Creation, God's end in, 397-402
God's end in, his own glory, 398
God's chief end in, the manifestation of his glory, 398
his glory most valuable end in, 399
his glory only end in, consistent with his independence and
sovereignty, 399
his glory the end in, which secures every interest of the
universe, 400
his glory the end in, because it is the end proposed to his
creatures, 401
its final value, its value for God, 402
the doctrine of, its relation to other doctrines, 402-410
its relation to the holiness and benevolence of God, 402
first, in what senses “very good,”, 402
pain and imperfection in, before moral evil, reasons for, 402
sets forth wisdom and free-will of God, 404
Christ in, the Revealer of God, and the remedy of pessimism,
405
presents God in Providence and Redemption, 407
gives value to the Sabbath, 408
Creation of man, exclusively a fact of Scripture, 465
Scripture declares it an act of God, 465
Scripture silent on method of, 465
Scripture does not exclude mediate creation of body, if this
method probable from other sources, 465, 491
and theistic evolution, 466
his soul, its creation, though mediate, yet immediate, 466, 491
not from brute, but from God, through brute, 467, 469, 472
the last stage in the development of life, 469
unintelligible unless the immanent God is regarded as giving
new impulses to the process, 470
as to soul and body, in a sense immediate, 470
natural selection, its relations to, 470
by laws of development, which are methods of the Creator, 472
when finished presents, not a brute, but a man, 472
constitutes him the offspring of God, and God his Father, 474
as taking place through Christ, made its product a son of God
by relationship to the Eternal Son, 474
theory of its occurrence at several centres, 481
and his new creation compared, 694
in it body made corruptible, soul incorruptible, 991
Creation, continuous, its doctrine, 415
its advocates, 416
the element of truth in, 416
its error, 416
contradicts consciousness, 416
exaggerates God's power at expense of other attributes, 417
renders personal identity inexplicable, 417
tends to pantheism, 417
Credo quia impossibile est,
34
Crime best prevented by conviction of its desert of punishment, 655
Crimen læsæ
majestatis, 748
Criticism, higher, 169-172
what it means, 169
influenced by spirit in which conducted, 169, 170
its teachings on Pentateuch and Hexateuch, 170
reveals God's method in making up record of his revelation, 172
literature upon, 172
Cur Deus Homo, synopsis of,
748
“Curse”
in Gal. 3:13, 760
“Custom,
immemorial,” binding, 970
“Damn,”
its present connotation acquired from impression made on
popular mind by Scriptures, 1046
“Damnation” in 1 Cor. 11:22, its
meaning, 960
Darwinism, its teaching, 470
its truth, 470
is not a complete explanation of the history of life, 470
fails to account for origin of substance and of variations, 470
does not take account of sudden appearance in the geological
record of important forms of life, 470
leaves gap between highest anthropoid and lowest specimen of
man unspanned, 471
fails to explain many important facts in heredity, 471
must admit that natural selection has not yet produced a
species, as far as we know, 472
as its author understood it, was not opposed to the Christian
faith, 473
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Day in Gen. 1, 35
its meaning, 223, 224, 394, 395
Deacons, their duties, 917, 918
ordination of, 919
Dead, Christ's preaching to, 707, 708
Dead, Egyptian Book of the, 995
extracts from, 995
resurrection in, 1022
judgment in, 1024
“Deadly sins,
the seven,” of Romanism, 571, 572
Death, spiritual, a consequence of the Fall, 591
spiritual, in what it consists, 591, 659, 660, 982
physical, its nature, 656, 982
physical, a part of the penalty of sin proved from Scripture,
656, 657
and sin complemental, 657
a natural law, on occasion of man's sin, appointed to a moral
use, 657
the liberator of souls, 658
the penalty of sin, proved from reason, 658
its universality how alone explained consistently with idea of
God's justice, 658
not a necessary law of organized being, 658
higher being might have been attained without its intervention,
658
to Christian not penalty, but chastisement and privilege, 659,
983, 984
eternal, what?, 660
second, 648, 982, 983, 1013
not cessation of being, 984
as dissolution, cannot affect indivisible soul, 984
as a cessation of consciousness preparatory to other
development, considered, 986
cannot terminate the development for which man was made, 986
cannot so extinguish being that no future vindication of God's
moral government is possible, 987
cannot, by annihilation, falsify the testimony of man's nature
to immortality, 989
man's body only made liable to, 991
as applied to soul, designates an unholy and unhappy state of
being, 992
consciousness after, indicated in many Scriptures, 993, 994
a “sleep,”, 994
of two kinds, 1013
its passionless and statuesque tranquility prophetic, 1016
Decree to act not the act, 354, 359
Decree, the divine, permissive in case of evil, 354, 365
Decree, not a cause, 360
of end and means combined, 353, 363, 364
does not efficiently work evil choices in men, 365
to permit sin, and the fact of the permission of sin equally
equitable, 365
to initiate a system in which sin has a place, how consistent
with God's holiness?, 367
Decrees of God, the, 353-370
their definition, 353-355
many to us, yet in nature one plan, 353
relations between, not chronological but logical, 353
without necessity, 353
relate to things outside of God, 53
respect acts, both of God and free creatures, 354
not addressed to creatures, 354
all human acts covered by, 354
none of them read “you shall sin,”, 354
sinful acts of men, how related to, 354
how divided, 355
declared by Scripture to include all things, 355
declared by Scripture to deal with special things and events,
355
proved from divine foreknowledge, 356
respect foreseen results, 356
proved from divine wisdom, 358
proved from divine immutability, 358, 359
proved from the divine benevolence, 359
a ground of thanksgiving, 359
not inconsistent with man's free agency, 359
do not remove motive for exertion, 363
and fate, 363
encourage effort, 364
they do not make God the author of sin, 365
practical uses of the doctrine of, 368
the doctrine of, dear to matured understanding and deep
experience, 368
how the doctrine should be preached, 369
Deism, defined, 414
some of its advocates, 414
an exaggeration of God's transcendence, 414
rests upon a false analogy, 415
a system of anthropomorphism, 415
denies providential interference, 415
tends to atheism, 415
“Delivering to
Satan,” 457
Depravity, explained by a personal act in the previous timeless
state of being, 488
of nature, repented of by Christians, 555
Arminian theory of, 601, 602
New School theory of, 606, 607
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Federal theory of, 612, 613
Augustinian theory of, 619, 620
defined, 637
total, its meaning, 637-639
is subjective pollution, 645, 646
Christ had no, 645, 756-758
of human will, requires special divine influence, 784
of all humanity, 813
Determinatio est negatio, 9
Determinism, 362, 507-510
Deus nescit se quid est quia non est
quid, 244
Deuteronomy, 167-169, 171, 239
Dextra Dei ubique est, 708
Diabolus nullus, nullus
Redemptor, 462
Diatoms, and natural selection, 471
Dichotomous and Dichotomy, see
Man.
Dignity, the plural of, 318
Disciples or Campbellites, 821, 840, 947
Discrepancies, alleged, in Scripture, 107, 108, 173, 174
Divorce, permitted by Moses, 230
Documentary evidence, 141, 142
Dogmatic system implied in Scripture, 15
Domine, quousque? Calvin's
motto, 1008
Douay version, Mat. 26:28 in, 965
Dualism, two forms of, 378
a form of, holds two distinct and co-eternal principles, 378
a history of this form of, 378-380
this form of, presses the maxim ex nihilo
nihil fit too far, 380
this form of, applies the test of inconceivability too rigidly,
380
this form of, unphilosophical, 381
this form of, limits God's power and blessedness, 381
this form of, fails to account for moral evil, 381
another form of, holds the existence of two antagonistic
spirits, 381, 382
this form of, at variance with the Scriptural representation of
God, 382
this form of, opposed to the Scriptural representation of the
Prince of Evil, 382
Ducit quemque voluptas, 299
Duties, our, not all disclosed in revelation, 545
Eden, adapted to infantile and innocent manhood, 583
Education, by impersonal law, and by personal dependence, 434
Efficacious call, its nature, 792, 793
Ego, cognition of it logically precedes that of non ego, 104
Egyptian language, old, its linguistic value, 497
idea of blessedness of future life dependent on preservation of
body, 995
idea of permanent union of soul and body, 1022
way of representing God, 376, 377
knowledge of future state, 995
Einzige, der, every man is,
353
Eldership, plural, 915, 916
Election, its relation to God's decrees, 355
logically subsequent to redemption, 777
not to share in atonement but to special influence of Spirit,
779
doctrine of, 779-790
definition, 779
proof from Scripture, 779-782
statement preliminary to proof, 779
asserted of certain individuals, 780
asserted in connection with divine foreknowledge, 780, 781
asserted to be a matter of grace, 781
connected with a giving by Father to Son of certain persons,
781
connected with union with Christ, 781
connected with entry in the Lamb's Book of Life, 781
connected with allotment as disciples to certain believers, 782
connected with a special call of God, 782
connected with a birth by God's will, 782
connected with gift of repentance and faith, 782
connected with holiness and good works as a gift, 782
Lutheran view of, 782, 783
Arminian view of, 783
a group of views concerning, 783
proved from reason, 783-785
is the purpose or choice which precedes gift of regenerating
grace, 783
is not conditioned on merit or faith in chosen, 784
needed by depravity of human will, 784
other considerations which make it more acceptable to reason,
785
objections to, 785-790
is unjust, 785
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is partial, 786
the ethical side of natural selection, 786
is arbitrary, 787
is immoral, 787, 788
fosters pride, 788
discourages effort, 788, 789
implies reprobation, 789, 790
list of authors on, 790
Elijah, his translation, 995
John the Baptist as, 1013
Elizabeth, Queen, immersed, 937
Emanation theory of origin of universe, 378-383
Empirical theory of morals, truth in, 501
reconciled with intuitional theory, 501
Encratites, deny to woman “the image of God,”, 524
“Enemies,” Rom. 5:10, 719
Energy, mental, life, 252
resisted, force, 252
universe derived from, 252
its change into force is creation, 252
dissipation of, 374, 415
Enghis and Neanderthal crania, 471
Enmity to God, 569, 817, 818