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( FIFTH ISSUE .)
THE DOCTRINES OF PREDESTINATION, REPROBATION, AND ELECTION.
EVANGELICAL UNION DOCTRINAL SERIES.
The following Volumes of the Series are now ready, Price is. 6d. each:
REGENERATION: Its Conditions and Methods. By the Rev. ROBERT
CRAIG, M.A. THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD. By the Rev. ROBERT MITCHELL. THE HOLY SPIRIT'S WORK: Its Nature and Extent. By the Rev. GEORGE
CRON. THE NATURE OF THE ATONEMENT. By the Rev. WILLIAM ADAMSON, D.D.
OTHERS IN PREPARATION.
THE DOCTRINES OF PREDESTINATION, REPROBATION, AND ELECTION. BY
ROBERT WALLACE, Pastor of Cathcart Road E. U. Church, Glasgow.
LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO. GLASGOW: THOMAS D. MORISON. 1880. PREFACE.
WERE a number of shipwrecked mariners cast upon an island, one of
their first inquiries would be, Is it inhabited? Having observed
footmarks upon the sand, and other tokens of man's presence, another
question would be, What is the character of the people? Are they
anthropophagi, or are they of a friendly disposition? The importance
of such questions would be realised by all. Their lives might depend
upon the answer to the latter. We look around upon the universe, and everywhere observe marks of
design, or the adapation of means to ends. The conviction gathers
upon us with deepening power, that there must have been a supreme
intelligence arranging the forces of nature. If I throw the dice box
twenty times, and the same numbers always turn up, I cannot resist
the conclusion that the dice must have been loaded. The application
is simple. But, as in the case of the mariners, a second question
arises, viz.: What is the character of the Being revealed in
nature? Is He beneficent, or like the fabled Chronus, who devoured
his children? It is substantially with this second question that the
following work has to do. It is a treatise concerning the character
of God. The subjects discussed have been for many years the occasion of much
controversy and difficulty. Whilst to certain minds it were more
agreeable to read exposition of Christian truth, yet the followers
of Christ may often have to contend for the faith once delivered to
the saints. Our Lord's public ministry showed how earnestly He
contended for the truth. At every corner He was met by the men of
"light and leading" amongst the Jews, and who did their best to
oppose Him. Paul, too, when he lived at Ephesus, disputed "daily in
the school of one Tyrannus, and this continued by the space of two
years." The period of the Reformation was also one of earnest
discussion between the adherents of the old faith and the followers
of Luther. The questions discussed in those days, both in apostolic
and post apostolic times, were eminently practical; but they were
not a whit more so than the questions of Predestination,
Reprobation, and Election. These touch every man to the very centre
of his being when he awakes from the sleep of indifference, and
wishes to know the truth about the salvation of his soul. It has
been our object, in the present volume, to dispel the darkness which
has been thrown around those subjects, and to let every man see that
the way back to the bosom of the heavenly Father is as free to him
as the light of heaven. The following treatise consists of an Introduction bearing on the
history of the questions discussed; Part I. treats of Predestination;
Part II. is on Reprobation, and Part III. on Election.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION.
PART I. PREDESTINATION.
CHAPTER I. THE WORD PREDESTINATION, AND THE DOCTRINE AS HELD BY CALVINISTS. CHAPTER II. CALVINISTIC PREDESTINATION IN REFERENCE TO DIVINE WISDOM. CHAPTER III. THE DOCTRINE OF PREDESTINATION CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO ALMIGHTY
POWER. CHAPTER IV. PREDESTINATION CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO DIVINE FOREKNOWLEDGE. CHAPTER V. PROOF TEXTS FOR CALVINISTIC PREDESTINATION EXAMINED. CHAPTER VI. OBJECTIONS TO CALVINISTIC PREDESTINATION. CHAPTER VII. GENERAL SUMMARY OF THE DOCTRINE... Continue reading book >>
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