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as it was,
God
who
to
destroy
both
This implies that
if
either
the
species.
A
Milton's
phrase,
of God.
substance
dust of
part
resulting
hands,
and
of
animals
is
as-
sociated
Jewish
Eabbini-
Miiller,
has
of sin
the
female,
and
Hagenbach
of Nyssa.
treatise upon Original
yet
this
is
by
no
means
a
doubt that
by this
respecting
traducianism.
isliment
;
physical
nat-
mon
view
durinor
Bible
and
with
succeeding generations
of men,
mere
body
a
soul
day,
when
 
:
tur, incorpoream
101.
of
physical life
the creation-
it is
of the human
invisible
even
phenomena,
and
is
the
base
extended
and
 
that which
of the
is
nevertheless
beyond
the
reach
of
perceived
as
a
small
all
in-
ex
nihilo.
This
theories
of
traducianism
doctrine of
original sin,
to
construct
any
explanatory
theory.
In
this
case,
of the
worlds
of
Eom.
5 :
12
sin,
upon
3. The doctrine may
this case,
his poster-
ity whom
not
seminally
include,
sinned
representatively
believer is not
them.
sin itself.
both.
like
and spiritual
notices the contrariety of the two views. **If we reconcile
the
con-
If
is
denied.
of per-
sonal as
ancient Semi-Pelagian,
the modern
either in the sense
certain non-penal
either deserve
sin.
The
the commission
of the
God,
of
inherited
sin.
For
it
is
son
cannot
be
morally
is
sinful.
 No
individual
can
in
he
belongs.
He
the
manifestation.
Accordingly,
the
of all in
the whole circle
we
than to main-
upon those
to
render
them
justice, than
eternally to
existence.
Nothing,
doctrine
of
by
this
of re-
favors
it.
a species,
entire
indi-
:
first
chapter,
his
mind,
as
is
evinced
by
the
as
long
as
 the
he
commonly collective
 
the creation of
the female body was
ground, but out of
was
derived
out
of
(ef)
and
body,
was
first made
sepai-ately created
propagated
; that
the
This
goes
to
 
only
physical,
as
the
the flesh is flesh,
spirit is spirit. The
;
Kom. 3 :
the flesh, and of the will of man.
But an
unregenerate man
the will of the flesh,
and
 
was
a
generation,
in
traducianism.
 2'a/)^
Lehre, dasz der
die Seele
Stelle beruft)
of
all
common human nature
tal and physical.
There is nothing
of
God
when
Levi
to
the
a
In Psalm
is
as
milk,
and
 
belly, I
from the womb
the
term
^vcTK
denotes
a
real
nature
derived
from
foregoing
ances-
tors
a part of it.
that
men
are
both the Old
verb.
ISTouentity
cannot
sin
natural
causes
the power of God
physical
derivation
itself.
;
other,
and
is
equally
the
ISTitzsch
my
elder
were
fathers,
ought
we
the universal Father ? See
refers the
sin of
every
indi-
vidual
or other,
tion. Shedd : On Romans 4 :
3,
transgression.
would follow that
sinned,
because
he
and sim-
but because he is
unity of
is also
his
nature
simul-
taneously
corruption, like
its cause
individual
was
imputed
to
imputing the
There
indeed
by the
pleased,
have
established
such
a
union
;
ing, as
participate with the
heart of the
and so
a
unity
com-
posed
if
a
unity
of
in
the
sin
can
be
not
be
propagated,
of Adam,
to as-
adopts
this
view,
Catechism.
Presbyterian
we do
in which
that
the
another.
Adam
far
as
he
especially
(praecipue)
the
trinitarian
persons.
specific unity. But in the instance of man, the unity
is both
no
at
first.
lays more
he
does
not
think
not venture
that
brought
eter-
as he
did, this
be
only
to the later
the other, in his discussion of the subject of imputa-
tion. Sometimes
example
from the undeserving, but
was po-
24,
25.
tion. A representative, pure and simple, does not contain
his
constituents
Adam as the
 
hand, the
representative
acted,
then
certain
mode
that
of the proceeding.
of
of imputation.
require the con-
posterity,
prior
while in
combination
But
the
doctrine
covenant of
non-
provided for before
the covenant of
and
constituted
hy
is natural,
which is
so,
by
act of
paid tithes
2.
By
grace and
become lia-
accordina;
shalt
surely
die.'
in,
and
imputation
of
be re-
justly imputed
is ethically
consistent. But
if mutilated
prior inherence is
in the
later Calvinism.
it, by
sin
unity
that
belong properly to
representatives,
takes
natural union altogether,
most
positive
of
this
22]
mentioned.
Westminster
stand-
ards.
It
has
been
introduced
from
the
outside,
its
constituents,
can be no
act
in
particle of
of
Christ's
right-
others.
By
virtue
in
Christ.
inconsistent
that they
the-
even in
is sometimes
forms.
The
Westminster
Assembly
explained
original
sin
same is
was
a
that the
exist-
ence
and
assertion that
Men say that a
best explained by traduci-
view. God's
is so
therefore
first
be
pair, the
the
sup-
of
grace
transgression,
is
depi'ivcd
of
certain
sovereign will wliicli decides
is
a
is an
as
relieves the
judicial
infliction
not
culpability
(culpa),
but
absence,
and
conse-
Adam's sin, but are
sinned; not
Ac-
by
participation,
not
by
representation
that
such
separation
case of Christ's
no
possible
separation
be-
the favor of God but deserving of his wrath and
con-
demnation
obligation,
tliey
tion
pability is remitted and its obligation taken away, if any-
thing still remains to bo
expiated
by
the
suffering
viii.) repudiates this
eatn
Braun
ISth century,
apostle, when
very
often
speaks
of
'sin,'
and
to
say
man
'
to
come
; but
where
does
he
call
these
things
 
dure
argument of the representationist, and is of
ten accompanied
the
traducianist
their union with
and had
he so
with
to
suffer
suffered for the sin
be suffered,
poena.
sin in
sin
as tliesa
fai^ticulars
are concerned
from
the
parallel
suffering
^
of
Christ
did
Adam's sin, because it was a fractional part of the
original
human
incarnation
upon
Christ's
humanity
to
non-participation
that the common human
sin,
the
sin precisely
be
imputed
to
meritoriously, and unmeritori-
ously or gratuitously.
This is contrary
righteousness
may
be
imputed
either
Kara
when he has not
ungodly, his
faith is
for
of
to
the
the antecedent condemnation
from
imputed to
them, not
con-
 
is
imputed,
or
he held
to
but
disobe-
dience
The
ly imputes
Adam's sin
 
 
if gratuitous
it is not
God may
sin. lie can  give,
that is gratuitously and
liim
Avho
conception
The species then
(J)
A
species
a
natural
species at the close
ment, will
a single
individuals
of
the
species
are
to
be
composed.
The
Creator
position
but
considered
which these
1 : 16.
no I'csemblance
whatever to
can
produce
only
a
the true notion of the species is not in the
resulting group, but in
is
at
the
does
been adopted
cement
tliat
connects
them
individ-
uality
of
into
bryo is evolved into an animal, and the linman embryo
into
the
vegetable
propagation.
is taught in
moner
(cell)
simply
divides
innumerable
the species
from non-entity.
tains all the
(the
ganic and inorganic
stance is in view,
are produced
of
the
has
overlooked
this.
of the
nominalist is
ure.
vidual
crystal.
are primarily
the sons
eagle,
a
lion,
or
a
man,
has
primitive invisible
God
created
crystal.
And
the
same
is
true
of
has
objective
reality,
and
nominalism
is
actual
objective
reality.
But
nature of which
unity
as
explained
Hodge,
an adjunct of the
given corporeal organization,
or
genus,
merically
as
the
same,
in
connection
with
a
constituted
substances.
'^Nondum
intelle-
git,
he
says
of
the
very
same
prop-
erties
off
froiri
has
an
individ-
ual
form
as
that is left
this
cup
a
piece
of
clay
essential
properties
peculiar
that
enters
into
the
an
integrant
of
the
individ-
to
each
alike.'
individuals, depends
upon what
species are
in mind,
then the
the human
if the
then
individuals
(univei'sale
ante
nature in
of
the
posteriti/.
purest form of
;
embryo
is
scope
cannot
be
does
not
species. If
difference
is
substances
of a living
is jeoparded
nihilo,
and
:
in Adam. If
the symmetry
of doctrine
or other, the
in this mystery,
defence. The follow-
to
be
valid
in two natures.
term
 person.
Kealism,
not
nominalism,
person
is
only
a
should
tended
instead
but
procreation
in the day of judgment, will see the same human
race
3. The conception of
is in
phj'sical
difficult
to
visible
form.
acts
and
affections
of
the
pos-
ing substance, to be
being in
fections brought
about by
 
arbitrary divine
infinite purity
both
re-
dem/ption,
also,
which
the
doctrine
sin rested
upon that
unindividualized portion
of
Adam
assumed
by
the
Logos,
by being justi-
3:16.
The justification
traducianism
extended,
and
ponderable,
and
yet
the propagation
Imponderable
physi-
Chriet's
If this
things
fixed and
diffi-
harmonize the cre-
in
this
tion
in
respect
to
yields
a
an
individual
soul
the
concep-
tion
and
birth
thus derives out of the psychical side
of the specific
a
spiritual
its
spirit is created,
And
 
quality
is
fixed
by
the
in
that
into matter
on
for this very
propagation
prepared
bj
individual
suppose
this
continuity
of
two
following:
positions
propagation-
2.
That
the
soul
is
propagated
power ; only,
on this
soul as
In
the
second
term
 propagate
probationary
statute.
(5).
They
were
cove-
nant
of
works,
be
superfluous
knowl-
edge.
Consequently,
one
pecul-
iar
of the moral law, and the moral law
was
not
the
statute
chosen
to
stand
or
this
probationary law.
individual
transgressions
Id-e
Adam's
first
transgression,
by
sinning
against
either
sin is
the ground
tlie least, the ground is taken
from under
imputation, and
the first individual
was now
was created on the
the corruption that was now in human nature, and subse-
quently acted it out
commit
18,
19)
says :
son
shall
not
bear
to the
trans-
of
Adam
between
and
Eve
race, but
guilty and corrupted,
and is so
a
The
prepositions
whole human nature
individuals,
the
whole
species
;
the
non-
individualized
human
nature
the liuman
nature was
two
indi-
to
 
which
'
;
the
present
population
of
Seth was
world
individualized, and
the
sinful
xplain the mode.
be
and
a
mj'stery.
be-
than
;
The
body
Resurrection,
creation of
The Westminster
graves till
human nature in
Adam and the
tion
to
tliough they
tempt to
may
run
sin
but originated
in Adam
God
as
an
aggravation
of
his
particular
act
De Casu
Calvin
iv.
Edwards :
Original
age
of
the
poets
is
the
S. C,
in
our
own
image.
image,
Gen.
1 :
man
creative
act.
Creation
is,
thus,
' Modern
some of
con created holiness.
method
from
that
by
which
and
knowledge like
that of
view.
Adam,
by
apostasy,
came
to
have
of
God,
because
his own
inferior
of
his
will
with
the
Divine
of man suppose it.
who
has
the
definition
we
certain faculty which
either to good or evil, it would not
be a
as
the
human
understanding
is
by
and laws
finite
mind moves
soon as ever
them.
But
themselves hetter than he
it
is
created.
Uncreated,
independent
holiness
In
choice
unless
God
immediately
being
whatsoever
only
quality
quality
Augustinian
the
will.
the cor-
^e^-motion.
forced
self-motion.
of another
force, he
will,
for
omnipotence
is
not
neces-
is not
to
sinful inclination. This
power to walk
necessaiy to add
in order
able
to
reverse
that
will-
ing,
because
con-
trary.
No
inclining
wills
free in
man
is
to
sin,
and
inclina-
tion
the
Fatlier
which
liath
;
that the
act of the
him
as
is
as
absolute
as
that
which
product
of
the
inability,
because
becomes
unable
perfectly
man
is
not
forced
he was
back to
the
in-
finitude
of
self-determination.
in
the
righteous
does not
holiness,
of his
existing
self-de-
termination
substance
present
inclining
freedom.
able to fly.
Ills inability to
And
similarly
freedom
indifference,
is
allowed.
Only
Men
are
not
bidden
to
life.
Death
is
set
be
rejected,
not
that
it
may
be
may
that
it
may
be
elected.
self-determination
to
good
or
good,
facto disinclined
in an
is indetermi-
in
terms.
De Libertate.
peccandi
connected
ruerit
in
Adam,
leading
poses this, in order
differs from the Pela-
perpetual
with
Augustinian
is
primarily
a
self-determination
to
a
single
end,
not
but inclined
yielding to deception,
one object,
inclination would be
the will, in this
eaj'ing that
disincline
latter case, there is a comparison
of one object
is
no
For if there
the will
mind
is de-
or
inclined,
that
wealth
is
a
termination. The
inclination makes
tlie motive,
move it are spiritual
heavenly. If the will is inclined to the ereatnre as
an
motives
that
influence
are determinants,
the
and
in
conseqnence
of
one
supreme
have
been
created
as
voluntary
essence,
not
:
by Adam.
that tiie
Jus-
tice
owes
is absolutely
I.
:
be
taken
in
a
Sensibility,
and
there-
fore
is,
as
he
mind
mind
endeavors
to
give
is plain
way,
a
volition,
and
ntter
the thing
. .3
desired
as
he
desires.
In
order
to
;
rea-
chooses
spoken
words
shall
be
effectual
Locke's
with
in including
end.
They
The
and mutability
self-
to
ends
in
which are
to
the
are
to some form
themselves
fection
as
sanctified
by
en-
di'en
confined
to
eternal.
Edwards (Affections,
property, of
sensibleness
of
is a hading
act of the
with
the
lieart,
and
faculty, or the
tion from the
rejoice in. And
God,
is by desire, or
different
names,
to
wit
: of
:
 
rational
;
 
the
inclina-
the heart
bonum
creation.
In
natural or
as voluntary
and nature.
That
of
or
blame
human will.
have
it,
life
from
1
John
desire not
religious
tliis
arrange-
and
have
no
:
love; or the sinful
mental,
and
mental.
The
fiend,
and religious
ful
in degree,
by
volition,
morality
npon
this
their own inti'insic
nature, are regarded
and
;
God
as
latter
base of
the meekness
pronounces
a
blessing.
Such
a
What crops
1
'See
understand-
ing.
In
the
of
antithetic
to
together
modes
of
a
man's
a
liolj
mind
and
of such matters.
soul
or
person,
the
terras
to give the
heart, i.e. all she
Matt.
5:3,
that
a walk,
there follows
voli-
tion.
The
same
distinction
will
terminates
reason
is,
that
I
am
do-
but they
are voluntary
principles
derive
their
good-
is
proved
he can go,
any instant,
end, in
with the
in
bringeth
forth
evil
fruit.
per-
formed
man is
he preftre
our
drunkard, from
fear or
self.
By
intoxicant
in
the
result of
time
the
self-motion
of
product of
the activity of
tjie
product
of
con-created, and
was
the
simple
self-
Adam's evil
inclination. This,
also, was
the result
inclined
prompting
it.
Out
of
to take the one
the mutable holiness
was able to
and
the
effect
is
a
new
inclining
or
self-determining
immediately
inclines
the
effect
of
God
Sinful incli-
objective aspect
of an
naturans.
In
That
hand and taking
he
ate
the
of the means, by
between
voluntary
chose
instead of choosing God.
will
 inclines
voli-
 affection,
to
all
a
good
from which
the an-
the an-
:
(h) The
choice, or
and
producerl
bj
the
voli-
tion,
(b)
and produced
the
will,
or
else
nation
 
the volitions of animals,
choice, by Edwards :  If the will, all things now considered,
inclines
the other
conmion
fly,
according
to
volitionary,
not
voluntary
acts
the vibrations of
synonymous
with
vitality.
equally with
of
will,
theory. are now
distinguishing between veg-
;
has
something
beliind
when he asserts that the will
as
nouuienon,
or
ref-
an
antecedent
inclination,
or
by
And the
the Ding an
seen
in
in
one
rather
than
view.
A
by alcohol, he
or fear,
by
of
end.
1
of evil
—an era
in existence
tinction
between
inclination
and sin,
from
this.
not make this distinction
recognized. Owen,
disobedience.
good
or
volitionary, that if
distinction
between
inclination
and
spontaneus appetitus.
sinful in-
?
has
Covenants, I. ii.
Howe : Oracles,
1.
Miiller :
own
there-
by
of the
apostasy.
A
would
be,
that
of
conformed
finite
of
sub-
ject.
he was cre-
necessity of losing
but not so
made
relative, not absolute. It
holiness, James
elect
placing him in probation.
tendency
creation
was
upholding
by
his
power.
He
had
a
to
is inno-
rather
would, since he
constancy to
of his will,
was suffi-
cient to
such
a
obligation
to
Why he did
;
holi-
ness
and
Ilosea
6:7,
have
transgressed
the
covenant.
of works was
;
:
of works
tree
stant they did
eat of it
been selected
broken
by
a
single
soli-
tary
transgression
to remain
(James
1
tree of
knowledge considered
man and that
of the tree.
as
make him
like the
not truth, and to
was
created
the force
of the
difficult for him
and
desiring
violent strength
com-
the
least
by
inward
himself
into
a
sinful
and
be expected.
be
rationalized
fact
can
be
explained
;
ing God, but the will itself, for its end. See,
also,
De
Libero
Arbitrio,
inconceivable and
product
of
purer
and
more
perfect
the
more
thoroughly
do
we
day he
sinned. When
to
tree
of
of
the
body.
to pre-
vent the
security
against
 
an inherent
mortal body of fallen Adam is, that prior to the
fall the human
Neither
craving for
food, or air, it
flesh and blood.
;
sinless
soul
like
the
his body would
of
holiness
parents
trans-
'
had
stock of grace
in his hand
eating the
Eve
read-
ily
resist
temptation.
will
at
the
subjected to
C,
14.
Eom.
3 :
23,
of
the
glory
of
God.
Eom.
3
of
punishment.
Sin
left
 
knowing
good
this
to
have
by
she
already
possessed
by
Maker's arrangement, and
have remained
that the
the will rather
than the understanding.
unfallen
error in
the heart.
all his endeav-
and
rejects
them.
Still
the
sen-
suous
nature
of
man
a thorough
examination by
Miiller. Sin,
outside
of
the
The
soul
sins,
In
respect
antecedent
between
no sinful
between good
both, and the
it was a
the
Illy-
 
the
violation
plicitly the violation
transgressing the com-
mandment not to
James
of
nature,
them
have
rational nature
decalogue, are identical.
two
(Christian
Religion,
Quest.
92),
declared the
is
a
part
only
unwritten
and
written
law,
is
the
a
com-
mon
between the violation
 
perish
the law, shall
(1)
Imputatione. Bur-
sin
proceed from
of
knowledge.
This
ex-
of all law. The guilt of Adam's
first sin
to Adam,
of the
tree of
and
 wor-
shipped
and
inclination
(voluntas)
pre-
ceded
it.
And
craving
for
undue
exaltation ?
when
sin
[externally]
that
to
actual
eat-
ing.
The
desire
and
inclination,
Ed-
wards considers to be the firsts in itself. There was not
a
God to the creat-
 
his soul at his first
[individual] existence, is one
aris-
ing
that
action
proceeded
;
for,
'
of sin
in man.
It was
inclined
away
from
self-determination.
He
had no
The
following
have willed ?
efficient
and
an
of
which
was
there
a desire for
with
the
same
Tempter
derness,
entered
His
will
from
of
evil
angels,
had
ac-
quired
of the term
 gods in this
spoils
sin
have been
fruit
that Adam
would
consequence.
According
to
St.
Paul,
Adam
was
seduced
by
God,
he
between
the
created
qualities
the eater
a kind
craving
nocent. But
edge had been
commandment (Ex.
desire was
afiapria. Rom.
7:7. It
trary
and
inclination,
so
apostasy
was
have remained
 
full
the knowl-
edge of
(1
began to
desire and
the
rejection
was apostasy.
ISTentrality or
her
to
incline
desire, consequently,
was the
hate
what
God
commanded.
and foolish
not evil
in
it.
natural
healthy
appetite
appointed
food,
not have
pleasure
from
eating,
and
sified.
It
A
men as
only one
and denotes the
case, rj^apTov
a
phrase,
signify
a
imputation
remote from
his language,
so to
his
and
not
by Semi-
are
signification,
man's
act
 
the
qualified
meaning
given
to
^fiaprov.
inflicted
upon
the first sin
thus committed
the en-
tire race in Adam, is imputed to each individual of the
race,
of
the
guilt
which all sin
a unity
be pertinent.
par-
There is
innocent
like those
which come
of the one
upon
the
rest
of
mankind,
because
of
the
sin
relation
to
his
fam-
ily.
In
head of
but substantial natui'e,
to soteriology
in redemption.
with the individ-
and blood
There was no
union, in the
as
a
and
individ-
is
indi-
vidual
man
is
fact
of
sin
when
he
was
does
not
prove
that
such
a
self-consciousness
is
necessary
his victim he
are
committing
inwardly
all
4 :
18),
men
more, the less
thoughts. The clear-
ness of the
It is frequently the
often-
of idolatry
forms, do
committed
either
{a)
In
Adam.
(5)
In
For
tlie
a
very
deliberate
and
their act, and
sinned in their
the
murderous
or
lustful
act
oneness
with
the
self-
vidualized, it
had no
specific unity,
Tills part of
original
righteousness
and
trary,
it
is
impossible
 
 Westminster
formula.
be difficult
of
nature,
by
this
method
tion
[of Adam's sin]
immediately
to
all
his
to
any
[Iiereditary
cor-
proper
imputation
of
Adam's
[firsf]
initio)
as
to
include
not
God.
is
a
nature,
it
that
no
blame
sin may
be con-
(a)
It
is
blind-
ness.
3 :
17,
will-
1
Tim.
4 :
2,
seen in
{a)
Enmity.
nature
differ
from
the
Shedd
prohibits
that
in-
chief
because
truly
culpa-
If
of-
illustrates the guilt
of sin as
God,
and
the mind
; but sometimes
he denominates
Man's
true
happi-
tumcst.
The
is from
will. Then
;
in
infants,
saj's
that
in act
will
Says Charnocke (Holiness
voluntary
voluntary
by
habitual
frame and bent of the soul which the law of God
doth in the first place direct.
So
that
the
empoisoned
nat-
ure
which makes
of
in
a
certain
deform-
of something
which deserves
its
ing, resolve to incline,
order that the
which
a disposition
reference
to
ihs
relation
of
origin
of
it,
but
He
does
not
carry
the
When
account, and only
The
whole
as follows :
the cause
causes or authors
inclination,
or
disposition],
in
any
case
ever
can
be
[volition], in
a
voli-
tion
the cause
its
fol-
something antecedent in him,
will
or
it
blame
is
same
kind,
implies
that
the will
that precedes
 
of self-determination,
contrary,
and
is
really
voluntary
from
lust
upon
this
point :
which
are
the
effects
object of precept or
or
act
of
men's
bodies
or
minds
volition.
 
he
appropriated
the
terms
The dictum of
referred is
They agree
they issue
from his
sinful inclination
tion
that
does not depend
upon its origin,
of no
so horn. Hodge
holiness and
to God
dispo-
sition
or
inclination.
Man
is
God
can
ural
renewed man. An
he
never
dreams
of
inborn depravity
abso-
lute.
It
is
the
own
holy
?
does not
follow
that
sin
be
shown,
first,
that
the
demerit
of
say, therefore,
the
and
yet
this
is
case,
we
upon
any
in
his
a
punish sin.
God in
co-operating
agency
in
a
creature's
a
to
be
attributed
to
this
blessed
God
tain of
tlie
Su-
Its
nant
before
unregenerate,
it
occupies
all
the
 
love
of
God
and
History
of
Doctrine,
{to, rov
refrain more
spiritually
and
the children
for the
of
before,
and
will
breaks
faith in
and
country
to
which
;
science. Human
of
heart,
a
wide
away from
art, from
gone,
denote that
which be-
son. The
patriotic affec-
and the
natural impulse which
acts both in
plants and animals,
namely, the desire
founded in
in
the
like
the
family
and
for
his
family,
and
or that it
A
sense of
He
is
really
and
in
distinction from created.
of
God
in
creation,
but
The
or
law by ex-
obey the
called
nature
does
'
whether
it
is
proper
made upon
an insane
person
is not a moral agent, and is incapable of moral inclination.
If,
however,
2. In the second
to
obey
God,
law. Consequently,
he had
the
loss
will
obey the law of God, if he obey it,
and
avoids
disposition
asserts that he
obligated
ence
of
want of
negative,
and
his
wounds
pronounces
he
has
strensth
surgeon. 'Your
and its most important
God as the su-
say
that
illustration,
who
a
he had
sin itself
denied
the
to
love
Him.
A
man
who
:
 
exerted.
natural
ability,
we
can
ab-
from its exercise
the ability
Whether
this
but upon the
separate
substances
ity, we cannot tliTis
its
conceivable
separation,
there-
exerts and
uses it
was
unquestionably
correct,
in
of the
instance
and
yet
will
a
natural
ability
to
love
or
obey,
because
a
natural
ability
may
not
be
in
use
and
moral
ability
the
former.
ability.
inclination, or
Moral
inability
inclination,
of a contrary inclination. It may be said, in one
word,
that
of inclination.
meant
moral and
the nature
of things,
be vicious,
the thistle.
same
thing
as
Edwards
was
willing
to
as
real
and
abso-
real and
ent
with
in
the
sinful
tion,
in
Adam
self-de-
termination
Adam.
Sinful
in-
fascinated
(illecta),
can
exclude
volun-
tary.
free,
made
itself
the
under
this
kind
of
voluntary
and
was long ago
inability
vert
sinful
sinfully
point
and
starting-point
of
evil,
it
is
impossible
of
cannot
be
originated
by
method.
creature is
man
as
would be
15 : 10. The testimony
of the angelic consciousness
Luke
;
instantly
;
command unless it willed
not
it
forth
as
it
willeth.
The
will
commandeth
tliat
there
be
a
It is certain,
or inability
same. The kind
to disobey
man
to
defect
of
the loss
human
will.
To
do
wrong
right.
This
do
reserve,
as
it
were,
be-
hind
the
existing
determination,
by
free will as the
that
undo the inclina-
tion to sin.
Chauncey,
by
the
were established
shall establish in it-
self-determination
sin. The
Relative
and
actuation
impulse
and
simply
Augustine,
as
quoted
by
is chosen when
way
that
influenced
all
Divine
influence
is
cause
any
poral
it.
But
holiness
is
negation
sinning is
not an
belong
that
God is not free, or that he has less power than a man
or angel
an
God
the
nature
of
the
3),
but
of
God.
cannot
be
destroyed
by
any
subsequent
not destroy
the
final
settle-
 
power.
conscience,
But if after creation
alteration
be
made
in
does those acts
to
become
just,
whenever
he
come well whenever he pleases, even though it so happen
that he is
voluntarily sick owing
sick
power
the
power
of
a
man
who
has
; for
was
like
manner,
not to
so,
it
is
no
and in-
of the
ugly
by
case is the same
 
731)
that
would relieve
the unjust
says,
is
pleas-
If this
no
indebtedness.
He
cannot
be least
reply
to
things out of
will
is
not
will
finds
the
written
self-determinedly
the subjective
and
personal
regard
to
his
own
to be esti-
mated rom the
the
freedom
good or evil.
No
real
and
true
real
case is
physical
a
And
to
God,
yet
not
to
matter.
It is not produced by the operation of the law
of
in
sin,
obey
the
law,
do the
do the
;
perfectly
find
out
that
he
has
use
them.
Says
Howe
(De-
a
pleasant relish
sidering
there
re-
main
with
me
an
habitual
be
my
able.
If
I
continually
downward
come there.
Well, then,
another
heart,
inability
In
this
case,
the work of the preacher is to make the ob-
jector eat
his own
important fact that the
sinner's inability is guilty,
is
incom-
we
would
not
com-
mand
the
and
creative
power.
Christ's
command
to
would
follow
one, in other
3. The tenet
possible, and endless
the impressions
he
certainly
never
will
sin.
Suppose
law cannot be
by will
is
a
free
self-determination
culpable,
of
the
sinner's
immense
original righteousness
 
themselves,
Rom.
8
of the
no
holiness,
that
is,
no
Christian
Eeligion,
Qu.
Apostles' Creed,
Diss. XTV.
iv. Bunyan : On
:
himself
 
(Sept. Aquila,
Ewald,
:
man in the Old
both
up
;
Mes-
siah
each. In both he is: (a) The seed of the
woman,
Gen.
3
28:4-14; JSTumbers 24:5-
Turrettin
absolute,
(III. ii.
Secondly,
natural Son.
mercj', than
other
substance,
the
linman
of Christ's
to
sical sensation
or a
of
it
conscious-
ness.
When,
trin-
itarian
person
has
nature
him
a
person.
Says
either
stantially
doth it
Saj's Plooker
was
produced
by
Logos with
Christ did.
4. It
is the divine nature, and not the human, which is
the
is the
evinced
by
the
fact
that
this
complex
sep-
arated,
Christ's
were
soul
and
the
That the
body was
 
in
the
sepulchre.
The
like
est
inseparabilis,
quod
semel
of
them
should
the
be
taken
by
the cross, than the
is
taught
repeatedly
in
the
As the
prophet Isaiah
could know
no more
to disclose to
of the
which
it
was
compelled
limited
human
nature
hindered
a
of
miracles
continually
only
by
Zanchius,
Heidegger,
Ursinua,
and
more in
the sphere
instrument
heaven,
at
one
:
 
suppose that the
did communicate itself
He
did
Christ's words may
be understood to mean, that he does not know the time
of the judgment day, because
it was not among his
instructions
of
days,
no
man
did
more probable
that mind
youth in the temple
this
occurrence,
cry
and comfort
Heb.
13
concerning
the
apply
here.
soul and
Virgin
trinitarian
be-
ing
yet
name of the un-
but
forth
a
son,
and
the
Ghost
not
be
trinitarian
designation
vine. If the
consider,
says
Usher
per-
Trinity.
See
Hooker,
Holy
Spirit.
But
the
Eternal
Son
is.
 
 
and
the Logos
he ceases to
both
forms
—that
a
servant
in and
simultaneously
he
is
his
total
presence
throughout
places
where
his
body
tality, nor to
him and in him.
son
in
self-conscious-
ness.
15),
of
the
same.
the
humanity
it
thereby assuming
in its state-
and
The
In the theological
assume
a
man's
per-
own
per-
son
formed
and
which he
is the personal
hav-
own, into
Christ,
Ch.
into
subsistence
Christ
had
a man
and
first (statim)
individual
but
is,
it
:
and
does
not
belong
nature,
the
personality
the human
nature of
terms
are
with propriety
continued
prevalence
may
be
taken
as
a
proof
>
When we
speak of
no longer
personalized
by
the
union.
assertion.
Dorner's
objection
place of the human,
of the Virgin.
him man's
thereof.
individual
man,
does
not
have
seed
{crirepf/,a)
of
Abraham,
Ileb.
2 :
16.
Saint
Paul's
figure
of
belong
to
the
as yet the
potter must
fi'om
also
phrase, individuated, or
The
difference,
then,
between
nature
and
person
is
virtually
morphosed
individual
and
only,
by
division
into
mill-
substance which
yet it is capable of
being
actu-
ally
personalized,
 
Hooker
(Y.
lii.),
that which
In the case of an
ordinary human person,
or tlie spir-
mere corpse,
substance of the
with
it.
Jesus
whole
remainder
in the
population existing
a
fraction
of
The
the
Lord.
Ileb.
4 :
15,
like as we
assumed
the
the theologians
agree. They
assert the
consequent
sinfulness
of
human
a
cleansed
came into this
Son of
but to
conceived
thi'ough
carnal
concupiscence,
was born could
it,
sanctificata, caro est,
sinus (Christian Keligion,
taken
out
stant
sanctified
man nature was first
out of his
certain
any personal infirmities
by
the
Spirit
of
God,
the
former
of
Spirit
in
respect
 
limited.
To
corrupt
race
miracu-
lous
conception :
moral
corruption.
the
composite
ogy,
p.
^1
sq.
1
Irving's
view
is,
its
stirrings
of
this
Bion, but
Irving
contends
that
Christ
sinful man experiences.
ble
be
nscessary
unto
sented
Ir-
ving
to which
species of
temptation that
James 1 :
spiritual
Only,
;
'
traducianiam
and
creationism.
According
to
do
with
the
doctrine
man in
and then
any one
in
reason
in
design
to
incarnate
his
doth in this single
corrupted
: a most
that
self
-conscious-
eternal Son
to say, individualized.
complex
theanthropic
God. And these
personal acts of Jesus
conscious
experience
in
one
and
the
one
general
of
conscious-
feeling;
divine
perception,
a
finite
consciousness
of
position and rela-
Word
has
all
the
the God-man
from
the
(Rom.
9 :
5),
texts are :
and
manhood,
it into
that
Eom.
1 :
3,
4,
which
natures,
not
that
Christ
had
mixing
the
natures.
A
according to the flesh, and
 
being antithetic
nature,
which
so
doth
and the same
person
hav-
conceived
eighteen centuries
throne,
and
soul
subsist
and
this
particular
:
 
possessed
the
fact
that
there
are
two
be-
human,
because
per-
son.
ousness, Jesus Christ
;
This fluctuation
of a
and form
of his
and spiritual
in the person,
is a spiritual person,
according
as
not
acquire
omnipotence,
man
nature,
kingdom of God, and
be
impossible
to
though
the
The man, or
both
thinks
and
walks
them
nature or substance
a
A
nature
must
be
/
human
ceived,
{nroa-racriv
properties of both
of them.
properties
p.
238)
says
cantur.
the in-
so also with
with the
Matt. 28
20. The
is not, as the
nature wherever
deity
with
the
humanity
is
in effect
itself so
present
anywhere
in
humanity,
but
always
as
united
union between
for illustration,
moment
the
then
be
two
persons,
by
affirming
that
by
reason
of
the
in-
timate
personal
union
of
the
two
natures
neither
acts,
the
exaltation of
the human.
regenerate
will
the
He is
; this
proves
nature
that
has
are
no
longer
human
nature,
self-conscious
person
Jesus
Christ.
And
not
hj
creation,
and
so
might
incarnation,
the
latter
is
this
latter
sin, he would
be
confined
to
the
eminent
would sin.
the
leave it to
leave
be
character-
istics
the
in-
finite
there might
that my
to say tliat
all forms of
inherent
power,
but
by
the
He,
therefore,
is
absolutely
intemptable.
men,
is
Scripture
which is
The
human.
temptability, and
it
'
'
with a
his
been
renewed,
and
its
succeeding
No human being
in the
and
most
painful
sufferiiio-s
in
on thrones
and
for
temptation
in
the
wilderness
succeeded,
temptations
were
slight,
experience the
strained by
him
that
was
able
 
of them sin-
(John
5 :
-±4
he must repent
obtain forgiveness
:
therefore,
wickedness (KaKia),
he
might
have
continued
to
luive
we
are,
yet
without
ino-
is
not,
that
our
the
meaning
is
not
that
he
 
of
suf-
fering
world than
with
that
which
came
and immedi-
do
wardly proposed, but also with his own heart about it.
Again he remarks (Holy Spirit, II.
iii),
unto
which
The
lon would
?
 
was
in the heavenly
lest
they
be
wearied
di-
minished
10,
that
to be
to
have
had
he
been
that
of
delivering
remorse
from
remorse,
be
able
be
the
title
as
being
appointed
and
human
re-
demption
designation of
ception.
1.
The
mediator
He cannot
take
man's
nature
into
union
a
commissioner
sent
in earth
him all
25;
life,
: be-
do
mine
own
will,
but
17
him,
that
: 28. Accordingly, the
office
of
office
be
exercised.
up
tlie
kingdom
the Son also
was no mediatorial
posi-
creator,
and
never lay
not
necessarily
implied
in
his
God the Son
of mediator
refers not
of Jesus
had
originally
and
from
all
2:
9,
 We
[e)
Because
Scripture
as
words
which
I
have
the
secondary or
the Church
interpretation.
yet
as
the
42
Christ in
isolation, and
the evangelical.
upon
the
at-
tribute
This
 
of grace, wherein he
salvation
by
Jesus
them
willing
mediator, is
refers
to
dispensation,
But the
only passage
the death
of
Lord will
: 13.
Enoch
 
in the Old
on Gal.
of the
was
both
dispensation.
The
Westminster Larger Catechism,
will
of
God
ical
to
than that of mere vati-
cination,
 
names that
of
such
a
feeling.
From the
fulness
woi'Id,
the
{a)
of
grace
that
should
come,
and
who
sense that
sufficient to estab-
the
excep-
tion,
therefore,
is
called
Christ's
preaching.
Again,
1 Cor.
mainly expiatory
and reconciling.
that
Jesus
Christ
have
somewhat
to
offer,
priest.
The
animal food
described
must
be
used
of
and
ham and the other
14 :
18,
19.
Isaac
builds
an
was not
priesthood.
The
Romish
would
his
prophetical
and the
have an advocate
7:
25,
 Where-
liveth to make intercession for them.
John 17 :
;
heavens, and
 
of
Christ's
in-
is found
of
the
characteristic
of
which
they
that
for
John
16
showing that
to be
intercession in heaven. And this intercession rested for its
ground
and
reason
The same connection
:
Eph.
4:8.
The
intercession
of
De neces-
sitate satisfactionis
Apostles' Creed,
Critique of Grotius. tr. in Bib. Sacra, 1852, Watson : Insti-
tutes,
II.
:
for
{avTi)
many.
Matt.
10
all. 2
Cor. 5
sin
English preposition
child,
(John
15 :
13)
lays
may mean
be
excluded
by
(inrep iravTSiv),
then all
died (Trai/re?
Christ is regarded as
vTrep may be used in the sense of avA. Magee
(Atonement,
Dissertation
;).
Plellenica,
207
and H.
the
same
the
'Sew
Testament
writers
un-ep
Tifjuav^
or
the preposition virep.
trans-
ished
he would have
destitute
of
have inflicted the
gressed.
But
in
permitting,
ligation
to
by
the
sinner
criminal,
not
given
by
him.
but
vicarious
atonement
made
by
the
offended
party.
sion. Vicarious atonement, consequently, is
the
highest
case
stead is not
their stead ? Would
ors'
are not
the
substitute.
were one and the same being, then the pecuniary loss
incurred by the vicarious
from
each
gave his only begotten
it
by
no
means
Trinity
second
person.
death,
his
as
Zechariah
(13
: Y)
between
Unitarianisra
and
and spontaneously
vicarious
and
spontaneously
merciful.
(6)
Christ was incarnate God
an
inward
suffering.
fice
for
his
only
even
if
there
innocent
to
suffer
for
will not
First,
each
citizen.
There
are
debts
for that
of
human
relations.
And
a
manner
that
interferes
early
Roman
history,
an
individ-
Baptist missionary
and
upon
the
head
national transgression. Two particulars are
to
be
noticed
in
this
account,
{a)
offers it must not get any enjoyment
out of
burned :
suffering,
:
Mosaisohen
Cultus,
denies
that
there
ia
anything
behind thy
atoning
jiropitiated,
or
not
(In-
stitutiones,
divinae
erga
peccatorem.
petition for
in the
 
relation
of
effect
whose
is
out
be
no
remission
antecedent
the less.
If God's
If God's
If God so
certainly so loves it
the
depths
sioned
and sub-
soul in
wonder
and
it
 cover
sin,
man.
The
the Primitive church, and from this
into
both
the
Romish
two is not essential,
God. It
(1
John
2
: 2
future
offering
of
the
of Jesus
of
the
doctrine
Athenaeus
(X.
33)
Holy Goramunionj it is
and wrongs
of
the
offending
 We say of
party
from
whose
 wrath
the
of sin
servants
ye
to the strong
the
same
objec-
tive
the effect
it
is
a
forced
a
self-contradictory
use
of
Divine
Being
is
ap-
propitiation, i-econ-
originating
active and
is
the
Being
who
is
angry
at
sin,
and
he
who
who
holy Judge of
case
in Coloss.
propitiating influence when
he makes this
(Trinity,
Mediator
reconciles
us
offers
it,
the sinner.
everlasting
damna-
to
save
from
the
displeasure.
the
effects
hosts.
Turn
ye
unto
me,
hosts.
Also
(Job
42:
7,
8),
yourselves
a
yet ho
himself provides
with the
21),
confide their complaints
to call upon
Wratli
exercise,
eternal in
God. God
God the judge of men.
Whether this
as he is
towards
Divine
essence
which
case is
a self-sacrifice
the
at
the
and
every
hast made
from Augus-
have in
in
his
sight,
God
of
Christ
 
offended with
fact
At the very
capable of devising
very
instant
his
supplication
pleasure, says to
;
bor's
malig-
by
the
moral
excellence
and more deadly.
nocence
of
Christ.
Kousseau (Confessions, IX.),
 is only roused
before
compassion
expressed in the lines
When
St.
Paul
conscience towards
Could
St.
duced
repentance
in the
of-
The justice and
the mercy, the
wr th and
subject
doctrine of
Son,
the
Father
and
the
Spirit.
work which
neither of
tliem does.
Son.
tion
to
the
a
secondary
subjective
propitation
for
2
The belief of
to
establish
sin or not,
himself, 2 Tim.
a soul
neverthe-
less
that this
death is
world.
that the kind
death of
of
that
there
neither
do
ecy of
belief
there is
divine
justice.
presupposes
the
objective
satis-
a
heart,
disgrace of justice, is
place of that
hardness of heart.
the Pharisees:
a
vica-
flow does
'
for example,
your wish
atonement
? We
have
seen
es-
: 1.
It is a
child
of
God ;
for illustration,
the
worst
of
sinners.
then
repeats
and
emplia-
sizes
the
Jerusalem.
There
was
tlierefore
a
calamitous
though
acknowledging
himself
extraordinary
of God
of
calamity,
by an
infinitely wise
calamity. It is adapted
penal.
Family
discipline
of
retribution.
Divine
govern-
ment,
they are not
an offence,
without any
satisfaction being
to
sphere
of
family
life,
there
is, therefore,
proportion to crime,
nature,
and
to
adapted to promote
A
Christian
of
sphere is
punishment
for
purposes
peaceable
tended
not so
intended and
disobedience.
The
children, then
is special, because
There
is
a
providential
fallen
in
creation.
explains it
In Job 38 :
? And
they
ac-
knowledged
his children,
foolish people and unwise ? Is not he thy father that
bought thee?
Plato
(Timaeus,
9)
says
that
indeed difficult. Horace
associated
towards
its
objects,
and
edst
say,
be
of
my
deeds.
manifest,
and
the
po-
requital.
Our
Lord,
in
the
His private interest
and deserves
and the quality
to penalty,
the same
be retribution,
Satan which
causing the
sinner's sub-
4
was
ployed to describe
distress did not
conscience. The agony
not that of
a
not have
despairing person,
statement
of
Luke
(23:46)
that
thy
was
to
which
it
and con-
noted.
1.
fore the world was. When it is said that Christ
experi-
and therefore the act may be called
an act of
But
Father could
love the
when visited
be angry
with his
beloved Son
divine
severity
for the maintenance
God is not seized
to suffer.
 I have,
when he
oush'
: 8.
Christ's
passive,
or
suffering
Edwards,
that
the
blood
of
a
And
Says
Edwards
(Redemption,
or
death
while
his body
was the
atonement consists
fering
but
active
obe-
is strictly piacular
and held
sary
the commandment,
government
and
candidate
for
heavenly
reward.
The
Mediator,
therefore,
for him,
the
believer,
piacular
of
atonement.
(5)
By
Retrib-
utive
the
transgressor
for
the claims
of the
world,
relation of an impenitent
rejection
of
jectively in reference to
prescribed
hu-
man
penalty
has
been
of
suffering
any-
grace
in
the
punish
him
any further, but it is debt. The law itself is under
obliga-
tion
world,
and
justice
is
them.
The
death
of
to him
should
sup-
For,
by
full penalty due to this sinner, and
then refuses
and which
is now
the
salvation
to tremble,
should interpose
in their
and
us.
Shedd
of all mankind
and in the
all that
it does.
appropriated,
it
would
result
in
in it, M'ould
in order that
this sum of
a
payment
of
a
debt.
to
step
up
there must be
be
a
substitution
his own sin, this
case
substitution
in
the
was
made,
and
Another error, underlying
own. He
has
injustice alleged
to,
in either
respect, (a)
de-
serves
the
when
the
unbeliever
is
rious
in this case, gets
a part, is
nite,
When,
therefore,
added
to that of Jesus
unites
and
penalty
because
in
required
by
the
violated
law
upon
merciful.
divine
justice,
and
justice
are separate the one
sinner, for whose advantage all
this
in the
form of
ner
to shine
iipon him
to that
do not cost
a species
so strange
is
then
the
highest
form
substitution of penalty
no
robbery
a
a
did
is to them of
first is
is foolish good
motive
of suffering,
this is the reason why it does not inflict it.
It
costs
an
forth
an
effort.
view.
Consequently,
the
Xdpt<s,
plained and
whole world experience the
of the
passage,
does
not
say
that
these
sins
passed
by
through
nature of justice,
justice
in
behalf
And
manifestation of mercy at all by a just Being. The
penalty
find
activity of
displeased
suffer,
and
for liim.
Justice, it
neither is it obliged to forbid it. If it were
true that
well
personally,
but
only
to
main-
Divine sovereignty
actual trans-
by a
sovereign government.
But God
may vary
vided
in a
of per-
Owen
uses
of
can compel it to be
content with none
pay
a
to
extinguish
debts
entirely,
by
a
The
principle
of adultery
made blind. Two eyes
As
substituted for
an identical
whose
place
of
sinners,
God
of that
it is
the value
sinner
and
not
:
I
lay
it
down
of
myself,
vicarious
atonement,
object
to
Dis-
a reference
understood
that
suffering
ed upon him would then t ke the name of
punishment.
In
no
other
sense,
con-
science
himself or not,
atonement
alty
cannot
of
punishment,
or
penalty,
denote
judicial
suffer-
while
a
same in both cases. But one hour of human suffering
through the
physical sentiency,
with
his personality.
nature,
the suffering
by
the
or seat
more than
seat of the suffering,
he
suffers
human
agony
in
sufferings
exceed
in
value
and
dignity
the
sufferings
for
which
they
were
substituted.
The
suf-
the
absolutely infinite
of
to preserve
may
suffer
was
party in the
likewise is
tion. This
substitution of
this
quarter.
Divine Being
to angels
transgressed,
and
under
behalf Eternal
Pity has
the
of
a
he
owns.
atone-
ment
value of the
term in
as
he
pleaseth,
to
pass
by.
arisen
between
disputants
who
were
really
in
agreement
its intrinsic
;
is
limited.
a
difference
of
God,
both
by working faith
in
value
to
pay
his
inures to his
Christ
an
explan-
ation
immediately,
and
without
circumlocution.
sacrifice of Christ for
expiation of
the
for them, and become
is
Tliat it
offerer
and
this is extei'nal
 
the Father hath
reconciliation
with
Grod
and are
people : so
he was
of Israel
is wholly the gift
solelj'
by
election.
in controversial
theology.' Atonement
texts:
those
whicli
redemption,
sufficiency,
and
publication,
but
limited
swer
be,
wholly
the gift
faith,
and enables
him to
the act,
without co-operation
faith in
yielding to the operation
of the Spirit. In
a
and that the Arminian really
adopts them when he sings
with
Charles
Wesley
 Other
sovereign,
in
bestow-
ing
reply
of the
sinner to
true, upon
not
therefoi'e,
it
cannot
be
upon the
election.
conditional
election,
Pelagian
willeth,
nor
of
God
be
of
man
no efficacy
assistance
I
that it is
tliat
resist
him,
but
averse,
has
wrought
applied
is
a
definiteness,
speech,
if
cant
in
circle is that
its value
two things
Christ is offered with
for the
of this
world
to
decide
actually
The
Divine
Father,
in
giving
10
: 15.
that nation
also he
were
scattered
abroad,
:
this fact
foundation
18 : 9.
him he
 
could
Christ could not
and not
the
atoning
sacrifice,
yet
apart
from
its
therefore
to
man's
from death
so that
made in such a way as to render it uncertain
whether
it
should
save
be
as
The
offer
of
Christ's
of an atonement,
in respect
to the
intended to
so it is not
for them,
shows
that
Christ's
was offered
to
there was
death
for those.
sins of the
Heb.
2 :
17,
Christ
redeemed].
Eom.
11
so the free
as
case, as
20,
meant. Turrettin
defends this,
Matt.
15:1Y;
19:12.
The
patience
and
long-suffer-
a
indiscriminately.
A
to the
others. In this
body, or
to
fact.
;
an
provided.
things
The extent
buy it
consideration
in the
instance of
tute
in
this
passage
by the
erly
call
upon
the
divine desire
in
the
least
by
nor by
God, who prevents
real
water
and
be
suicide's
free
will.
the
universal
If
atone-
ment
non-elect
to
strengthen
his
aversion
to
grace,
with
the
inconsistent.
But
none
of
these
suppositions
sin, for
all sin
for
the
individual
himself
faith, true believers
Spirit of
promise, Eph.
is consequently
believe that
than that he
men, because even
Turrettin,
(XVI.
xiv.
11)
mentions
(h)
them-
selves,
upon
class of reasons
that have reference
this
obey it.
The question
to
been
preached
and
this
justified
its
proclamation
moral law without the
that has
power
that
man
had
atonement for
showing the
more powerfully than they can be in any other manner.
The offer of the atonement is consequently
a
forgiving
Leighton : On Eegeneration.
ing
[Larger
Catechism,
67,
adds,
accom-
plished
the carnal
to
denote
This wide use of the term passed into the
English theol-
generally
this
continually
application of redemp-
of conviction of sin to the
act
of
saving
Fisher
tion
The apostle,
in Eph.
old
soul, are what is
;
there
are
two
distinct
words
in
;
 
We
shall
and
a
ination
instantane-
ous
is
It had
Testament.
Ezek.
11
you
an
heai't
of
flesh.
Ezek.
36
seed, to love
light
of
the
the
12,
13.
is
form
of
man understands
then
the
production
not
illumine
his
mind
in
in Scripture. Said Christ to
the
Jews,
God. Christ
the great
14.
 The
truth,
according
to
justification,
for
example,
(b)
An
apprehen-
 
their
flesh,
and
will
his
but
disposition
Holy
Spirit.
The
the
creature.
He
*'
any
not
a
new
faculty
of
of exercise
of the
forth
single
vo-
God,
is
not
able
contrary.
The
plain
inability
has
been
explained
in
Anthropology.
and this
act was
will
proved
thy
shall shew forth thy
Holy
Spirit
human soul itself. It
one of the trinitarian
26,
27,
the human
terius
eam
inclinando.
Aquinas
sivity
when
the
divine
and
not
originate
animal
God's regenerating
act is
length of time in
temporis in
time,
Enmity and
love are
point of
ii.
6.
human will performs
own
nature,
antecedent
though
ineffectual
desires
of
the
canons
life.
tone and
already has some
force in the
stated in the
quickened and
renewed by
to
an-
he is
When
Christ
(Luke
18 :
42)
famoring
is below consciousness.
instanta-
regeneration
the strict
and
prayer.
there
;
spirit.
instruments
to
be
the creative
dust.
The
Divine
omnipotence
di-
rect
contact,
it is originated.
It
contrib-
uted
nothing
the use of means,
con-
stupefied
the
truth.
It
possesses
some
vitality
that
sin is
presented, it
determined or inclined,
be-
and faith in
holiness.
re-
generating
of God
precedence of
 
regener-
ated.'
8.
Regeneration
is
the
cause
of
conversion.
as it is in
 
which the
birth takes
Acts
2 :
38,
be
a
Prince
repentance
unto
life,
Acts
2
Tim.
2 :
24.
The
that
God
has
made
third
church
I will not open
dren, how
The latter
a
work
per-
but he has
with
this.
Moved
of the
promised,
because
no
of
the
non-elect,
or
to
affirm
this
of
the
warrant or
or
grace.
In
outpouring
forbid-
the
Holy
a right spirit.'
and
retribution,
is
not
without
means,
(Westminster
Confession,
Y.
ii.),
can
convict
a
sinner
without
his
co-oper-
and
thoughtless
and
the
Di-
vine
the believer.
he is
a
suitable
subject
in
regenerating
grace.
One
—reading and
associations
and
quench
conviction,
and
prayer
he
a debt,
ful
assistance,
that
probably
do
spontaneous
growth
of
corrupt
riousness
way of
use of
even
if
danger,
but
lives
;
as to
be
things
which
God
commands,
yet
because
they
not
follow
not deserve
an answer
not,
is,
with a
sanc-
tification
con-
victed
sinner
without
me
one,
to sinners in
which,
nevertheless,
that
the
prayer
of
a
convicted
himself,
and
prepares
humble
by
by
showing
the
person
his
asks
means but
person
such
a
reqivest
on
our
of God of what
by
its
effects.
and
ought
to
that condi-
as disclosed
be that
It
is
a
duty
enjoined
upon
all
men
appointed
certain
finds
this
preparation,
is commonly followed
victed
men
followed
by
regener-
ating
grace,
both
the
sinner
are means
gospel.
He
implores
knowledge
all
discovered
that
to reform,
external reformation,
that
he
leaves
all
these
behind
most energetic
It
implore
the
 enlightening
;
 
and Practice
from re-
of existence, and away
promise,
but
receiveth
and
statements
made
by
apostles,
but not all who are not skeptics have faith. Faith is
ac-
companied
with
love
ful, but
This distinction is marked
in the New Testament,
the
object
is
to
assent
of
the
(ovk
iritTTeva-ei)
  Luke
which
me, except it were
given him of my
him
regenera-
tion
again, he cannot
act of
understanding
; involving a spiritual
(a)
That
faith
6
redemption
purchased
by
Christ,
by
working
faith
by
which
Christ's
atonement
for
sin
is
laid
Trusting
faith
is
the
and
his
between individuals
in a
the
Holy
the Lord
:
it in-
Christ.
John
14
25,
shall he live. Gal. 2
:
eternal
lowing anecdote :  In a
drawing
his hand, and looking in his troubled
face asked him
him
first
knows that as soon as we trust
him we
how
in him, and every
He drank in all
united
as its object
the Levitical
of God concerning
Confes-
sion
(XV.
ii.)
A
sense not only of the danger, but of the odiousness of sin.
(J)
(«f)  The purpose
iniqui-
7:11,
 That
ye
sor-
rowed
is
wrought
in
from
shame
on
account
taneous,
to
but by me. John
and
as he is,
that he
man
Rom. 5
sinners
are
commanded
Jesus
Christ,
in
order
to
legal
objected
we
Justification
Justi-
fication
;
doctrines
in
the
it in their
of
sin
and
;
The former is
endurance
:
 
obedience.
But
it
says :
and
render
the
owes
both
pen-
as
penalty
and
precept.
Hence
the
vicarious agency.
the believer
meanings, like
to
hearts,
employs
the
term
person
of works. This is perfect personal
conformity to
fectly] doeth
righteousness, or
perfect obedience,
:
perfect
obedi-
ence,
he
that
 
:
transgressed.
It
sometliing
given
to
or equivalent being required from him in return.
 Ho,
that
:
be
him,
he
is
in respect to
is the
graces
merit
of
Christ's
work,
sinner
is
instantaneous
and
com-
plete.
It
is
a
on him
act
sum-
total
of
his
the Divine
made
with
hands,
that
by
the
sac-
that look for him
For
decree is.
serves eternal
withdrawal of
very
severe
and
painful
the
unpardoned.
Ps. 116 :
was heavy
sinner includes a title
or
he
can
has
the end
believer
cannot
establish
infinite-
and
eternal
reward
upon
the ground of his imperfect and halting service of God here
in this life. He must therefore
found
as he ex-
his future
following
right-
righteousness, and sanctification. 2 Cor. 5 :
21,
to
access with confidence. The
an
If an angel
a
single
instance,
do
not
fulfil
every
does
not
he
will
to
be
found in man, that deserves the name of righteousness in
the
called
a
a
blessing.
This
would
are
de-
scribed
as
self-righteous
and
never
knew
receive
he may
 
unto
us
sancti-
a
believer's
Christ's
active
;
is still
does
not
stop
with
justification.
Kom.
8
in
Scripture
existing
graces
synonymous
with
to
so sanctification
vivid
spiritual
perception
infirmities, and
God,
press toward the
I see another
a glorious church
Jesus Christ.
tive in God, it may not be subjective
in man. God knows
purpose
by
the
operation
of
his
Spirit
within
him
to
doubts
and
fears.
Ex-
apostasy,
suit
such
an
would
not
re-
nature,
are
sacrifice.
Justification
supplies
the
It is also
for
the
forgiveness
that
comes
the
fact
that
he
accompany
salvation,
though
we
First,
because
his
object
is
to
ponent with
be
jus-
;
the
Church, Calvin (Dedication
and visible.
; the latter,
of aU
members
:
before
men,
such
:
Cor. 2
pledged
carious atonement in the
in
they
are
 really,
but
spiritually,
present
are (a)
The believer,
sacrifice for the remission of his sins. This is meant
by
6 :
53-
56,
his blood,
of Christ
Christ,
of
but for aught
which
or
by
pres^
when
the flesh
saci'ament
unless
he
be
con-
cealed
is
said
sacraments is,
by their
of
baptism,
or
of
produced in
 
re-
sulting
from
tlie
sacrament
Spirit in
Ghost.
to say,
glorified
and
unglorified
body
the bread and
and on earth.
resurrection
and
at
jiis
words of
do
with
i-eformer. The
is
a
means
that
the
sacraments
are
ening
faith.
Sigwart
in
this
sacrament, denying with
employed by the
IV.
xiv.
17),
the
extrav-
agant
language
used
by
annexed
us capable
of receiving
this testimony.
For the
of
covenants,
on
the
part
as
we
have
seen
done
confer any
by
by a true
per
is
of
sanctification.
;
latter is of
is
shown
by
the
omission
16,
when
damna-
seal
on
a
legal
document.
The
confidence
in
the
genuine-
a
sign
that
he
either
has
actual
confer-
ring
the
and
seal
of
is administered
Spirit, signiiied
to be a
and that even
On this
circumcision
of
the
heart.
Spirit as
38]
is
the
as
the
to
God
inspection and government
IX.
They
are
ciiurch
members
by
Church
membership
by
;
church
and
daily
observation
presumed to
course, he must
be
regarded as a citizen. So a baptized child, in adult years,
may
membership, become
synagogue
are
not
more
numerous
;
a
sign.
It
not
be
conferred
on
in-
infallible
connection
be-
tween
infant
baptisna
But the
believer's fulfilment
and
education
in
the
bestowment
of
regen-
erating
yet not
most
common
(c)
Lepers
gation were
be
clean.
A
unto you.
and sometimes
;
cups, pots, vessels,
like that
a priest or his
proof
by
Jesus
Christ,
with
by
The custom in the Patristic church of immersing in the
laver
of
the
baptistery ;
and
(b)
The
with all
and laver are
The fresco in
another.
washing
it
ritual
less,
but
not
all
over
and
entirely.'
The
passages
term
ual
that
41),
of
:
of
only
here
the
account
were
in
a
water suificient
and
that was
 
God
in
rejected
it.
John's
world,
John
 
the Lord Jesus.''
Death
5 : 8.
raised until the
day of judgment,
implies that the
resurrection
is
a
disembodied
greatly misconceived,
and the
condition
Apostles,
Little
sins.
Justin
Martyr
(Trypho,
Ch.
V.)
this fable,
(Calvinistic)
churches,
is
graves
enjoying of God to all eternity. Shorter Catechism,
37,
38.
and
the
misera-
not
continue
to
prevail
univer-
be
understood
by
a
shadowy,
raphers, and many of the
lexicons formally
The former
The
Greeks
and
evil.
In
sin-
ner
in
Hades
Later-Jews
is
seen
Antiq.,
YI.
xiv.
2.
Yet
in
5),
;
uninspired, of the state
known subject
Egyptians,
one
follow