The GOSPEL TRUTH
FINNEY'S LECTURES

ON

SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY

1847

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 CONTENTS

TITLE PAGE

PREFACE

 

LECTURE XLV.

VARIOUS CLASSES OF TRUTHS

Enumerated and elucidated

 

LECTURE XLVI.

NATURAL ABILITY.

Show what is the Edwardean notion of ability This natural ability is no ability at all What, according to this school, constitutes natural inability This natural inability is no inability at all Natural ability is identical with freedom or liberty of will

The human will is free, therefore men have ability to do all their duty

 

LECTURE XLVII.

MORAL ABILITY.

What constitutes moral inability according to the Edward school

Their moral inability consists in real disobedience and a natural inability to obey

This pretended distinction between natural and moral inability is non-sensical

What constitutes moral ability according to this school

Their moral ability to obey God is nothing else than real obedience, and a natural inability to disobey

 

LECTURE XLVIII.

INABILITY.

What is thought to be the fundamental error of the Edwardean school on the subject of ability

State the philosophy of the scheme of inability about to be considered

The claims of this philosophy

 

LECTURE XLIX.

GRACIOUS ABILITY.

What is intended by the term

This doctrine as held an absurdity

In what sense a gracious ability is possible

 

LECTURE L.

THE NOTION OF INABILITY.

Proper mode of accounting for it

 

LECTURE LI.

REPENTANCE AND IMPENITENCE.

What repentance is not and what it is

What is implied in it

What impenitence is not

What it is

Some things that are implied in it

Some evidences of it

 

LECTURE LII.

FAITH AND UNBELIEF.

What evangelical faith is not

What it is

What is implied in it

What unbelief is not

What it is,--What is implied in it

Conditions of both faith and unbelief

The guilt and desert of unbelief

Natural and governmental consequences of both faith and unbelief

 

LECTURE LIII.

JUSTIFICATION.

What justification is not

What it is

Conditions of gospel justification

 

LECTURE LIV.

SANCTIFICATION.

An account of the recent discussions that have been had on this subject

 

LECTURE LV.

SANCTIFICATION.

Remind you of some points that have been settled in this course of study

Definition of the principal terms to be used in this discussion

 

LECTURE LVI.

SANCTIFICATION.

Entire sanctification is attainable in this life

 

LECTURE LVII.

SANCTIFICATION.

Bible Argument

 

LECTURE LVIII.

SANCTIFICATION.

Paul entirely sanctified

 

LECTURE LIX.

SANCTIFICATION.

Condition of its attainment

 

LECTURE LX.

SANCTIFICATION.

Condition of its attainment--continued

Relations of Christ to the believer

 

LECTURE LXI.

SANCTIFICATION.

Relations of Christ to the believer--continued

 

LECTURE LXII.

SANCTIFICATION,

Relations of Christ to the believer--continued

 

LECTURE LXIII.

SANCTIFICATION.

Relations of Christ to the believer--continued

 

LECTURE LXIV.

SANCTIFICATION.

Relations of Christ to the believer--continued

 

LECTURE LXV.

SANCTIFICATION.

Objections answered

 

LECTURE LXVI.

SANCTIFICATION.

Tendency of the denial that Christians have valid grounds of hope that they shall obtain a victory over sin in this life

 

LECTURE LXVII.

SANCTIFICATION.

Objections--continued

 

LECTURE LXVIII.

SANCTIFICATION.

Objections--continued

 

LECTURE LXIX.

SANCTIFICATION.

Objections--continued

 

LECTURE LXX

SANCTIFICATION.

Remarks

 

LECTURE LXXI.

ELECTION.

Reference to points that have been settled

What the Bible doctrine of election is not

What the Bible doctrine of election is

Prove the doctrine as stated to be true

What could not have been the reason for election

What must have been the reason for election

When the election was made

Election does not render means for the salvation of the elect unnecessary

Election lays a foundation for hope in the use of means

Election does not oppose any obstacle to the salvation of the non-elect

There is no injustice in election

This is the best that could be done for the inhabitants of this world

How we may ascertain our own election

Inferences and remarks

 

LECTURE LXXII

REPROBATION.

What the true doctrine of reprobation is not

What the true doctrine of reprobation is

This is a doctrine of reason.

This is a doctrine of revelation

Why sinners are reprobated or rejected

When sinners are reprobated

Reprobation just

Reprobation is benevolent

Reprobation is the best thing that can be done, ail things considered

How it may be known who are reprobated

Objections

Remarks

 

LECTURE LXXIII.

DIVINE SOVEREIGNTY.

What is not intended by the term sovereignty when applied to God

What is intended by Divine Sovereignty

God is and ought to be a universal and absolute sovereign

Remarks

 

LECTURE LXXIV.

PURPOSES OF GOD.

What the writer understands by the purposes of God

Distinction between purpose and decree

There must be some sense in which God's purposes extend to all events

Different senses in which God purposes different events

God's revealed will never inconsistent with his secret purpose

Wisdom and benevolence of the purposes of God

The immutability of the divine purposes

The purposes of God a ground of eternal and joyful confidence.

The relation of God's purposes to his prescience

God's purposes not inconsistent with, but demand the use of means both on his part and on ours, to accomplish them

 

LECTURE LXXV.

PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS.

Notice the different kinds of certainty

What is not intended by the perseverance of the saints.

 

LECTURE LXXVI.

PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS.

Objections answered

 

LECTURE LXXVII.

PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS.

Further objections considered.

 

LECTURE LXXVIII.

PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS.

Consideration of the principal arguments in support of the doctrine

 

LECTURE LXXIX.

PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS.

Perseverance proved

 

 

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