Natural Selection, artificial after all, 93
its teaching, 470
is partially true, 470
is not a complete explanation of the history of life, 470
gives no account of origin of substance or variations, 470
by the survival does not explain the
arrival of the fittest, 470
does not explain the sudden and apparently independent
appearance of important geologic forms, 470
certain entomological and anatomical facts are inexplicable
upon the theory of, 471
fails to explain the beauty in lower forms of life, 471
no species has as yet been produced by either artificial or,
472
does not necessarily make the idea of Creator superfluous, 473
may account for man's place in, but not above, nature, 473
requires, according to Wallace, a superior intelligence to
guide in definite direction or for special purpose, 473
a list of authors upon, 474
atheistically taught, is election with hope and pity left out,
784
Natural theology, what?, 260
Nature, its usual sense, 26, 121
its proper sense, 26, 121
its witness to God, outward and inward, 26
argument for God's existence from change in, 73-75
argument for God's existence from useful collocation in, 75-80
Mill's indictment of, 78
apart from man, cannot be interpreted, 79
does not assure us of God's love and provision for the sinner,
113, 114
by itself furnishes a presumption against miracles, 124
as synonym of substance, 243
according to Schleiermacher, 287
its forces, dependent and independent, 414
the brute submerged in, 468
human, why it should be reverenced, 515
in what sense sin a, 518
as something inborn, 518, 577, 578
the race has a corrupted nature, 577-582
sinful acts and dispositions explained by a corrupt, 577
a corrupt, belongs to man from first moment of his being, 578
a corrupt, underlies man's consciousness, 578
a corrupt, which cannot be changed by a man's own power, 578
a corrupt, the common heritage of the race, 578
designates, not substance, but corruption of substance, 578
how responsible for a depraved, which one did not personally
originate, 593
human, Pelagian view of, 598
human, semi-Pelagian view of, 598
human, Augustinian view of, 598
human, organic view of, 600
human, atomistic view of, 600
the whole human race once a personality in Adam, 629
human, can apostatize but once, 630
human, totally depraved, 637-639
man can to a certain extent modify his, 642
sin of, and personal transgression, 648
impersonal human, 694
and person, 694, 695
Robinson's definition of, 695
human, is it to develop into new forms, 986
“Nature of
things, in the,” the phrase examined, 357
Necessitarian philosophy, correct for the brute, 468
Negation, involves affirmation, 9
Neron
Kaisar, and “666”, 1009
Neutrality, moral, never created by God, 521
moral, a sin, 521
New England theology, 48, 49
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New School theology, 48, 49, 606
its definition of holiness, 271, 272
its definition of sin, how it differs from that of Old School,
549, 550
ignores the unconscious and subconscious elements in human
character, 550
its watchword as to sin, 595
its theory of imputation, an evasion, 596
its theory of imputation explained, 606, 607
development of its theory of inspiration, 607, 608
modifications of view within, 608
contradicts Scripture, 608, 609
its advocates cannot understand Paul, 609
rests upon false philosophical principles, 609, 610
impugns the justice of God, 610, 611
inconsistent with facts, 611, 612
its aim that of all the theories of imputation, 612
Nihil in intellectu nisi quod ante fuerit
in sensu, 63
Nineveh, winged creatures of, 449
Nomina become numina, 245
Nominalism inconsistent with Scripture, 244
Nominalist notion of God's nature, 244
Non-apostolic writings recommended by apostles, 201
Non-inspiration, seeming, of certain Scriptures, 242
“Nothing,
creation out of,”, 372
Notitia, an element in
faith, 837
Noumenon in external and
internal phenomena, 6
Nullus in microcosmo spiritus, nullus in
macrocosmo Deus, 79
Obduracy, sins of, incomplete and final, 650
Obedience, Christ's active and passive, 749, 770
“Obey,”
not the imperative of religion, 21
Obligation to obey law based on man's original ability, 541
Offences between men, 766
between church members, 924, 925
Old School theology, 49, 606, 607
Omission, sins of, 554, 648
Omne vivum e vivo
(ex ovo), 389
Omnia mea mecum porto, 1032
Omnipotence of God, 286-288
Omnipresence of God, 279-282
Omnipresent, how God might cease to be, 282
Omniscience of God, 282-286
“One eternal
now,” how to be understood, 277
Ontological argument for existence of God, 85-89
Ordinances of the church, 929-980
Ordination of church officers, 918-929
Organic and organized substances, 93
Organic, the, and atomistic views of human nature, 600
Original “image of God” in man, its nature,
514-523
Original natural likeness to God, or personality, 515, 519, 520
moral likeness to God, man's, or holiness, 516-518
righteousness, what? 517, 518
knowledge of God, man's, implied a direction of the affections
and will toward God, 519
sin, as held by Old School theologians, 49
two-fold problem of, 593
its definition, 594, 595
two principles fundamental to consideration of, 595
a correct view of race-responsibility essential to a correct
view of, 595
some facts in connection with the guilt of, 596
substance of Scriptural teaching concerning, 625-627
a misnomer, if applied to any theory but that of its author,
Augustine, 636
no one finally condemned merely on account of, 596, 663, 664
state of man, 514-533
essentials of, 514-522
results of, 523-525
concomitants of, 525-532
Romish and Protestant views of, 521, 522
Os
sublime, manifestation of internal endowments,
523
Pain, physical, existed before entrance of moral evil into
world, 402
this supralapsarian pain, how to be regarded, 402
due not to God, but to man, 402
verdicts declarative of the secondary place of, 402
cannot explain its presence here by the good it may do, 403
it is God's protest against sin, 403
has its reason in the misconduct of man, 403
supralapsarian pain an “anticipative consequence,”, 403
God's frown upon sin, and warning against it, 403
Pantheism, Idealistic, defined, 100
the elements of truth in, 100
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its error, 100
denies real existence of the finite, 100
deprives the infinite of self-consciousness and freedom, 100
in it the worshiped is the worshiper, 100
the later Brahmanism is, 100
the fruit of absence of will and longing for rest as end of
existence, as among Hindus, 100
in Hegelianism, presents the alternative, no God or no man, 100
of Hegel and Spinoza, 100, 101
of Hegel, its different interpreters, 101
of Hegel, as modified by Schopenhauer, 101
its idea of God self-contradictory, 101, 102
its asserted unity of substance without proof, 102
it assigns no sufficient cause for highest fact of universe,
personal intelligence, 102
it contradicts the affirmations of our moral and religious
nature, 103
antagonizes our intuitive conviction of the absolute perfection
of God, 104
its objection that in eternity there was not not-self over
against the Infinite to call forth self-consciousness, without
foundation, 104
denies miracle, 122
denies inspiration, 204
anti-trinitarianism leads to, 347
involved in doctrine of emanation, 383
assumes that law fully expresses God, 547
should worship Satan, 566
at basis of Docetism, 676
not involved in doctrine of Union with Christ, 800
Paradoxon summum
evangelicum, 753
Pardon, limited by atonement, objections to, refuted, 766
its conditions can of right be assigned by God, 767
the act of God as judge in justification, 855
and justification distinguished, 858, 859
through Christ, honors God's justice and mercy, 860
Parsimony, law of, 74, 87
Passion, the, necessitated by Christ's incarnation, 760
Passover, 157, 723, 726, 960
Pastor, 908, 914, 915, 917
“Pastors and
teachers,”, 915
Pelagianism, a development of rationalism, 89
its theory of imputation, 597-601
its principal author and present advocates, 597
its exposition, 597
its view of Romans 5:12, 597
its seven points, 597
its sinless men, 597
its “non pleni nascimur,”,
597
its misinterpretation of the divine influence in man, 597
is deism applied to man's nature, 598
ignores his dignity and destiny, 598
unformulated and sporadic, 598
unscriptural, 598, 599
a survival of paganism, 598
its key doctrine: Homo libero arbitrio emancipatus a
Deo, 598
its unscriptural tenets specified, 598, 599
regards sins as isolated volitions, 599
its method contrasted with that of Augustinianism, 599
presents an Ebionitic view of Christ, 599
its principles false in philosophy, 600
ignores law by which acts produce states, 600
Penalty, what?, 294, 652, 653
Penalty, 652-660
its idea, 652
more than natural consequences of transgression, 652
not essentially reformatory, 653
what essentially?, 653
not essentially to secure social or governmental safety, 653,
655
not essentially deterrent, 655
of sin, two-fold, 656
of sin, is physical death, 656-659
of sin, is spiritual death, 659, 660
Pentateuch (Hexateuch), its authorship, 170-172
literature upon, 172
Perfect, as applied to men, 574
Perfection, in God, 9, 260-275
of Christian and church reached in world to come, 981
Perfectionism, its tenet, 877
its teachers, 877
its modifications, 877
authorities upon, 877
its fundamental false conceptions, 877, 878
is contradicted by Scripture, 878-886
disproved by Christian experience, 880
how best met, 880, 881
Permanent states of the faculties, 506, 550, 551
Perseverance, human side of sanctification, 868, 881
definition, 881
its proof from Scripture, 882
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its proof from reason, 882, 883
is not inconsistent with human freedom, 883
does not tend to immorality, 883, 884
does not lead to indolence, 884
the Scriptural warnings against apostasy do not oppose it, 884,
885
apparent instances of apostasy do not oppose it, 885, 886
list of authors on general subject of, 886
“Person” in doctrine of Trinity, only
approximately accurate, 330
Person, how communicated in different measures, 324
Person and character of Christ, as proof of revelation, 186-190
Person of Christ, the doctrine of, 669-700
historical survey of views regarding, 669-673
the two natures in their reality and integrity, 673-683
the union of the two natures in one, 683-700
Personal identity, 92, 417
intelligences cannot be accounted for by pantheism, 102
influence, often distinct from word spoken, 820
Personality, defined, 82, 252, 253, 330, 335, 515, 695
of God, the conclusion of the anthropological argument, 84
of God, denied by pantheism, 100
the highest dependent on infiniteness, 104
self-conscious and self-determining, 253
triple, in Godhead, consistent with essential unity, 330
in man, inalienable, 515
involves boundless possibilities, 515
foundation of mutual love among men, 515
constitutes a capacity for redemption, 515