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Title Page |
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Preface |
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LECTURE 1 Moral
government |
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Definition of the term
Law -- Distinction between Physical and Moral Law -- The
essential Attributes of Moral Law -- Liberty as opposed
to Necessity -- Adaptability, or Adaptation --
Universality -- Uniformity -- Impartiality -- Justice --
Practicability -- Independence -- Immutability -- Unity
-- Equity -- Expediency -- Exclusiveness -- Utility |
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LECTURE 2 Moral
Government--Continued |
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Definition
of the term Government -- Distinction between moral and
physical government -- The fundamental reason of Moral
Government -- Whose right it is to govern -- What is
implied in the right to govern -- Point out the limits
of this right -- What is implied in Moral Government --
Definition of Moral Obligation -- The conditions of
Moral Obligation -- Remarks |
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LECTURE 3 Moral
Government--Continued |
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Man a subject of Moral
Obligation -- Extent of Moral Obligation -- Shown by an
appeal to reason, or to natural theology, to what acts
and states of mind moral obligation cannot directly
extend -- Shown to what acts and states of mind Moral
Obligation must directly extend -- To what acts and
mental states Moral Obligation indirectly extends |
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LECTURE 4 Foundation
of Moral Obligation |
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Definition of Moral
Obligation repeated -- Attention called again to the
conditions of Moral Obligation -- What is intended by
the foundation of moral obligation -- The extent of
moral obligation -- Points of agreement among the
principal parties in this discussion --Wherein parties
differ -- Shown from reason and revelation what must be
the foundation of moral obligation -- Shown wherein that
consists which constitutes the true foundation of moral
obligation; in other words, in what the highest
well-being or ultimate good of sentient beings consists
-- The ultimate and absolute good must belong to being,
or to sentient existences -- With moral agents at least
the ultimate good must consist in a state of mind -- The
ultimate and absolute good in the sense of the
intrinsically valuable, cannot be identical with Moral
Law --Obedience, or the course of acting or willing
required by the law, cannot be the ultimate end aimed at
by the law or the lawgiver -- The absolute and ultimate
good of being cannot consist in moral worth or good
desert -- Right Character, moral worth, good desert,
meritoriousness, or whatever you call it, cannot be or
consist in a state of mind -- The ultimate or absolute
good cannot consist in anything external to mind itself
-- Objections to this philosophy considered |
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LECTURE 5
Foundation of Moral Obligation--False Theories |
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That the sovereign will
of God is the foundation of Moral Obligation -- The
theory of Paley -- The utilitarian philosophy |
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LECTURE 6 Foundation
of Moral Obligation--False Theories |
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The theory that regards
right as the foundation of moral obligation |
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LECTURE 7
Foundation
of Moral Obligation--False Theories |
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The theory that the
goodness or moral excellence of God is the foundation of
moral obligation |
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LECTURE 8 Foundation
of Moral Obligation--False Theories |
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The Philosophy which
teaches that moral order is the foundation of moral
obligation -- The theory that maintains that the nature
and relations of moral beings is the true foundation of
moral obligation -- The theory that teaches that moral
obligation is founded in the idea of duty -- That
philosophy which teaches the complexity of the
foundation of moral obligation -- Another form of the
theory that affirms the complexity of the foundation of
moral obligation; complex, however, only in a certain
sense |
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LECTURE 9 Foundation
of Moral Obligation--Practical Bearings of the Different
Theories |
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The theory that regards
the sovereign will of God as the foundation of moral
obligation -- The theory of the selfish school -- The
natural and necessary results of utilitarianism |
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LECTURE 10
Foundation
of Moral Obligation--Practical Bearings of the Different
Theories--Continued |
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Practical bearings and
tendency of Rightarianism -- The philosophy which
teaches that the divine goodness or moral excellence is
the foundation of moral obligation -- The theory which
teaches that moral order is the foundation of moral
obligation -- The practical bearings of the theory that
moral obligation is founded in the nature and relations
of moral agents -- The theory which teaches that the
idea of duty is the foundation of moral obligation --
The complexity of the foundation of moral obligation --
The practical bearings of what is regarded as the true
theory of the foundation of moral obligation, namely
that the highest well-being of God and of the universe
is the sole foundation of moral obligation |
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LECTURE 11
Moral
Government--Continued |
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What constitutes
obedience to moral law -- Obedience cannot be partial in
the sense that the subject ever does or can partly obey
and partly disobey at the same time -- Can the will at
the same time make opposite choices? -- The choice of an
ultimate end is, and must be, the supreme preference of
the mind -- An intelligent choice must respect ends or
means -- No choice whatever can be made inconsistent
with the present choice of an ultimate end -- Inquiry
respecting the strength or intensity of the choice --
The law does not require the constant and most intense
action of the will -- An intention cannot be right and
honest in kind and deficient in the degree of intensity
-- Examination of the philosophy of the question whether
sin and holiness consist in supreme ultimate and
opposite choices or intentions -- Objections to the
foregoing philosophy considered -- This philosophy
examined in the light of the Scriptures |
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LECTURE 12
Moral
Government--Continued |
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In what sense we have
seen that obedience to moral law cannot be partial -- In
what sense obedience to moral law can be partial -- The
government of God accepts nothing as virtue but
obedience to the law of God -- There can be no rule of
duty but moral law -- Nothing can be virtue or true
religion but obedience to the moral law -- Nothing can
be virtue that is not just what the moral law demands.
That is, nothing short of what it requires can be in any
sense virtue -- Uses of the term Justification --
Fundamentally important inquiries respecting this
subject -- Remarks |
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LECTURE 13 Moral
Government--Continued |
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What constitutes
obedience to moral law--Just rules of legal
interpretation--That actual knowledge is indispensable
to moral obligation shown from scripture--In the light
of the above rules inquire what is not implied in entire
obedience to the law of God |
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LECTURE 14 Moral
Government--Continued |
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Call attention to
certain facts in mental philosophy as they are revealed
in consciousness--Point out the attributes of that love
which constitutes obedience to the law of
God--Voluntariness--Liberty--Intelligence--Virtuousness--Disinterestedness--Impartiality--Universality |
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LECTURE 15 Attributes
of Love |
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Efficiency--Penitence--Faith--Complacency |
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LECTURE 16 Attributes
of Love--Continued |
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Opposition--Compassion |
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LECTURE 17 Attributes
of Love--Continued |
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Mercy--Justice--Truth or
truthfulness |
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LECTURE 18 Attributes
of Love--Continued |
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Patience -- Meekness --
Long-suffering -- Humility |
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LECTURE
19 Attributes of Love--Continued |
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Self-Denial--Condescension--Candor--Stability--Kindness--Severity |
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LECTURE
20 Attributes of Love--Continued |
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Holiness, or Purity
--Modesty --Sobriety --Sincerity --Zeal --Unity
--Simplicity |
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LECTURE
21 Attributes of Love--Continued |
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Gratitude --Wisdom
--Economy |
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LECTURE
22 Moral Government |
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Revert to some points
that have been settled --Show what disobedience to moral
law cannot consist in --What disobedience to moral law
must consist in |
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LECTURE
23 Moral Government |
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What constitutes
disobedience --What is not implied in disobedience to
the law of God |
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LECTURE
24 Attributes of Selfishness |
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What constitutes
disobedience to moral law --What is implied in
disobedience to moral law
Attributes of selfishness - Voluntariness --Liberty
--Intelligence --Unreasonableness --Interestedness
--Partiality --Impenitence --Unbelief |
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LECTURE
25 Attributes of Selfishness--Continued |
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Efficiency --Opposition
to benevolence or to virtue --Cruelty --Unreasonableness
--Injustice |
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LECTURE
26 Attributes of Selfishness-Continued |
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Oppression --War --Unmercifulness
--Falsehood or lying--Pride |
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LECTURE
27 Attributes of Selfishness--Continued |
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Enmity--Madness--Impatience--Intemperance--Recklessness--Unity |
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LECTURE
28 Attributes of Selfishness--Continued |
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Egotism--Simplicity--Total Moral Depravity implied in
selfishness as one of its attributes--The scriptures
assume and affirm it--Remarks |
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LECTURE
29 Moral Government |
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Obedience to Moral Law
is and must be, under every dispensation of the Divine
Government the unalterable condition of Salvation--Under
a gracious dispensation, a return to full obedience to
Moral Law is not dispensed with as a condition of
Salvation, but this obedience is secured by the
indwelling spirit of Christ received by faith to reign
in the heart |
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LECTURE
30 Moral Government |
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What constitutes the
sanctions of law--There can be no law without
sanctions--In what light sanctions are to be
regarded--The end to be secured by law, and the
execution of penal sanctions--By what rule sanctions
ought to be graduated--God's law has sanctions --What
constitutes the remuneratory sanctions of the law of
God--The perfection and duration of the remuneratory
sanctions of the law of God--What constitutes the
vindicatory sanctions of the law of God--Duration of the
penal sanctions of the law of God--Inquire into the
meaning of the term Infinite--Infinities may differ
indefinitely in amount--I must remind you of the rule by
which degrees of guilt are to be estimated--That all and
every sin must from its very nature involve infinite
guilt in the sense of deserving endless
punishment--Notwithstanding all sin deserves endless
punishment, yet the guilt of different persons may vary
indefinitely, and punishment, although always endless in
duration, may and ought to vary in degree according to
the guilt of each individual--That penal inflictions
under the government of God must be endless--Examine
this question in the light of Revelation |
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LECTURE
31 Atonement |
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I will call attention to
several well established governmental principles--Define
the term Atonement--I am to inquire into the teachings
of natural theology, or into the a priori affirmations
of reason upon this subject--The fact of Atonement--The
design of the Atonement--Christ's obedience to the moral
law as a covenant of works, did not constitute the
Atonement--The atonement was not a commercial
transaction--The atonement of Christ was intended as a
satisfaction of public justice--His taking human nature,
and obeying unto death, under such circumstances,
constituted a good reason for our being treated as
righteous |
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LECTURE
32 Extent of Atonement |
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For whose benefit the
Atonement was intended--Objections answered --Remarks on
the Atonement |
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LECTURE
33 Human Government |
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The ultimate end of God
in creation--Providential and Moral Governments are
indispensable means of securing the highest good of the
universe--Civil and family governments are indispensable
to the securing of this end, and are therefore really a
part of the Providential and moral government of
God--Human Governments are a necessity of human
nature--This necessity will continue as long as human
beings exist in this world--Human Governments are
plainly recognized in the Bible as a part of the moral
government of God--It is the duty of all men to aid in
the establishment and support of Human Government--It is
absurd to suppose that human governments can ever be
dispensed with in the present world--Objections
answered--Inquire into the foundation of the right of
human governments--Point out the limits or boundary of
this right |
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LECTURE
34 Human Governments--Continued |
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The reasons why God has
made no form of Church or Civil Government universally
obligatory--The particular forms of Church and State
Government, must and will depend upon virtue and
intelligence of the people--That form of Government is
obligatory, that is best suited to meet the necessities
of the people--Revolutions become necessary and
obligatory, when the virtue and intelligence or the vice
and ignorance of the people demand them--In what cases
human legislation is valid, and in what cases it is null
and void--In what cases we are bound to disobey human
governments--Apply the foregoing principles to the
rights and duties of governments and subjects in
relation to the execution of the necessary penalties of
law |
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LECTURE
35 Moral Depravity |
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Definition of the term
Depravity--Point out the distinction between physical
and moral depravity--Of what physical depravity can be
predicated--Of what moral depravity can be
predicated--Mankind are both physically and morally
depraved--Subsequent to the commencement of moral agency
and previous to regeneration the moral depravity of
mankind is universal--The moral depravity of the
unregenerate moral agents of our race, is total |
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LECTURE
36 Moral Depravity--Continued |
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Proper method of
accounting for the universal and total moral depravity
of the unregenerate moral agents of our race--Moral
depravity consists in selfishness, or in the choice of
self-interest, self-gratification, or self-indulgence,
as an end--Dr. Wood's view of Physical and Moral
Depravity examined--Standards of the Presbyterian Church
examined |
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LECTURE
37 Moral Depravity--Continued |
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Further examination of
the arguments adduced in support of the position that
human nature is in itself sinful |
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LECTURE
38 Moral Depravity--Continued |
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The Proper Method of
Accounting for Moral Depravity--Prest. Edwards views
examined--Summary of the Truth on this subject--Remarks |
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LECTURE
39 Regeneration |
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The common distinction
between Regeneration and Conversion--I am to state the
assigned reasons for this distinction--I am to state the
objections to this distinctions--What regeneration is
not--What regeneration is--The universal necessity of
regeneration--Agencies employed in
regeneration--Instrumentalities employed in the work--In
regeneration the subject is both passive and
active--What is implied in regeneration |
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LECTURE
40 Regeneration--Continued |
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Philosophical theories
of regeneration--The different theories of Regeneration
examined--Objections to the Taste Scheme--The
Susceptibility Scheme--Theory of a Divine Moral
Suasion--Objections to this theory--Remarks |
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LECTURE
41 Regeneration--Continued |
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Evidences of
Regeneration--Introductory Remarks--Wherein the
experience and outward life of saints and sinners may
agree--Remarks |
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LECTURE
42 Regeneration--Continued |
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Wherein Saints and
Sinners or Deceived Professors must differ |
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LECTURE
43 Regeneration--Continued |
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In what Saints and
Sinners differ--What is it to overcome the world--Who
are those that overcome the world--Why do believers
overcome the world |
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LECTURE
44 Regeneration--Continued |
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Wherein Saints and
Sinners differ |
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