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Systematic Theology

Volume 3

By Rev. Charles G. Finney

	Title Page
	Preface
LECTURE 45 VARIOUS CLASSES OF TRUTHS.
	Enumerated and elucidated
LECTURE 46 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 47 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 48 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 49 GRACIOUS ABILITY.
	What is intended by the term This doctrine as held an absurdity In what sense a gracious ability is possible
LECTURE 50 THE NOTION OF INABILITY.
	Proper mode of accounting for it
LECTURE 51 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 52 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 53 JUSTIFICATION.
	What justification is not What it is Conditions of gospel justification
LECTURE 54 SANCTIFICATION.
	An account of the recent discussions that have been had on this subject
LECTURE 55 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 56 SANCTIFICATION.
	Entire sanctification is attainable in this life
LECTURE 57 SANCTIFICATION.
	Bible Argument
LECTURE 58 SANCTIFICATION.
	Paul entirely sanctified
LECTURE 59 SANCTIFICATION.
	Condition of its attainment
LECTURE 60 SANCTIFICATION.
	Condition of its attainment, continued Relations of Christ to the believer
LECTURE 61 SANCTIFICATION.
	Relations of Christ to the believer, continued
LECTURE 62 SANCTIFICATION.
	Relations of Christ to the believer, continued
LECTURE 63 SANCTIFICATION.
	Relations of Christ to the believer, continued
LECTURE 64 SANCTIFICATION.
	Relations of Christ to the believer, continued
LECTURE 65 SANCTIFICATION.
	Objections answered
LECTURE 66 SANCTIFICATION.
	Tendency of the denial that Christians have valid grounds of hope that they shall obtain a victory over sin in this life
LECTURE 67 SANCTIFICATION.
	Objections, continued
LECTURE 68 SANCTIFICATION.
	Objections, continued
LECTURE 69 SANCTIFICATION.
	Objections, continued
LECTURE 70 SANCTIFICATION.
	Remarks
LECTURE 71 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 72 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 73 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 74 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 75 PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS.
	Notice the different kinds of certainty What is not intended by the perseverance of the saints.
LECTURE 76 PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS.
	Objections answered
LECTURE 77 PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS.
	Further objections considered.
LECTURE 78 PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS.
	Consideration of the principal arguments in support of the doctrine
LECTURE 79 PERSEVERANCE OF SAINTS.
	Perseverance proved

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