Golden Age, classic references to, 526
Good deeds of an unregenerated man, how related to the tenor of
his life, 814
Goodness of God, witness to among heathen, 113
Gospel, testimony of, conformable with experience, 173
its initial successes, a proof of its divine origin, 191
makes men moral, 863
Gospels, run counter to Jewish ideas, 156
superior in literary character to contemporary writings, 158
their relation to a historical Christ, 159
coincidence of their statements with collateral circumstances,
173, 174
Gottesbewusstsein, knowledge
of God, 63
Government, common, not necessary in church of Christ, 913
Government, church, 903-926
Grace, supplements law as the expression of the whole nature of
the lawgiver, 547, 548, 752
without works on the sinner's part, and without necessity on
God's, 548
an expression of the heart of God, beyond law, and in Christ,
548
does not abrogate but reinforces and fulfils law, 548
secures fulfilment of law by removing obstacles to pardon in
the divine mind, and enabling man to obey, 548
has its law which subsumes but transcends “the law of sin and
death,” 548
has its place between the Pelagian and Rationalistic ideas of
penalty, 548
a revelation partly of law, but chiefly of love, 549
the Pelagian idea of, 598
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universal, according to Wesley, 603
what, from the Arminian point of view, 605
may afford sinners a better security for salvation than if they
were Adams, 635
a kingdom of, 775
men as sinners, its objects, 778
certain sinful men chosen to be recipients of special, 779
“unmerited
favor to sinners,” 779
more may be equitably bestowed on one man than on another, 779
Gracious Ability, 602-604
Guilt, defined, 614, 644
how related to sin, 644, 645
how incurred, 644
not mere liability to penalty, 644
constructive, has no place in divine government, 644
to be distinguished from depravity, 645, 762
is obligation to satisfy outraged holiness of God, 645
of sin, how set forth in Scripture, 645
how Christ may have, without depravity, 645
and depravity, reatus and macula, 645
of race, how Christ bears, 646, 759
not to be confounded with the consciousness of, 647
first a relation to God, then to conscience, 647
administers its own anesthetics, 647
degrees of, 648-652
degrees of, set forth in Mosaic ritual, 648
casuistical refinements upon, not to be regarded, 648
variety of award in Judgment explained by degrees in, 648
measured by men's opportunities and powers, 649
measured by the energy of evil will, 649
measured by degrees of unreceptiveness in soul, 650
of race, shared in by Christ, 759
imparted and imputed to Christ, 759
Habit and character, 1049
“Hands of the
Living God,” what? 539
Heart, its meaning in Scripture, 4
Heathen, the, their virtues, what? 570
may be saved who have not heard the gospel, 664, 843
their religious systems corrupting, 666
whatever good in their religions, God in, 666
in proportion to their culture, become despairing, 666
have an external revelation, 666
instances of apparently regenerated, 843, 844
Heathenism, a negative preparation for redemption, 665, 666
partly a positive preparation for redemption, 665
in it Christ as Logos or immanent God revealed himself in
conscience and history, 665
had the starlight of religious knowledge, 666
their religions not the direct work of the devil, 666
authors on heathenism as an evangelical preparation, 666
Heaven, conception of, 1030
elements of its happy perfection, 1031
rewards in, equal yet various, 1031
is deliverance from defective physical organization and
circumstances, 1031
its rest, 1031
how perfect on entering, 1031
a city, 1031
its love, 1031
its activities, 1031
is it a place as well as a state? 460, 1032
probably a place, 460, 1032
may be a state, 460
the essential presence of Christ's body would imply place, 1032
is it on a purified and prepared earth? 1032, 1033
Hebrews, genuineness and authorship, 152
anti-Ebionite, 669
Hell, essentially an inward condition, 460, 1034
the outward corresponds with inward, 1034
the pains of, not necessarily positive inflictions of God, 1035
is not an endless succession of sufferings, 1035
its extent and scope, 1052
compared with heaven, narrow and limited, 1052
only a spot, a corner in the universe, 1052
Heredity, none in the race to predetermine self-consciousness,
467
some facts which heredity cannot explain, 471
often presents a product differing from both the producing
agents, 492
its influence in fiction, 492
laws of, simply descriptions not explanations, 493
illustrations of heredity, 495, 496
cause of variations in, discussed, 497
Weismann's views of, 466, 497, 631
works for theology, 621, 632
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is God working in us, 624
the law by which living beings tend to reproduce themselves in
their descendants, 625
the scientific attitude of mind in regard to, 632
the opposing views of, illustrated, 632
the conclusion best warranted by science in relation to, 632
when modifications are transmitted by, 632
may be intensified by individual action, 632
has given new currency to doctrine of “Original Sin,” 636
Hingewandt zu, Dorner's
translation of πρός in John 1:3, 337
Hipparion, the two-toed horse, 472
Holiness of God, see
God.
Holy Spirit, 13, 337
organ of internal revelation, 13, 337
recognized as God, 315
possession of, 322, 343
is a person, 323
his work other than that of Christ, 338, 339
sin against, 648, 650-652
relation to Christ in his state of humiliation, 669, 697, 703
application of redemption through work of, 777-886
Host, Romish adoration of, 968
“Host,”
Scriptural use of, 448
Humanity, capable of religion, 58
full concept of, marred in First Adam, realized in Second, 678
its exaltation in Christ, the experience of his people, 707
justified in Christ's justification, 862
Humanity of Christ, 673-681
atonement as related to, 754-763
Humiliation of Christ, 701-706
Hyperphysical communication between minds perhaps possible,
1021
“I Am,”
as a Divine title, 253
Idea of God, origin of our, 52-70
Ideal human nature in Christ, 678
Idealism, its view of revelation, 11, 12
Idealism, Materialistic, 95-100
Ideas have decided fate of world, 426
Identity, Edwards's theory of, 607
what it consists in, 1020-1023
Idolatry, 7, 133, 251, 457, 532, 968
Ignorance, sins of, 554, 649
invincible, 967
Ignorantia legis neminem
excusat, 558
Image, what it suggests, 335, 514
and likeness, 520
Image of God, in what it consisted, 514
its natural element, 514
its moral element, 514
personality, an element in, 515
holiness, an element in, 515, 516
its original righteousness, 517, 518
not confined to personality, 519, 520
not consisting in a natural capacity for religion, 520-523
reflects itself in physical form, 523
in soul proprie, in body
significative, 523
subjects sensuous impulses to control of spirit, 523, 524
gives dominion over lower creation, 524
secures communion with God, 524, 525
had suitable surroundings and society, 525
furnished with tests of virtue, 526
had associated with it, an opportunity of securing physical
immortality, 527
combated by those who hold that civilization has proceeded from
primitive savagery, 527-531
combated by those who hold that religion begins in fetichism,
531, 532
Immortality, metaphysical argument for, 984, 985
teleological argument for, 986, 987
ethical argument for, 987, 988
historical argument, 989
widespread belief in, 989, 990
a general appetency for, 990
idea of, congruous with our nature, 990
authors for and against, 991
maintained on Scriptural grounds, 991-998
an inference from the intuition of the existence of God, 996
the resurrection of Jesus Christ the most conclusive proof of,
997
Christ taught, 997
Imputatio metaphysica, 615
Imputation of Adam's sin to his posterity, 593-637
taught in Scripture, 593
two questions demanding answer, 593
the meaning of the phrase, 354
has a realistic basis in Scripture, 594
two fundamental principles in, 595
theories of New and Old Schools, 596, 597
theories of, 597-637
Pelagian theory of, considered, 597-601
Arminian theory of, considered, 601-606
New School theory of, considered, 606-612
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Federal theory of, considered, 612-616
Mediate theory of, 616-619
Augustinian theory of, considered, 619-637
grounded on organic unity of mankind, 619
tabular views, 628
objections to Augustinian theory, 629-637
authors on, 637
of sin to Christ, grounded on a real union, 758
of Christ's righteousness to us, grounded on a real union, 805,
862
Indwelling of God, 693, 798
Infant salvation, 602, 609
doctrine of, 660-664
is assured, 661
its early advocates, 664
leads to the conclusion that no one is lost solely for sin of
nature, 664
Infanticide might have been encouraged by too definite
assurances of infant salvation, 663
Infants, their death proves their sinful nature, 579
are regarded by some as animals, 579, 611, 957
are unregenerate and in a state of sin, 661
relatively innocent, 661
objects of special divine care, 661, 662
chosen by Christ to eternal life, 662
salvation assured to those who die prior to moral
consciousness, 662
in some way receive and are united to Christ, 662
at final judgment among the saved, 662
regeneration effected at soul's first view of Christ, 663
Inference, its nature and kinds, 66
Infirmity, sins of, 649, 650
Innate or connate ideas, what?, 54
Insitæ vel potius innatæ
cogitationes, 53
Inspiration of Scripture, 196-242
definition of, 196-198
defined by result, 196
may include revelation, 196
may include illumination, 196
list of works on, 198
proof of, 198
presumption in favor of, 198
of the O. T., vouched for by Jesus, 199
promised by Jesus, 199, 200
claimed by the apostles, 200, 201
attested by miracle or prophecy, 201
chief proof of, internal characteristics, 201
theories of, 202-222
the Intuition-theory of, 202
this theory of, its doctrinal connections, 202
this theory of, uses only man's natural insight, 203
this theory of, denies to man's insight, vitiated in matters of
religion and morals, an indispensable help, 203
this theory of, is self-contradictory, 203
is “the growth
of the Divine through the capacities of the human,”, 204
this theory of, makes moral and religious truth purely
subjective, 204
this theory of, practically denies a God who is Truth and its
Revealer, 204
the Illumination-theory of, 204
this theory of, its doctrinal connections, 204
this theory of, principal advocates of, 205
in some cases amounted only to illumination, 206
more than an illumination, which cannot account for revelation
of new truth, 206
if illumination only, cannot secure writers from serious error,
207
as mere illumination can enlighten truth already imparted but
not impart it, 207
the Dictation-theory of, 208
this theory of, its doctrinal connections, 208
this theory of, its principal advocates, 208
this theory of, post-reformation, 209
this theory of, covers the few cases in which definite words
were used with the command to write them down, 209
this theory of, rests on an imperfect induction of Scriptural
facts, 210
this theory of, fails to account for the human element in
Scripture, 210
this theory of, spendthrift in means, as dictating truth
already known to recipient, 210
this theory of, reduces man's highest spiritual experience to
mechanism, 210
the Dynamical theory of, 211-222
distinguished from other theories of, 211
no theory of, necessary to Christian faith, 211
union of the Divine and human elements in, 212-222
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its mystery, the union of the divine and human, 212
and hypnotic suggestion, 212
the speaking and writing the words of God from within, in the
conscious possession and exercise of intellect, emotion and
will, 212
pressed into service all the personal peculiarities,
excellencies and defects of its subjects, 213
uses all normal methods of literary composition, 214
may use even myth and legend, 214
a gradual evolution, 214, 215
the divine side of what on its human side is discovery, 215
does not guarantee inerrancy in things not essential to its
purpose, 215
in it God uses imperfect means, 215
is divine truth in historical and individually conditioned
form, 216
did not directly communicate the words which its subjects
employed, 216
has permitted no form of words which would teach essential
error, 216
verbal, refuted by two facts, 216
constitutes its Scriptures an organic whole, 217
develops a progressive system with Christ as centre, 217
furnishes, in the Bible as a whole, a sufficient guide to truth
and salvation, 218
overstatement of, has made sceptics, 218
constitutes Scripture an authority, but subordinate to the
ultimate authority, Christ, 219
three cardinal principles regarding, 220
three common questions regarding, 220, 221
objections to the doctrine of, 222-242
objected to, on the ground of errors in secular matters, 222
said to be erroneous in its science, 223
reply to above allegation against, 223-226
said to be erroneous in its history, 226
reply to above allegation against, 226-229
said to be erroneous in its morality, 230
reply to above allegation against, 230-232
said to be erroneous in its reasoning, 232
reply to above allegation against, 232, 233
said to be erroneous in quotation and interpretation, 234
reply to above allegation against, 234, 235
said to be erroneous in its prophecy, 235
reply to above allegation against, 235, 236
admits books unworthy of a place as inspired, 236
reply to above allegation against, 236-238
admits as authentic portions of books written by others than
the persons to whom they are ascribed, 238
reply to above allegation against, 238-240
admits sceptical or fictitious narratives, 240
reply to above allegation against, 240-242
acknowledges non-inspiration of its teachers and writers, 242
reply to above allegation against, 242