Chapter XXXIII: Part VIII: Eschatology, or the Doctrine of Final Things (9)

Deacons, their duties, 917, 918
ordination of, 919

Deaconesses, 918

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

Delphic oracle, 136

Demons, see Angels, evil.

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
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

Devil, 454, 455

_Dextra Dei ubique est_, 708

_Diabolus nullus, nullus Redemptor_, 462

Diatoms, and natural selection, 471

Dichotomous and Dichotomy, see Man.

_Dies Iræ_, the, 645, 1056

Dignity, the plural of, 318

Disciples or Campbellites, 821, 840, 947

Discrepancies, alleged, in Scripture, 107, 108, 173, 174

Divorce, permitted by Moses, 230

Docetæ, 670

_Doctor angelicus_, 44

_Doctor subtilis_, 45

Doctrine, 17, 33, 34

Documentary evidence, 141, 142

Doddridge’s dream, 453

Dogmatic system implied in Scripture, 15

Dogmatism, 42

_Domine, quousque?_ Calvin’s motto, 1008

_Donum supernaturale_, 522

Dort, Synod of, 614, 777

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

Ebionism, 669

Ebionites, 669, 670

Ecclesiastes, 240

Ecclesiology, 887‐980

Eden, adapted to infantile and innocent manhood, 583

Education, by impersonal law, and by personal dependence, 434

Efficacious call, its nature, 792, 793

“Effulgence,”, 335

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
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

Elohim, 318, 319

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

Endor, woman of, 966

“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

Enoch, translation of, 658, 994

Environment, 426, 1034, 1049

Eophyte and Eozoon, 395

Epicureanism, 91, 184, 299

Error, systems of, suggest organizing superhuman intelligences, 457

Errors in Scripture, alleged, 222‐236

Eschatology, 981‐1056

_Esprit gelé_ (matter) Schelling’s bon mot, 386

Essenes, 787

Esther, book of, 237, 309

“Eternal sin, an,”, 1034, 1048

Eternity, 276

Ethics, how conditioned, 3
Christian and Christian faith inseparable, 636

Eucharist, see Supper, the Lord’s.

Eutaxiology, 75

Eutychians (Monophysites), 672

Eve, 525, 526, 676

Evidence, principles of, 141‐144

Evil, 354, 1053

Evolution, behind that of our own reason stands the Supreme Reason, 25
and revelation constitute nature, 26
an, of Scripture as of natural science, 35
of ideas, not from sense to nonsense, 64
has given man the height fromwhich he can discern stars of moral truth
previously hidden below the horizon, 65
a process, not a power, 76
only a method of God, 76
spells purpose, 76
awake to ends within the universe, but not to the great end of the
universe itself, 76
answers objections by showing the development of useful collocations
from initial imperfections, 78
has reinforced the evidences of intelligence in the universe, 79
transfers cause to an immanent rational principle, 79
a materialized, logical process, 84
of universe inexplicable unless matter is moved from without, 92
extension and, being, having thought and will, reveals itself in, 101
only another name for Christ, 109
views nature as a progressive order consisting of higher levels and
phenomena unknown before, 121
its principle, the Logos or Divine Reason, 123
its continuity that of plan not of force, 128
depends on increments of force with persistency of plan, 123
irreconcilable with Deism and its distant God, 123
the basis and background of a Christianity which believes in a dynamical
universe of which a personal and loving God is the inner
source of energy, 123
implies not the _uniformity_, but _universality_ of law, 126
has successive stages, with new laws coming in, and becoming dominant,
125
of Hegel, a fact but fatalistic, 176
of human society not primarily intellectual, but religious, 194
is developing _reverence_ with its allied qualities, 194
if not recognized in Scripture leads to a denial of its unity, 217
of “Truth—evolvable from the whole, evolved at last painfully,”, 218
has given us a new Bible—a book which has grown, 224, 230, 231
in a progress in prophecy, doctrine and church‐polity seen in Paul’s
epistles, 236
not a tale of battle, but a love‐story, 264
the object of nature, and altruism the object of evolution, 264
explains the world as the return of the highest to itself, 266
in the idea of holiness and love exhibited in the palæontological
struggle for life and for the life of others, 268, 393
is God’s omnipresence in time, 282
of his own being, God not shut up to a necessary, 287
working out a nobler and nobler justice is proof that God is just, 292
a method of Christ’s operation, 311
in its next scientific form will maintain the divineness of man and
exalt Jesus of Nazareth to an eminence secure and supreme,
328
“Father,” more than symbol of the cause of organic, 334
and gravitation, all the laws of, are the work and manifestation of the
present Christ, 337
the conception of God in, leads to a Trinitarian conception, 349
theological, are the heathen trinities stages in?, 352
is a regress terminating in the necessity of a creator, 374
a self, of God, so Stoic monism regarded the world, 389
implies previous involution, 390
assumes initial arrangements containing the possibilities of the order
afterwards evolved, 390
unable to create something out of nothing, 390
the attempt to comprehend the world of experience in terms of
fundamental idealistic postulates, 390
that ignores freedom of God is pantheistic, 390
from the nebula to man, unfolds a Divine Self, 390
but a habitual operation of God, 390
not an eternal or self‐originated process, 391
natural selection without teleological factors cannot account for
biological, 391
and creation, no antagonism between, 391
its limits, 392
Spencer’s definition of, stated and criticized, 392
illustrated in progress from Orohippus to horse of the present, 392
of inorganic forces and materials, an, in this the source of animate
species, yet the Mosaic account of creation not discredited,
392
in all forms of energy, higher and lower, dependent directly on will of
God, 393
the struggle for life to palæontological stages of, the beginning of the
sense of right and justice, 268, 393
the struggle for the life of others in palæontological stages of, the
beginning of altruism, 268, 393
the science of, has strengthened teleology, 397
its flow constitutes the self‐revelation of the Infinite One, 413
process of, easier believed in as a divine self‐evolution than as a
mechanical process, 459
of man, physical and psychical, no exception to process of, yet faith in
God intact, 465
cannot be explained without taking into account the originating agency
of God, 465
does not make the idea of Creator superfluous, 466
theist must accept, if he keep his argument for existence of God from
unity of design, 466
of music depends on power of transmitting intellectual achievements, 466
unintelligible except as immanent God gives new impulses to the process,
470
according to Mivart, it can account neither for body or soul of man, 472
still incomplete, man is still on all fours, 472
an atheistic, a reversion to the savage view, 473
theistic, regards human nature as efflux and reflection of the Divine
Personality, 473
atheistic, satirized, 473
a superior intelligence has guided, 473
phylogenetic, in the creation of Eve, 525
normal, man’s will may induce a counter‐evolution to, 591
the goal of man’s, is Christ, 680
the derivation of spiritual gifts from the Second Adam consonant with,
681
of humanity, the whole, depicted in the Cross and Passion, 716
the process by which sons of God are generated, 967

Example, Christ did not simply set, 732

Exegesis based on trustworthiness of verbal vehicle of inspiration, 216

Exercise‐system of Hopkins and Emmons, 45, 416, 417, 584, 607, 822

Existence of God, see God.

_Ex nihilo nihil fit_, 380

Experience, 28, 63‐65

Expiation, representative, recognized among Greeks, 723

Ezra, his relation to O. T., 167

Fact local, truth universal, 240

Facts not to be neglected, because relations are obscure, 36

Faculties, mental, man’s three, 487

Faith, a higher sort of knowledge, 3
physical science rests on, 3
never opposed to reason, 3
conditioned by holy affection, 3
act of integral soul, 4
can alone furnish material for a scientific theology, 4
not blind, 5
its _fiducia_ includes _notitia_, 5
its place in the Arminian system, 605, 864
in a truth, possible in spite of difficulties to us insoluble, 629
does not save, but atonement which it accepts, 771
saving, is the gift of God, 782
an effect, not cause, of election, 784
involves repentance, 836
defined, 836
analyzed, 837
an intellectual element (_notitia_, _credere Deum_) in, 837
must lay hold of a present Christ, 837
an emotional element (_assensus_, _credere Deo_) in, 837
a voluntary element (_fiducia_, _credere in Deum_) in, 838
self‐surrender to good physician, 838
the reflection of the Divine knowing and willing in man’s finite spirit,
838
its most important element, will, 838
is a bond between persons, 839
appropriates Christ as source of pardon and life, 839
its three elements illustrated, 839
phrases descriptive of, 839
no element in, must be exaggerated at expense of the others, 839
views refuted by a proper conception of, 840
an act of the affections and will, 840
not a purely intellectual state, 841
is a moral act, and involves responsibility, 841
saving, its general and particular objects, 842
is believing in God as far as he has revealed himself, 842,
is it ever produced “without a preacher”? 843, 844
its ground of faith, the external word, 844
its ground of assurance, the Spirit’s inward witness, 844
it is possible without assurance?, 845
necessarily leads to goods works, 846
is not to be confounded with love or obedience, 847
a work and yet excluded from the category of works, 847
instrumental cause of salvation, 847
the intermediate factor between undeveloped tendency toward God and
developed affection for God, 847
must not be confounded with its fruits, 848
the actinic ray, 848
is susceptible of increase, 848
authors on the general subject of, 849
why justified by faith rather than other graces?, 864
not with the work of Christ a joint cause of justification, 864
its relation to justification, 865
the mediate cause of sanctification, 872
secures righteousness (justification plus sanctification), 873

Faithfulness, Divine, 288, 289

Fall, Scriptural account of temptation and, 582‐585
if account of, mythical, yet inspired and profitable, 582
reasons for regarding account of, as historical, 582, 583
the stages of temptation that preceded, 584, 585
how possible to a holy being?, 585, 586
incorrect explanations of, 585
God not its author, 586
was man’s free act of revolt from God, 587
cannot be explained on grounds of reason, 587
was wilful resistance to the inworking God, 587
was choice of supreme love to the world and self rather than supreme
devotion to God, 587
cannot be explained psychologically, 587
is an ultimate fact, 587
an immanent preference which was first a choice and then an affection,
588
God’s permission of the temptation preceding, benevolent, 588
not Satanic, because not self‐originated, 588
its temptation objectified in an embodied seducer, an advantage, 588
presented no temptation having tendency in itself to lead astray, 588,
589
the slightness of the command in, the best test of obedience, 589
the command in, was not arbitrary, 589
the greatness of the sanction incurred in, had been announced and should
have deterred, 590
the revelation of a will alienated from God, 590
physical death a consequence of, 590
brought death at once, 590
mortal effects of the, counteracted by grace, 590
death said by some not to be a consequence of the, 591
spiritual death, a consequence of, 591
arrested the original tendency of man’s whole nature to God, 591
depraved man’s moral and religious nature, 591
left him with his will fundamentally inclined to evil, 592
darkened the intuition of reason, 592
rendered conscience perverse in its judgments, 592
terminated man’s unrestrained intercourse with God, 592, 593
imposed banishment from the garden, 593
constituted Adam’s posterity sinful, see Imputation.
of human nature could only occur in Adam, 629
repented of, because apostasy of our common nature, 629
all responsible for the one sin of the, as race‐sin, 630
has depraved human nature, 637
has rendered human nature totally unable to do that which is good in
God’s sight, 640
has brought the race under obligation to render satisfaction for self‐
determined violation of law, 644

Fallen condition of man, Romanist and Protestant views of, 521, 522

Falsehood, what?, 569

Fatalism, 427

Fate and the decrees of God, 363

Father, God as, see Trinity.

“Father,” how applied to whole Trinity, 333
’our,’ import, 334

Federal theology, 45, 46, 50, 612‐616

Feeling, 17, 20, 21

Fellowship, Christian, not church, 979

Fetichism, 56, 532

Fiction, the truest, has no heroes, 575

Final cause, 44, 52, 60, 62, 75‐77

Final Things, doctrine of, 981‐1056

Finality, 75, 76, 78, 79

Fishes, the earliest, ganoids large and advanced in type, 470

Flesh, 562, 588, 673

“Fold,” none under New Dispensation, 807

_Fons Trinitatis_, 341

Force, no mental image of, 7
not the atom, the real ultimate, 91
a property of matter, 91, 96
behind all its forms, co‐ordinating mind, 95
atom a centre of, 96
matter a manifestation of, 96, 109
expressed in vibrations foundation of all we know of extended world, 96
the only, we know is that of our own wills, 96
real, lies in the Divine Being, as living, active will, 97
matter and mind as respectively external and internal centres of, 98
as a function of will, 99, 109, 415, 416
all except that of men’s free will, is the will of God, 99
the product of will, 109
in universe works in rational ways and must be product of spirit, 109
Christ, the principle of every manifestation of, 109
is God with his moral attributes omitted, 259
is energy under resistance, 371
is energy manifesting itself under self‐conditioning or differential
forms, 371
identified with the Divine Will, theories in which, 412
and will are one in God, 412
every natural, a generic volition of God, 413
a portion of God’s, disjoined from him in the free‐will of intelligent
beings, 414
_super cuncta, subter cuncta_, 414
not always Divine will, 416
in its various differentations adjusted by God, 436

Foreknowledge of God of all future acts directly, 284
acts of free will excepted by some, 284, 285
denial of the absolute, productive of dread, 285
regarded by some as insoluble, 285
perhaps explicable by the possibility of an all‐embracing present, 285
constant teaching of Scripture favors, 285
mediate, what?, 285
immediate, what?, 285
if intuitive, difficulty removed, 285, 357, 362
rests on fore‐ordination, 356
preceded logically by decree, 356, 357
of undecreed actuals (_scientia media_), not possible, 357
two kinds of, 358
the middle knowledge of Molina, 358
of individuals, 781
distinguished from fore‐ordination, 781

Forgiveness, not in nature but in grace, 548
cannot be granted unconditionally by public bodies, 766
more than the taking away of penalty, 767
optional with God since he makes satisfaction, 767
human accorded without atonement, why not divine?, 835
defined in personal, ethical and legal terms, 854, 855
God’s act as Father, 855
none in nature, 855
does not ensure immediate removal of natural consequences of sin, 855
the peculiar characteristic of Christian experience, 856

Fore‐ordination, its nature, 355, 381
the basis of foreknowledge, 356
distinguished from foreknowledge, 781

Forms of thought are facts of nature, 10

Fourth gospel, its genuineness, 151

Free agency defined, 360
can predict its action, 360

Freedom, man’s, consistent with the divine decrees, 359‐362
four senses of word, 361
of indifference, 362
of choice, which is not incompatible with the complete bondage of will,
509, 510
remnants of, left to man, 510, 640

_Freundlos war der grosse Weltenmeister_, 386

_Fürsehung_ and _Vorsehung_ combined in “Providence,” 419

Future life, the evidence of Jewish belief in a, 994
Egyptian ideas about, 995
Moses instructed in Egyptian “learning” concerning, 995
proof‐texts for, 996
doctrine of Pharisees supports, 996
Christ’s argument for, 996
argument for, presupposes the existence of a truthful, wise and good
creator, 996
the most conclusive proof of, Christ’s resurrection, 997
Christ taught the doctrine of, 997
a revelation of, needed, 997

Futurist method of interpreting Revelation, 1009

Galton’s view of piety, 83

Ganoids, the first geologic fishes, 470

_Gemachte, das_, sin is, 566

Genealogies of Scripture, 229

Generation, as applied to the Son, 340‐343
spontaneous, 389

Genuineness of the Christian documents, 143‐154
of the books of O. T., 165‐172

_Genus apotelesmaticum_, 686
_idiomaticum_, 686
_majestaticum_, 686

_Genus tapeinoticon_, 686

_Gesetz_, 533

Gethsemane, 677, 731

_Gewordene, das_, is not sin, 566

Glory, final state of righteous, 1029
his own, why God’s end in creation?, 397‐402

Gnostic Ebionism, 669, 670

Gnostics, 20, 378, 383, 487

God, the subject of theology, though aprehended by faith, yet a subject of
science, 3
human mind can recognize God, 4
though not phenomenal, can be known, 5
because of analogies between his nature and ours, can be known, 7
though no adequate image of, can be formed, yet may be known, 7
since all predicates of God are not negative, he may be known, 9
so limited and defined, that he may be known, 10
his laws of thought ours, and so he may be known, 10
can reveal himself by external revelation, 12
revealed in nature, history, conscience, Scripture, 14
Christ the only revealer of, 14
the existence of, 52‐110
definitions of the term, 52
his existence a first truth, or rational intuition, 52
his existence conditions observation and reasoning, 52
his existence rises into consciousness on reflection on phenomena of
nature and mind, 52
knowledge of his existence, universal, 56‐58
knowledge of his existence, necessary, 58, 59
knowledge of his existence, logically independent of and prior to, all
other knowledge, 59‐62
other suggested sources of our idea of, 62‐67
idea of, not from external revelation, 62, 63
idea of, not from tradition, 63
idea of, not from experience, 63‐65
idea of, not from sense perception and reflection, 63, 64
idea of, not from race‐experience, 64, 65
idea of, not from actual contact of our sensitive nature with God, 65
rational intuition of, sometimes becomes presentative, 65
idea of, does not arise from reasoning, 65, 66
faith in, not proportioned to strength of reasoning faculty, 65
we know more of, than reasoning can furnish, 65, 66
idea of, not derived from inference, 66, 67
belief in, not a mere working hypothesis, 67
intuition of, its contents, 67‐70
what he is, men to some extent know intuitively, 67
a presentative intuition of, possible, 67
a presentative intuition of, perhaps normal experience, 67
loss of love has weakened rational intuition of, 67
the passage of the intuition of, into personal and presentative
knowledge, 68
his existence not proved but assumed and declared in Scripture, 68
evidence of his existence inlaid in man’s nature, 68
knowledge of, though intuitive may be explicated and confirmed by
argument, 71
the intuition of, supported by arguments probable and cumulative, 71
the intuition of, explicated by reflection and reasoning, 72
arguments for existence of, classified, 72
Cosmological Argument for his existence, 73‐75
its proper statement, 73
its defects, 73, 74
its value, 74, 75
Teleological Argument for his existence, 75‐80
its nature, 75‐78
its defects, 78‐80
its value, 80
Anthropological Argument for his existence, 80‐85
its nature, 80‐83
its defects, 84
its value, 84, 85
Historical Argument for his existence, 85
Biblical Argument for his existence, 85
Ontological Argument for his existence, 85‐89
its three forms, 85, 86
its defects, 87
its value, 87‐89
evidence of his existence from the intellectual starting‐point, 88
evidence of his existence from the religious starting‐point, 88
the nature, decrees and works of, 243‐370
the attributes of, 243‐306
his acts and words arise from settled dispositions, 243
his dispositions inhere in a spiritual substance, 243
his attributes, definition of, 244
relation of his attributes to his essence, 244‐246
his attributes have an objective existence, 244
his attributes are distinguishable from his essence and from each other,
244
regarded falsely as being of absolute simplicity, 244
he is a being infinitely complex, 245
nominalistic notion, its error, 245
his attributes inhere in his essence, 245, 246
is not a compound of attributes, 245
extreme realism, its danger, 245
attributes of, belong to his essence, 245
his attributes distinguished from personal distinctions in his Godhead,
246
his attributes distinguished from his relations to the world, 246
illustrated by intellect and will in man, 246
his attributes essential to his being, 246
his attributes manifest his essence, 246
in knowing his attributes, we know the being to whom attributes belong,
246
his attributes, methods of determining, 246, 247
rational method of determining, 247
three _viæ_ of rational method of determining his attributes, 247
Biblical method, 247
his attributes, how classified, 247‐249
absolute or immanent, 247
his relative or transitive attributes, 247
his attributes, a threefold division of the relative or transitive, 248
his attributes, schedule of, 248
order in which they present themselves to the mind, 248
his moral perfection involves relation of himself to himself, 249
his absolute or immanent attributes, 249‐275
his spirituality, 249‐254
is not matter, 249
is not dependent upon matter, 249
the material universe, not his sensorium, 250
his spirituality not denied by anthropomorphic Scriptures, 250
pictures of him, degrading, 250
desire for an incarnate God, satisfied in Christ, 251
his spirituality involves life and personality, 251, 252
life as an attribute of, 251
life in, has a subject, 251
life in, not correspondence with environment, 251
life in, is mental energy, the source of universal being and activity,
252
personality, an attribute of, 252
his personality, its content, 252
his infinity, its meaning, 254
his infinity, a positive idea, 254
does not involve identity with ’The All,’, 255
intensive rather than extensive, 255
his infinity enables him to love infinitely the single Christian, 256
his infinity qualifies his other attributes, 256
what his infinity involves, 256‐260
his self‐existence, what?, 256
he is _causa sui_, 256
his aseity, what?, 256
exists by necessity of his own being, 257
his immutability, what?, 257
said to change, how explained, 257
his immutability secures his adaptation to the changing conditions of
his children, 258
his immutability consistent with the execution in time of his eternal
purposes, 258
permits activity and freedom, 258
his unity, what?, 259
notion of more than one, self‐contradictory and unphilosophical, 259
his unity not inconsistent with Trinity, 259
his unity, its lessons, 259
his perfection, explanation of the term, 260
involves moral attributes, 260‐275
himself, a sufficient object for his own activity, 260
his truth, what?, 260
his immanent truth to be distinguished from veracity and faithfulness,
260
he is truth, as the truth that is known, 261
his truth, a guarantee of revelation, and ground of eternal divine self‐
contemplation, 262
his love, what?, 263
his immanent love to be distinguished from mercy and goodness, 263
his immanent love finds a personal object in his own perfection, 263
his immanent love, not his all‐inclusive ethical attribute, 263
his immanent love, not a regard for mere being in general, 263
his immanent love, not a mere emotional or utilitarian affection, 264
his immanent love, rational and voluntary, 264
his immanent love subordinates its emotional element to truth and
holiness, 265
his immanent love has its standard in his holiness, and a perfect object
in the image of his own infinite perfections, 265
his immanent love, a ground of his blessedness, 265
his immanent love involves the possibility of his suffering on account
of sin, which suffering is atonement, 266
is passible, 266
blessedness consistent with sorrow, 266
a suffering being, a N. T. thought, 267
his passibility, authors on, 267
his holiness, self‐affirming purity, 268
his holiness, not its expression, justice, 269
his holiness is not an aggregate of perfections, but simple and
distinct, 269
his holiness is not utilitarian self‐love, 270
his holiness is neither love nor its manifestation, 271
his holiness is purity of substance, 273
his holiness is energy of will, 273
his holiness is God’s self‐willing, 274
his holiness is purity willing itself, 274
his holiness, authors on, 275
his relative or transitive attributes, 275‐295
his eternity, defined, 275
his eternity, infinity in its relation to time, 276
regards existing time as an objective reality, 277
in what sense the past, present and future are to him ’one eternal
now,’, 277
his immensity, what?, 278
not under law of space, 279
is not in space, 279
space is in him, 279
to him space has an objective reality, 279
his omnipresence, what?, 279
his omnipresence not potential but essential, 280
in what sense he “dwells in Heaven,”, 280
his omnipresence mistaken by Socinian and Deist, 280
his whole essence present in every part of his universe at the same
time, 281
his omnipresence not necessary, but free, 283
his omniscience, what?, 283
his omniscience, from what deducible, 283
its characteristics, as free from all imperfections, 283
his knowledge direct, 283
his omniscience, Egyptian symbol of, 283
his intense scrutiny, 283
knows things as they are, 284
foreknows motives and acts by immediate knowledge, 284
his prescience not causative, 286
his omniscience embraces the actual and the possible, 286
his omniscience called in Scripture “wisdom,”, 286
his omnipotence, what?, 286
his omnipotence does not extend to the self contradictory or the
contradictory to his own nature, 287
has power over his own power, 287
can do all he will, not will do all he can, 287
has a will‐power over his nature‐power, 287
his omnipotence implies power of self‐limitation, 288
his omnipotence permits human freedom, 288
his omnipotence humbles itself in the incarnation, 288
his attributes which have relation to moral being, 288‐295
his veracity and faithfulness, or transitive truth, 288
his veracity secures the consistency of his revelations with himself,
and with each other, 288
his veracity secures the fulfilment of all promises expressed or
implied, 289
his mercy and goodness, or transitive love, 289
his mercy, what?, 289
his goodness, what?, 289
his love finds its object in his own nature, 290
his love, men its subordinate objects, 290
his justice and righteousness or transitive holiness, 290
his righteousness, what?, 291
his justice, what?, 291
his justice and righteousness not mere benevolence, nor so founded in
the nature of things as to be apart from God, 291
his justice and righteousness are revelations of his inmost nature, 292
do not bestow reward, 293
are devoid of passion and caprice, 294
revulsion of his nature from impurity and selfishness, 294
his attributes, rank and relations, 295‐303
his attributes related, 295
his moral attributes more jealously guarded than his natural, 295
his fundamental attribute is holiness, 296
may be merciful, but must be holy, 296
his holiness put most prominently in Scripture, 296
his holiness, its supremacy asserted by conscience, 296
his holiness conditions exercise of other attributes, 297
his holiness, a principle in his nature which must be satisfied before
he can redeem, 298
his holiness, the ground of moral obligation, 298‐303
commands us to be holy on the ground of his own holiness, 302
as holy, the object of the love that fulfils the law, 302
his holy will, Christ, our example, supremely devoted to, 302
the Doctrine of the Trinity in the One God, 304‐352
see Trinity.
is _causa sui_, 338
is “self willing right,” 338
relations sustained by, in virtue of personal distinctions, 343
unity and threeness equally essential to, 346
independence and blessedness of, require Trinity, 347
Doctrine of his Decrees, 353‐370
definition of his decrees, itemized, 353‐355
evil acts, how objects of the decrees of, 354
his permissive, not conditional agency, 354
his decrees, how classified, 355
his decrees referred to in Scripture and supported by reason, 355‐359
can preserve from sin without violation of moral agency, 366
his works, or the execution of his decrees, 371‐464
not a demiurge working on eternal matter, 391
his supreme end in creation, his own glory, 397‐402
“his own sake,” the fundamental reason of activity in, 399
his self expression not selfishness, but benevolence, 400
the only Being who can rightly live for himself, 401
that he will secure his end in creation, the great source of comfort,
401
his rest, a new exercise of power, 411
not “the soul of the universe,” 411
the physical universe in no sense independent of, 413
has disjoined in the free will of intelligent beings a certain amount of
force from himself, 414
the perpetual Observer, 415
does not work all, but all in all, 418
represented sometimes by Hebrew writers as doing what he only permits,
424
his agency, natural and moral, distinguished, 441
his Fatherhood, 474‐476
implied in man’s divine sonship, 474
extends in a natural relation to all, 474
provides the atonement, 474
special, towards those who believe, 474
secures the natural and physical sonship of all men, 474
this natural sonship preliminary in some to a spiritual sonship, 474
texts referring to, in a natural or common sense, 474
in the larger sense, what it implies, 474
natural, mediated by Christ, 474
texts referring to, in a special sense, 474, 475
to the race rudimental to the actual realization in Christ, 475
extends to those who are not his children, 475
controversy on the doctrine mere logomachy, 475
as announced by Jesus, a relation of love and holiness, 475
if not true, then selfishness logical, 475
this relationship realized in a spiritual sense through atoning and
regenerating grace, 475
logical outcome of the denial of, 475, 476
universal ground for accepting, 476
authors upon, 476
our knowledge of, conditioned by love, 519, 520
“God prays” fulfilled in Christ, 675
reflected in universe, 714
the immanent, is Christ, the Logos, 714
exercises his creative, preserving and providential activity through
Christ, 714
the Revealer of, is Christ, the Logos, 714
personal existence grounded in him, 714
all perceptions or recognitions of the objective through him, 714
as Universal Reason, at the basis of our self consciousness and
thinking, 714, 715
is the common conscience, over finite, individual consciences, 715
the eternal suffering of, on account of human sin, manifested in the
historical sufferings of the incarnate Christ, 715
the heart of, finally revealed in the historic sacrifice of Calvary, 716
dealings of repentant sinner with, rather than with government, 741
salvation of all, in which sense desired by, 791, 792

Golden Age, classic references to, 526

Good deeds of an unregenerated man, how related to the tenor of his life,
814

Goodness, defined, 289

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
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

Hatred, what? 569

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

Henotheism, what? 259

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
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

Heresy, what? 800

_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

_Honestum_ and _utile_, 300

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
see Christ.

Humiliation of Christ, 701‐706
see Christ.

Humility, what? 832

Hyperphysical communication between minds perhaps possible, 1021

“I Am,” as a Divine title, 253

Idea of God, origin of our, 52‐70
see God.

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

_Idiomaticum genus_, 686

“Idle word,” 554

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

Imprecatory Psalms, 231

_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
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

_Inexistentia_, 333

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

Infinite, 9, 87, 254

Infinity of God, 254‐256
see God.

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
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

Intercession of Christ, 773‐775
see Christ.

Intercessors, saints on earth are, 775

_Intercommunicatio_, 333

Intercommunion of the Persons in the Trinity, 332‐334

Intermediate State, 998‐1003
of the righteous, 988, 999
of the wicked, 999, 1000
not a sleep, 1000
not purgatorial, 1000
one of incompleteness, 1002
a state of thought, 1002
sin if preferred in this more spiritual state becomes demoniacal, 1002
some place the end of man’s probation at the close of the, 1002

Intuition, 52, 53, 67, 72, 125, 499

Intuition‐theory of inspiration, see Inspiration.

Intuitional theory of morals, 501
reconciled with the empirical theory, 501

Intuitions, 52, 53, 67, 248

Isaiah, its composite character, 239

Islam, 186, 427

James, the apostle, his position on Justification, 851

Jefferson, Thomas, on a Baptist church as the truest form of democracy,
908

Jehovah, 256, 309

Jesus, bowing at the name of, 969

Jews, the only forward‐looking people, 666
educated in three great truths, 666, 667
above truths presented by three agencies, 667, 668
this education first of all by law, 667
this education by prophecy, 667
this education by judgment, 668
effects of the exile upon, 668
as propagators of the gospel, 668
authors on Judaism as a preparation for Christ, 668

Job, the book of, when written, 241
is a dramatic poem, 240, 241

John, gospel of, differs from synoptics in its account of Jesus, 143
its genuineness, 151, 152
compared with Revelation, 151, 152
does its characteristic Logos doctrine necessitate a later date?, 320,
321

Judas, 884, 1043

_Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur_, 293

Judge, Christ the final, 1027, 1028

Judgment, the last, a final and complete vindication of God’s
righteousness, 1023, 1024
its nature outward, visible, definite in time, 1024, 1025
its object, the manifestation of character, and assignment of
corresponding condition, 1025, 1026
evidences of, and preparation for, already in the nature of man, 1026,
1027
single acts and words adduced in, why?, 1027, 1028
the judge in, see preceding item, the subjects of, men and evil angels,
1028, 1029
the grounds of, the law of God and grace of Christ, 1029
list of authors on, 1029

Justice of God, 290‐295
see God.