CHAPTER II.-CORROBORATIVE EVIDENCES OF GOD'S EXISTENCE,

39-50

PART III.—THE SCRIPTURES A REVELATION FROM GOD, 58-114

CHAPTER I.—PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS,

58-71

I.- Reasons a priori for expecting a Revelation from God, ..........

58-59

4. Amount of Testimony necessary to prove a Miracle,.

64-65

V.- Principles of Historical Evidence applicable to the Proof of

CHAPTER II.-POSITIVE PROOFS THAT THE SCRIPTURES ARE A

DIVINE REVELATION, -

72-114

I.- Genuineness of the Christian Documents..

72-82

1. Genuineness of the Books of the New Testament,

72-80

1st. The Myth-theory of Strauss,

76-77

2d. The Tendency-theory of Baur,

3d. The Romance-theory of Renan, -

77-79

79-80

2. Genuineness of the Books of the Old Testament,.
The Authorship of the Pentateuch,

IV.- Historical Results of the Propagation of Scripture Doctrine,

4. The Dynamical theory,

tion,

3. The Dictation-theory,

IV. The Union of the Divine and Human Elements in Inspira-

V.- Objections to the Doctrine of Inspiration,.

100-102

102

102-104

105-114

5. Errors in Quoting or Interpreting the Old Testament,.

110

6. Errors in Prophecy,

111

7. Certain Books unworthy of a Place in inspired Scripture, 111-112
8. Portions of the Scripture Books written by others than the

Persons to whom they are ascribed,

112-113

9. Sceptical or Fictitious Narratives,

113-114

10. Acknowledgment of the Non-inspiration of Scripture Teach-
ers and their Writings,

114

PART IV. THE NATURE, DECREES, AND WORKS OF GOD, 115–233

CHAPTER I.-THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD,.

I. Definition of the term Attributes,

115-143

115

II. Relation of the Divine Attributes to the Divine Essence,
III.- Methods of Determining the Divine Attributes,

First Division.-Spirituality, and Attributes therein in-

Second Division.-Infinity, and Attributes therein in-

First Division.-Attributes having relation to Time and

1. Veracity and Faithfulness, or Transitive Truth, - -

137

2. Mercy and Goodness, or Transitive Love,

137-138

3. Justice and Righteousness, or Transitive Holiness, 138-140

VII.- Rank and Relations of the several Attributes, .

140-143

1. Holiness the Fundamental Attribute in God,

140-141

2. The Holiness of God the Ground of Moral Obligation,... 141-143
CHAPTER II.-DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY,

144-170

I.-In Scripture there are Three who are recognized as God,... 145-155
1. Proofs from the New Testament,.

145-151

A. Passages which seem to teach Plurality of some
sort in the Godhead,

152-153

II. These Three are so described in Scripture, that we are com-

pelled to conceive of them as distinct Persons,...

155-157

1. The Father and the Son are Persons distinct from
each other,-

155

2. The Father and the Son are Persons distinct from
the Spirit,...

155

3. The Holy Spirit is a Person,

155-157

III.- This Tripersonality of the Divine Nature is not merely eco-
nomic and temporal, but is immanent and eternal, 157-159
1. Scripture Proof that these distinctions of Personality
are eternal, ... ... ... ...

2. Errors refuted by the Scripture Passages,.

157-158

158-159

158-159

159

While there are three Persons, there is but one Essence,

1. These Titles belong to the Persons,

159-161

161-166

161-162

2. Qualified Sense of these Titles, -

162-164

I.-Definition of Decrees,-

3. Generation and Procession consistent with Equality,

VI. The Doctrine of the Trinity inscrutable, yet not self-contra-
dictory, but the Key to all other Doctrines,

1. The Mode of this Triune Existence is inscrutable,.
2. The Doctrine of the Trinity is not self-contradictory,

3. The Doctrine of the Trinity has important Relations to
other Doctrines,

CHAPTER III.-THE DECREES OF GOD,.

II. Proof of the Doctrine of Decrees,

1. From Scripture,

2. From Reason,

A. From the Divine Foreknowledge,..

B. From the Divine Wisdom, .

175

C.

From the Divine Immutability,

175

D. From the Divine Benevolence,

III.-Objections to the Doctrine of Decrees,

175-176

176-181

1. That they are inconsistent with the Free Agency of Man, 176-178

2. That they take away all Motive for Human Exertion,

3. That they make God the Author of Sin,..

IV. Concluding Remarks, -

1. Practical Uses of the Doctrine of Decrees,

2. True Method of Preaching the Doctrine,

CHAPTER IV.- THE WORKS OF GOD, OR THE EXECUTION OF THE

178-179

179-181

181-182

181

181-182

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VI. Relation of the Doctrine of Creation to other Doctrines,... 198-202

III.-Theories which virtually deny the Doctrine of Preservation, 204-206

PART V.- ANTHROPOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF MAN, 234–357

CHAPTER II.- THE ORIGINAL STATE OF MAN,.

I.- Essentials of Man's Original State,..

1. Natural Likeness to God, or Personality,

2. Moral Likeness to God, or Holiness, -
A. The Image of God as including only Personality, 264-265
B. The Image of God as consisting simply in Man's

Natural Capacity for Religion,.

II. Incidents of Man's Original State,

265-267
267-272

1. Results of Man's Possession of the Divine Image, 267-268
2. Concomitants of Man's Possession of the Divine Image, 268-269
1st. The Theory of an Original Condition of Savagery, 269-271
2nd. The Theory of Comte as to the Stages of Human

Progress,.

271-272

244-248

248-254

248-250

250-252

252-254

254-260

254-257

257-260

261-272

261-267

262

262-263