551, 555

Unconscious substance cannot produce self-conscious and free beings, 102

Understanding, the servant of the will, 460

Unicus, as applied to the divine nature, 259

Uniformity of nature, a presumption against miracles, 124not absolute and universal, 124could only be asserted on the ground of absolute and universal knowledge, 124disproved by geology, 124breaks in, illustrated, 125final cause is beneath, 125of volitional action rests on character, 509of evil choice, implies tendency or determination, 611[pg 1114]of transgression, a demonstration of impotence of will, 611

Uniformity of nature, a presumption against miracles, 124

not absolute and universal, 124

could only be asserted on the ground of absolute and universal knowledge, 124

disproved by geology, 124

breaks in, illustrated, 125

final cause is beneath, 125

of volitional action rests on character, 509

of evil choice, implies tendency or determination, 611

of transgression, a demonstration of impotence of will, 611

Unio personalis, 689, 690

Union of the two natures in the one person of Christ, 683-700moral, between different souls, 799with Christ, believer's, and man's with Adam, compared, 627with Christ, believer's, wholly due to God, 781its relation to regeneration and conversion, 793doctrine of, 795-808reasons for its neglect, 795Scripture representations of, 795-798represented by building and foundation, 795represented by marriage union, 795, 796represented by vine and branch, 796consistent with individuality, 796represented by head and members, 796represented by union of race with Adam, 797believer is in Christ, 797Christ is in believer, 797Father and Son dwell in believer, 797believer has life by Christ as Christ has life by union with the Father, 797believers are one through, 797believers made partakers of divine nature through, 798by it believer made one spirit with the Lord, 798nature of, 798-802not a merely natural union, 799not a merely moral union, 799not a union of essence, 799, 800in it believer most conscious of his personality and power, 800not mediated by sacraments, 800an organic union, 800a vital union, 801a spiritual union, 801originated and sustained by Holy Spirit, 801by virtue of omnipresence the whole Christ with each believer, 281, 704, 801inscrutable, 801in what sense mystical, 801authors on, 802consequences of, to believer, 802-809removes the internal obstacle to man's return to God, in the case of his people, 802involves change in the dominant affection of the soul (Regeneration), 804is the true“transfusion of blood,”, 804involves a new exercise of soul's powers in Repentance and Faith (Conversion), 804this phase of, illustrated by the depuration of Chicago River, 804, 805with Christ gives to believer legal standing and rights of Christ (Justification), 805secures to the believer the transforming, assimilating power of Christ's life, for soul and body (Sanctification and Perseverance), 805does it secure physical miracles in deliverance from fleshly besetments of those who experience it?, 806brings about a fellowship with Christ, and thus a fellowship of believers with one another here and hereafter (Ecclesiology and Eschatology), 806secures among Christians the unity not of external organization, but of a common life, 807gives assurance of salvation, 808excerpts upon, from noted names in theology, 808references upon, 808, 809

Union of the two natures in the one person of Christ, 683-700

moral, between different souls, 799

with Christ, believer's, and man's with Adam, compared, 627

with Christ, believer's, wholly due to God, 781

its relation to regeneration and conversion, 793

doctrine of, 795-808

reasons for its neglect, 795

Scripture representations of, 795-798

represented by building and foundation, 795

represented by marriage union, 795, 796

represented by vine and branch, 796

consistent with individuality, 796

represented by head and members, 796

represented by union of race with Adam, 797

believer is in Christ, 797

Christ is in believer, 797

Father and Son dwell in believer, 797

believer has life by Christ as Christ has life by union with the Father, 797

believers are one through, 797

believers made partakers of divine nature through, 798

by it believer made one spirit with the Lord, 798

nature of, 798-802

not a merely natural union, 799

not a merely moral union, 799

not a union of essence, 799, 800

in it believer most conscious of his personality and power, 800

not mediated by sacraments, 800

an organic union, 800

a vital union, 801

a spiritual union, 801

originated and sustained by Holy Spirit, 801

by virtue of omnipresence the whole Christ with each believer, 281, 704, 801

inscrutable, 801

in what sense mystical, 801

authors on, 802

consequences of, to believer, 802-809

removes the internal obstacle to man's return to God, in the case of his people, 802

involves change in the dominant affection of the soul (Regeneration), 804

is the true“transfusion of blood,”, 804

involves a new exercise of soul's powers in Repentance and Faith (Conversion), 804

this phase of, illustrated by the depuration of Chicago River, 804, 805

with Christ gives to believer legal standing and rights of Christ (Justification), 805

secures to the believer the transforming, assimilating power of Christ's life, for soul and body (Sanctification and Perseverance), 805

does it secure physical miracles in deliverance from fleshly besetments of those who experience it?, 806

brings about a fellowship with Christ, and thus a fellowship of believers with one another here and hereafter (Ecclesiology and Eschatology), 806

secures among Christians the unity not of external organization, but of a common life, 807

gives assurance of salvation, 808

excerpts upon, from noted names in theology, 808

references upon, 808, 809

Unique, the, 244

Unitarianism, derivation of term, 330its founders, 47their relation to Arianism, 329tends to pantheism, 347fosters lax views of sin, 350holds to Pelagian views of sin, 597holds to Socinian views of atonement, 728, 729

Unitarianism, derivation of term, 330

its founders, 47

their relation to Arianism, 329

tends to pantheism, 347

fosters lax views of sin, 350

holds to Pelagian views of sin, 597

holds to Socinian views of atonement, 728, 729

Unity of Scripture, 175

Unity of God, 259, 304consistent with a trinity, 259

Unity of God, 259, 304

consistent with a trinity, 259

Unity of human race, taught in Scripture, 476lies at foundation of Pauline doctrine of sin and salvation, 476ground of obligation of brotherhood among men, 476various arguments for, 477-483opposed by theorists who propound different centres of creation, 481opposed on the ground that the physical diversities in the race are inconsistent with a common origin, 481, 482

Unity of human race, taught in Scripture, 476

lies at foundation of Pauline doctrine of sin and salvation, 476

ground of obligation of brotherhood among men, 476

various arguments for, 477-483

opposed by theorists who propound different centres of creation, 481

opposed on the ground that the physical diversities in the race are inconsistent with a common origin, 481, 482

Universalia, anteandpost rem, andin re, 621

Universalism, its error, 1047

Universality of transgression, 573-577

Universals, 621

Universe, regarded as thought, must have had an absolute thinker, 60its substance cannot be shown to have had a beginning, 73has its phenomena had a cause within itself (pantheism)?, 73mind in it, leads us to infer mind in maker, 73if eternal, yet, as contingent and relative, it only requires an eternal creator, 74since its infinity cannot be proved, why infer from its perhaps limited existence an infinite creator?, 74[pg 1115]its order and useful collocation may be due to an impersonal intelligence (pantheism), 77its present harmony proves a will and intelligence equal to its contrivance, 80facts of, erroneous explanations of, 90-105not necessary to divine blessedness, 265“God's ceaseless conversation with his creatures,”, 436exists for moral and spiritual ends, 436a harp in which one string, our world, is out of tune, 451, 1033

Universe, regarded as thought, must have had an absolute thinker, 60

its substance cannot be shown to have had a beginning, 73

has its phenomena had a cause within itself (pantheism)?, 73

mind in it, leads us to infer mind in maker, 73

if eternal, yet, as contingent and relative, it only requires an eternal creator, 74

since its infinity cannot be proved, why infer from its perhaps limited existence an infinite creator?, 74

its order and useful collocation may be due to an impersonal intelligence (pantheism), 77

its present harmony proves a will and intelligence equal to its contrivance, 80

facts of, erroneous explanations of, 90-105

not necessary to divine blessedness, 265

“God's ceaseless conversation with his creatures,”, 436

exists for moral and spiritual ends, 436

a harp in which one string, our world, is out of tune, 451, 1033

Unus, as applied to divine nature, 259

Utopia, More's, an adumbration of St. John's City of God, 1031

Vacuum, 279

Vanity, what?, 569

Variation, law of, 470, 491, 492

Variations, are in the divine operation, not in the divine plan, 258

Vedas, 56, 203, 222, 225

Veracity and faithfulness of God, the, his transitive truth, 288, 289by virtue of, his revelations consist with his being and with each other, 288by virtue of, he fulfils all his promises expressed or implied, 289

Veracity and faithfulness of God, the, his transitive truth, 288, 289

by virtue of, his revelations consist with his being and with each other, 288

by virtue of, he fulfils all his promises expressed or implied, 289

Viæ, employed in determining the divine attributes, 247

Vice, can it be created?, 520

Virgin-birth of Christ, 675-678

Virgin, the Immaculate Conception of, its absurdity, 677

Virtue, 298-303seeMoral obligation.

Virtue, 298-303

seeMoral obligation.

Vishnu, incarnations of, 351

Volition, the shadow of the affections, 815executive, 504a subordinate, not always determined by fundamental choice, 510, 870

Volition, the shadow of the affections, 815

executive, 504

a subordinate, not always determined by fundamental choice, 510, 870

“Voluntary”and“volitional”contrasted, 557

“Voluntas”and“arbitrium”distinguished, 557

Vorsehung, an aspect of providence, 419

Vulgate, 226, 799

“Waters,”the best term in Hebrew to express“fluid mass,”, 395

Weltgeschichte, die, ist das Weltgericht, 1024

Wicked, in the intermediate state, 999, 1000in intermediate state, under constraint and guard, 999in intermediate state, in conscious suffering, 999in intermediate state, under punishment, 1000in intermediate state, their souls do not sleep, 1000in the final state, 1033-1056their final state, in Scriptural figures, 1033their final state, a summing up statement, 1034their final state is not annihilation, 1035, 1036their final state has in it no element of new probation or final restoration, 1039-1043their final state, one of everlasting punishment, 1044-1046their final state, a revelation of God's justice, 1046-1051their final state, a revelation of a benevolence which permits the self-chosen ruin of a few to work for the salvation of the many, 1051-1054their final state, should be preached with sympathy and solemnity, 1054-1056

Wicked, in the intermediate state, 999, 1000

in intermediate state, under constraint and guard, 999

in intermediate state, in conscious suffering, 999

in intermediate state, under punishment, 1000

in intermediate state, their souls do not sleep, 1000

in the final state, 1033-1056

their final state, in Scriptural figures, 1033

their final state, a summing up statement, 1034

their final state is not annihilation, 1035, 1036

their final state has in it no element of new probation or final restoration, 1039-1043

their final state, one of everlasting punishment, 1044-1046

their final state, a revelation of God's justice, 1046-1051

their final state, a revelation of a benevolence which permits the self-chosen ruin of a few to work for the salvation of the many, 1051-1054

their final state, should be preached with sympathy and solemnity, 1054-1056

Will, free, not under law of physical causation, 26human, acts on nature without suspending its laws, 121human, acts initially without means, 122its power over body, 122has not the freedom of indifference, 363an act of pure, unknown to human consciousness, 363, 507and sensibility, two distinct powers, 363Christianity gives us more, 440Holy Spirit emancipates the, 440defined, 504determinism of, rejected, 504and other faculties, 505element in every act of soul, 505man is chiefly, 504the verb has no imperative, 505and permanent state, 505, 506slight decisions of, lead to fixation of character, 506and motives, 506, 507permanent states influence, 506not compelled, but persuaded by motive, 506in choosing between motives, chooses with a motive, namely the motive chosen, 507and contrary choice, 507, 508we know causality only as we know, 508a power of originating action, limited by subjective and social conditions, 508will, free, chooses between impulses, 508and responsibility, 509, 510naturally exercised with a bias, 509free, gives existence to duty and morality, 510is defeated in immorality, 511deterministic theory of, objections to, 511will does not create force, but directs it, 512will as great a mystery as the Trinity, 512references on, 513evil, the man himself, 555more than faculty of volitions, 600[pg 1116]its impotence proved by uniformity of transgression, 611such a decision of, as will justify God in condemning men, when found, 612a determination of the, prior to individual consciousness—a difficult but fruitful hypothesis, 624the cause of sin in holy beings, 629not absolutely as a man's character, 633character its surest but not its infallible index, 633man's, does more than express, it may curb, his nature, 633has permanent states, as well as transient acts, 764God's action, in conversion, 792, 793the depraved, has inconceivable power to resist God, 1048God's, not sole force in universe, 411God's“revealed”and“secret,”791

Will, free, not under law of physical causation, 26

human, acts on nature without suspending its laws, 121

human, acts initially without means, 122

its power over body, 122

has not the freedom of indifference, 363

an act of pure, unknown to human consciousness, 363, 507

and sensibility, two distinct powers, 363

Christianity gives us more, 440

Holy Spirit emancipates the, 440

defined, 504

determinism of, rejected, 504

and other faculties, 505

element in every act of soul, 505

man is chiefly, 504

the verb has no imperative, 505

and permanent state, 505, 506

slight decisions of, lead to fixation of character, 506

and motives, 506, 507

permanent states influence, 506

not compelled, but persuaded by motive, 506

in choosing between motives, chooses with a motive, namely the motive chosen, 507

and contrary choice, 507, 508

we know causality only as we know, 508

a power of originating action, limited by subjective and social conditions, 508

will, free, chooses between impulses, 508

and responsibility, 509, 510

naturally exercised with a bias, 509

free, gives existence to duty and morality, 510

is defeated in immorality, 511

deterministic theory of, objections to, 511

will does not create force, but directs it, 512

will as great a mystery as the Trinity, 512

references on, 513

evil, the man himself, 555

more than faculty of volitions, 600

its impotence proved by uniformity of transgression, 611

such a decision of, as will justify God in condemning men, when found, 612

a determination of the, prior to individual consciousness—a difficult but fruitful hypothesis, 624

the cause of sin in holy beings, 629

not absolutely as a man's character, 633

character its surest but not its infallible index, 633

man's, does more than express, it may curb, his nature, 633

has permanent states, as well as transient acts, 764

God's action, in conversion, 792, 793

the depraved, has inconceivable power to resist God, 1048

God's, not sole force in universe, 411

God's“revealed”and“secret,”791

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