Index Of
Subjects.
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Ability, gracious, 602, 640
natural, of New School, 640, 641
not test of sin, 558
Pelagian, 640
Absolute, its denotation, 9
as applied to divine attributes, 249
how related to finite, 58, 255
Reason, an, the postulate of logical thought, 60
Acceptilatio, the Grotian,
740
Acquittal of believing sinners, from punishment, 854
Action, divine, not in distantia, 418
Acts, evil, God's concurrence with, 418
Adam, his original righteousness not immutable, 519
had power of contrary choice, 519
not created undecided, 519
his love, God-given, 519
his exercise of holy will not meritorious, 520
unfallen, according to Romish theologians, 520
his physical perfection, 523
unfallen, according to Fathers and Scholastics, 523
his relations to lower creation, 524
his relations to God, 524
his surroundings and society, 525
the test of his virtue, 526
physical immortality possible to, 527
his twofold death, resulting from Fall, 590
his communion with God interrupted, 592
his banishment from God, 593
imputation of his sin to his posterity, see
Imputation.
in him “the
natural,” had he continued upright, might without death
have obtained “the spiritual,” 658
was Christ in, 759
Christ, the Last, 678
Christ, the Second, 680
Aequale temperamentum, 523
Affections, 362, 815
holy, authors on, 826
Agency, free, and divine decrees, 359-362
Alexander, unifier of Greek East, 668
Allegorical arrangement in theology, 50
American theology, 48, 49
Analytical method, in theology, 45, 49
Ancestry of race, proofs of a common, 476-482
“Angel of the
church,” 452, 916
Angelology of Scripture, not derived from Egyptian or Persian
sources, 448
Angels, their class defined, 443
Scholastic subtleties regarding, their influence, 443, 444
Milton and Dante upon, 443
their existence a scientific possibility, 444
faith in, enlarges conception of universe, 444
list of authors upon, 444
Scriptural statements and intimations concerning, 441-459
are created beings, 444
are incorporeal, 445
are personal, 445
possessed of superhuman intelligence, 445
distinct from and older than man, 445
not personifications, 445
numerous, 447
are a company, not a race, 447
were created holy, 450
had a probation, 450
some preserved their integrity, 450
some fell from innocence, 450
the good, confirmed in goodness, 450
the evil, confirmed in evil, 450
Angels, good, they stand worshiping God, 451
they rejoice in God's works, 451
they work in nature, 451
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they guide nations, 451
watch over interests of churches, 452
assist individual believers, 452
punish God's enemies, 452
ministers of God's special providences, 452
act within laws of spiritual and moral world, 453
their influence illustrated by psychic phenomena, 453, 454
Angels, evil, oppose God, 454
hinder man's welfare, 455
tempt negatively and positively, 455
their intercourse with Christ, 456
execute God's will, 457
their power not independent of human will, 457
limited by permissive will of God, 458
the doctrine of, not opposed to science, 459
not opposed to right views of space or spirit, 459
not impossible that, though wise, they should rebel, 460
the continuance and punishment of evil, not inconsistent with
divine benevolence, 461
their organization, though sinful, not impossible, 461
the doctrine of evil, not hurtful, 461, 462
the doctrine of evil, does not degrade man, 462
good, the doctrine of, its uses, 462
evil, the doctrine of, its uses, 463
fallen, if no redemption provided for, why? 463
created in Christ, 464
their salvation, Scripture silent upon, 464
Anger, sometimes a duty, 294
Annihilation, of infants, held by Emmons, 609
at death, inequitable, 987, 1036
disproved by Scripture, 991-998
terms which seemingly teach, 993
language adduced to prove, often metaphorical, 994
old view of, 1036
the theory that it is a result of the weakening of powers of
soul by sin, considered, 1036
“second
death” regarded as dissolution of the soul, 1036
the theory that a positive punishment proportioned to guilt
precedes and ends in, 1037
the tenet of, rests on a defective view of holiness, 1037
a part of the “conditional immortality” hypothesis,
1037
as connected with the principle, “Evil is punished by its own
increase,” 1038
“Answer
(Interrogation) of a good conscience,” phrase examined,
821
Anthropological argument for God's existence, 80-85
Anthropological method in theology, 50
Anthropology, a division of theology, 464
Anthropomorphism, 122, 250
“Anthropomorphism inverse,” 468
“Anticipative
consequences,” 403, 658
Antiquity of race, relation of Scripture to, 224-226
Apocalypse, its exegetic not yet found, 1014
Apollinarianism, 487, 670, 671
Apostasy, man's state of, 533-664
Apostasy of the believer, how treated in Scripture, 884-886
A posteriori reasoning, 66,
86
Apostles, 199-201, 909, 971
Apotelesmaticum genus, 686
A priori argument for God's
existence, the, see
God.
judgments, 10
reasons for expecting a divine revelation, 111-114
Argument ad hominem in Scripture, 233
for existence of God, its value, 65-67, 71, 72, 87-89
Arminianism, 362, 601-606
Arrangement of material in theology, 2, 49, 50
Aryan and Semitic languages, their connection, 479
Ascension, Christ's, 708-710
Christ's humanity, how related to the Logos in, 709
Aseity of God, 256, 257
not confined to Father, 342
Assensus, an element in
faith, 837
Assurance of salvation, 808, 845
“Asymptote of
God,” man, the, 565
Atonement, facts in Christ's sufferings which prove, 713
defined, 713
satisfies holiness, the fundamental attribute of God, 713
meets the conditions of a universe in which happiness is
connected with righteousness and suffering with sin, 714
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in it Christ as Logos, the Revealer of God in the universe,
inflicts the penalty of sin, while, as Life of humanity, he
endures the infliction, 714
humanity has made, when righteousness in Christ, as generic
humanity, condemns sin, and love in Christ endures the penalty,
714
substitutionary and sharing, 715
in, Christ suffers as the very life of man, 715
not made, but revealed, by Christ's historical sufferings, 715
the sacrifice of, the final revelation of the heart of God and
of the law of universal life, 716
a model of, and stimulus to, self-sacrifice, 716
its subjective effects must not exclude consideration of its
ground and cause, 716
Scripture methods of representing, 716-722
originates in God's love and manifests it, 716
an example of disinterested love to secure our deliverance from
selfishness, 716, 717
a ransom in which death is the price paid, 717
an act of obedience to law, 717
an act of priestly mediation, 718-728
a sin-offering, 719
a propitiation, 719
a substitution, 720
correct views of, grounded on proper interpretation of the
institution of sacrifice, 721
is it to be interpreted according to notions derived from
Jewish or heathen sacrifices? 728
theories of, 728-766
Socinian (example) theory, 728, 729
objections to above, 735-740
Bushnellian (moral influence) theory, 733-735
objections to above, 735-740
Grotian (governmental) theory of, 740, 741
Irvingian (gradually extirpated depravity) theory of, 744, 745
objections to theory, 745-747
Anselmic (commercial) theory of, 747, 748
Military theory of, 747
objections to, 748-750
Criminal theory of, 748
the Ethical theory of, 750-771
a true theory of, resolves two problems, 750, 751
grounded in holiness of God, 751
a satisfaction of an ethical demand of the divine nature, 751,
752, 753
substitution in, an operation of grace, 752
the righteousness of law maintained in, 752
maintains, as a first subordinate result, the interests of the
divine government, 753
provides, as a second subordinate result, for the needs of
human nature, 753
the classical passage with reference to, 753
sets forth Christ as so related to humanity that he is under
obligation to pay and does pay, 754
explains how the innocent can suffer for the guilty in, 755,
756, 757
Andover theory of, 756
by one whose nature was purified, but his obligation to suffer
undiminished, 757
the guilt resting on Christ in, what it was, 645, 646, 757
as a member of the race, did he not suffer in, for his own
sin?, 758
showed what had been in the heart of God from eternity, 758
explanations of Christ's identification with humanity as a
reason why he made, 759-761
exposition of 2 Cor. 5:21, 760
grounded in the holiness and love of God, 761
is accomplished through the solidarity of the race, and Christ
the common life, bearing guilt for men, 761
ground of, on the part of man, 761
rather revealed than made by incarnate Christ, 762, 763
Ethical theory of, philosophically correct, 764
combines the valuable elements of other theories, 764
shows most satisfactorily how demands of holiness are met, 764
presents only explanation of sacrificial rites and language,
765
alone gives proper place to death of Christ, 765
is best explanation of sufferings of Christ, 765
satisfies most completely the ethical demand of human nature,
765, 766
objected to, as inconsistent with God's omnipotence or love,
766
objected to, as presented ideas mutually exclusive, 767
objected to, as obviating real propitiation, 768
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objected to, as an act of injustice, 768
objected to, because transfer of punishment is impossible, 768,
769
objected to, because the remorse implied in it, was impossible
to Christ, 769
objected to, because sufferings finite in time cannot satisfy
infinite demands of law, 769, 770
objected to, that it renders Christ's active obedience
superfluous, 770
objected to, as immoral in tendency, 770
objected to, as requiring faith to complete a satisfaction
which ought to be itself perfect, 771
extent of, 771-773
unlimited, 771
its application limited, 771
passages asserting its special efficacy, 771
passages asserting its sufficiency for all, 771
secures for all men delay in execution of sentence against sin,
772
has made objective provision for all, 772, 773
has procured for all incentives to repentance, 773
limited, advocates of, 773
universal, advocates of, 773
Attributes, divine, see
God.
mental, higher than those of matter, inference from, 92
Aurignac Cave, its evidence doubtful, 532
Australian languages, their affinities, 479
Automatic, mental activity largely, 550
“Automatic
excellence or badness,” 611
Avatars, Hindu, 187
Christ's incarnation unlike, 698
Balaam, inspired, yet unholy, 207
Baptism and Lord's Supper, only accounted for as monuments, 157
the formula of, correlates Christ's name with God's, 312
according to Romish church, 522
of Jesus, its import, 761, 762, 942
Christian, definition of, 931
instituted by Christ, 931
of universal and perpetual obligation, 931
ignored by Salvation Army and Society of Friends, 931
John's recognized by Christ, 931, 932
John's, was it a modification of a previously existing rite?,
931, 932
proselyte, its existence discussed, 931, 932
John's, essentially Christian baptism, 732
made the law of the church, 932
Christian, complementally related to Lord's Supper, is of equal
permanency, 932, 933
its mode, immersion, 933
meaning of its original word, according to Greek usage, 933,
934
meaning of original word as determined by contextual relation,
934
meaning of original word determined by voice used with
'water,', 935
meaning of original word determined by prepositional
connections, 935
meaning of original word derived from circumstances, 935
original meaning of word determined from figurative allusions,
936
original meaning of word determined by practice of early
church, 936
occasional change in its mode permitted for seeming sufficient
reason at an early date, 936
original meaning of word determined by usage of Greek church,
937, 938
Dr. Dods' statement as to its mode, 938
concession to its original method of observance in the
introduction of baptisteries or “fontgraves” into non Baptist places
of worship, 938
the church, being only an executive body, cannot modify
Christ's law concerning, 939
the law of, fundamental, and therefore unalterable save by
Legislator himself, 939
any modification of, by church, implies unwisdom in Appointer
of rite, 939
any change in mode vacates ordinance of its symbolic
significance, 939
objections to its mode, immersion, 940
if its mode impracticable, ordinance not a duty, 940
when its mode dangerous, ordinance not to be performed, 940
the mode of baptism decently impressive, 940
the ordinance symbolizing suffering and death is consistently
somewhat inconvenient, 940
God's blessing on an irregular administration of, no sanction
of irregularity, 940
its symbolism, 940-945
what it symbolizes is general, 940
it symbolizes death and burial of Christ, 940
it symbolizes union with Christ, 941
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it symbolizes atonement and redemption, 941
it symbolizes to the believer being baptized his spiritual
death and resurrection, 941
it symbolizes union of believers with each other, 942
it symbolizes the death and resurrection of the body, 942
the central truth, set forth by, 942
a correlative truth set forth by, 943
sets forth purification through communion with death of Christ,
944
symbolizes regenerating power of Jesus' death, 944
immersion in, alone symbolizes the passage from death unto life
in regeneration and communion with Christ in his death and
rising, 944
the substituting for the correct mode of, one which excludes
all reference to Christ's death destroys the ordinance, 944
is a historical monument, 945
is a pictorial expression of doctrine, 945
and Lord's Supper, 945
subjects of, 945-959
the proper subjects of, 945
those only to be baptized who have first been made disciples,
945
those only to be baptized who have repented and believed, 945
those only to be baptized who can be members of the church, 945
those only to be baptized for whom the symbolism is valid, 946
not a means of regeneration, 946
the spiritual and the ritual so combined in, that the whole
ordinance may be designated by its outward aspect, 946
as a being “born of water,” 946
connected with repentance “for the remission of sins,”, 946
without baptism, discipleship incomplete, and ineffective, 947
the teachings of Campbellism regarding, 947, 948
act of person baptized, 948
before it is administered, church should require evidence that
candidates are regenerated, 949
incorrectly called “door into the church,”, 949
as expressive of inward character of candidate, 950
as regeneration is once for all, baptism must not be repeated,
950
as outward expression of inward change, is the first of all
duties, 950
should follow regeneration with least possible delay, 950
if an actual profession of faith, not to be repeated, 950
accessories to, matters of individual judgment, 951
its formula, 951
Infant, 951-959
without warrant in scripture, 951
has no express command, 951
no clear example, 951
passages held to imply it, have no reference thereto, 951
expressly contradicted, 952
in it the prerequisites of faith and repentance impossible, 952
in it the symbolism of baptism has lost significance, 952
its practice inconsistent with constitution of the church, 952
is unharmonious with prerequisites to the Lord's Supper, 952
has led in Greek Church to infant communion, 953
denied by the Paulicians, 953
the reasons of its rise and spread, 953
a necessary concomitant of a State Church, 954
founded on unscriptural and dangerous reasonings, 954
it assumes power of church to tamper with Christ's commands,
954
contradicts New Testament ideas of church, 954
assumes a connection of parent and child closer and more
influential than facts of Scripture and experience will
support, 954, 955
its propriety urged on various unsettled grounds, 956
does it make its subjects members of the church?, 956
its evil effects, 957-959
forestalls any voluntary act, 957
induces superstitious confidence, 957
has led to baptism of irrational and material things, 957
has obscured and corrupted Christian truth, 958
is often an obstacle to evangelical views, 958
merges church in nation and world, 958
substitutes for Christ's command an invention of men, 958, 959
literature concerning, 959