The attitude of God, of the individual sinner, and of the moral universe, in rela- tion to the Atonement, severally considered—The Orthodox Doctrine shown to be comprehensive and consistent, and the Moral Influence and Govern- mental Hypotheses shown to be partial and inconsistent—The elements of the Orthodox Doctrine stated, in respect to its Motive, its Nature, and its
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‘DEFINITION OF TERMS, AND SPECIFICATION OF THE PRINCIPAL POINTS INVOLVED IN THE ORTHODOX DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT.
Necessity of technical terms, and need of accurate definitions ATONEMENT and SATISFACTION—The difference between a penal and a pecuniary satisfaction —Penalty and distinction between CALAMITIES, CHASTISEMENTS, and PENAL Evits—Meaning of the terms SuBSTITUTION and VICARIOUS ; EXPIATION and. PROPITIATION ; IMPETRATION and APPLICATION ; “REDEMPTION and ATONEMENT ; Mrritum and SATISFACTIO, or the distinction between active
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CHAPTER IV.
Chapters THE ULTIMATE MOTIVES OF ALL GOD’S ACTS ARE IN HIMSELF 5 AND THE IMMUT- ' ABLE PERFECTIONS OF THE DIVINE NATURE DEMAND THE PUNISHMENT OF
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The ultimate motives of all God’s actions are in himself, proved—The Scriptures
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predicate holiness of the divine nature as well as of the divine will—They assert that God hates sin, and regards it as intrinsically worthy of punish- ment—The different answers to the question, Why does God punish sin ? considered—The hypothesis that Disinterested Benevolence is the whole of Virtue disproved—The punishment of sin intrinsically right, and essential to the moral perfection of God—Justicz voluntary, but not optional—GRracz
necessarily a matter of sovereign choice................ f CHAPTER V. CHURCH DOCTRINE OF THE ATONEMENT PROVED FROM THE FACT THAT THE
DIVINE LAW IS ABSOLUTELY IMMUTABLE.
The Divine Law shown to be inmutable—Dr. Fiske’s admissions-—The Law cere-
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monial and moral—The Penalty shown to be an essential part of law—The admissions and inconsistencies of Fiske and Barnes—The sufferings of Christ shown not to have been a “substitute for the penalty ;” to have been not identical with the sufferings demanded of his people in person, considered as suffering, but precisely identical considered as penalty—Scripture teaches that Christ came with the design of fulfilling, not relaxing, the Law—The position of Dr. John Young as to the nature of moral law and its penalty SEAPCA PAN TOLUGOM pale cto) weteteeess tei aha tretecoheta’s aie ie adn of oenetalealay ek OeeeeRe
CHAPTER VI. THREE-FOLD RELATION WHICH MORAL AGENTS SUSTAIN TO THE DIVINE LAW.
distinction between the Natural, Federal, and Penal relations which men sustain to the Divine Law stated and applied...............
CHAPTER VII.
ADAM WAS, IN THE STRICT SENSE OF THE WORDS, THE FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVE
OF THE RACE; AND THE ANTENATAL FORFEITURE, OF WHICH EACH OF BIS DESCENDANTS IS SUBJECT, IS THE PENAL CONSEQUENCE OF HIS PUBLIC SIN.
admitted facts of man’s birth into an inevitable condition of sin and misery stated—The Orthodox and the Rationalist agreed that God could not bring the new-born soul into such a condition, unless his natural rights had been justly forfeited before birth—The two questions thence arise, wHy God allows such a curse to be transmitted, and How it is transmitted—I. The attempted solutions which deny that man is subject to a just antenatal forfeiture—The Manichzean doctrine of the absolute impreventability of sin—Pantheistic Hypothesis that sin is a necessary incident to moral development—-The New England Root Theory and Placzeus’ doctrine—Mediate and Consequent Impu- tation stated and refuted—II. The attempted solutions which admit antenatal forfeiture—Theory of pre-existence as maintained by Dr. E. Beecher and
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Julius Miiller stated and refuted—The Realistic Theory of cur oneness with Adam, as advocated by Drs. Baird and Shedd, stated, proved not to have been the doctrine of the men who wrote the Creeds of the Reformed Churches, and not to be true—The doctrine of President Edwards—The several points in- volved in the true doctrine, (a) as to the imputation of guilt, and (b) as to the origination of moral corruption in each new-born soul, stated, and the whole proved from Scripture, and the consent of Churches......
CHAPTER VIIL
CHRIST WAS, IN THE STRICT JEWISH SENSE OF THE TERM, A SACRIFICE; THE
JEWISH SACRIFICES WERE STRICTLY PIACULAR; AND THEY WERE TYPICAL OF THE SACRIFICE OF OUR LORD. "
Heads of Argument stated—I. The divine origin of Sacrifices proved —The primi-
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