5 “The Homilectical Review," Feb., 1910, vol. lix, no. 2, p. 101.
® Neue Kirchliche Zeitschrift, 1900, xi, p. 500.
® p. 601.
? Schmid, p. 421.
™ As cited, p. 601.
7* “System of Christian Doctrine," 1903, p. 417.
ЗН. Е. Henderson, “Тһе Religious Controversies of Scotland," 1905, p. 187.
™ H. F. Henderson, as cited, pp. 182, 183.
75 “Life After Death,” pp. 184, 185.
76 Grundrids af den System, Theologi, pp. 114, 115, (as cited by Dahle).
7 “The Methodist Review," (N. Y.), for July, 1909.
® Erlangen Edition of Works, xlix, p. 343.
9 W, P. Paterson, as cited, p. 375; referring to A. Ritschl, “Justification and Reconciliation," E. T., p. 130.
? Erlangen Edition of Works, xviii, p. 20.
°" It is important to observe that the terms Supralapsarian, Sub- (or Infra-) lapsarian concern the place relatively to the decree of the fall given to the decree of election. A habit has grown up among historians who do not comprehend the matter, of defining Supralapsarianism as the view which holds that God's decree in general is formed before the fall. Thus Th. Häring, “Тһе Christian Faith," E. T., 1912, p. 479, speaks of a view being called Supralapsarianism because it makes “the will of God include the fall of the first man." That the “will of God includes the fall of the first тап,” no Calvinist (be he Supralapsarian, Sublapsarian, Post- redemptionist, Amyraldian,. Pajonist), either doubts or can doubt. No Theist, clear in his theism, can doubt it.
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Accordingly the tendency to erect the fewness of the saved into a dogma has no connection with Calvinism as such, but is just as prominent among (for example) the Lutherans. Quenstedt, Theologia Didactico-Polemica, 1715, 11, p. 30, makes the first attribute of the “elect” to be “‘few- ness," as of the “reprobate” to be ‘“‘multitudinousness;” and John Gerhart, Loci Theologici Ed. Cotta, 1781, xx, p. 518, declares of the “object of eternal life" among human beings, first of all, that they are "few." See further “Тһе Lutheran Church Review” for January, 1915, article "Are there few that be saved?" For hints of the Sacerdotal point of view, see F. W. Farrar, “Eternal Hope," 1878, pp. 90ff., and "Mercy and Judgment," 1881, pp. 137-155.
83 Cf. what is said by R. A. Knox, "Some Loose Stones," 1913, pp. 111 sq. William Temple had said strikingly in "Foundations": ‘‘The earth will in all probability be in- habitable for myriads of years yet. We are the primitive Church." R. A. Knox takes exception to this (which never- theless seems true enough), and proceeds to argue that there is no solid ground for supposing that Christianity shall ever be triumphant over her enemies. ''Theologically," he asserts, "it seems certain that if free will is to be more than a name, the possibility must remain open that the majority of the world will reject the Christian revelation." Certainly we agree that if the matter is to be hung upon free will there can be no ground to expect that there is ever to bea saved world.
** Accordingly the testimony of even a Th. Häring (“Тһе Christian Faith," E. T., 1913, p. 474) is true: "It is only through faith in the living God that faith in an ultimate goal to be surely reached has become a power in the world and in the individual heart."
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