Sinner, the incorrigible, glorifies God in his destruction, 442
negatively described, 637, 638
positively described, 639
what he can do, 640
what he cannot do, 640
under conviction, more of a sinner than before, 827
has no right to do anything before accepting Christ, 868
“Six hundred
sixty-six,”, 570
Society, atomistic theory of, 623
Society, bellum omnium contra omnes
(Hobbes), 461
Socinianism, 47, 328, 329, 524, 558, 597, 728-733
Sola fides justificat, sed fides non est
sola, 758
“Son,”
its import in Trinity, 334
Son, the, a perfect object of will, knowledge and love to God,
275, 388
his eternal generation, 341
uncreate, 341
his essence not derived from essence of the Father, 341
his existence eternal, 341
exists by internal necessity of Divine nature, 342
eternal generation of, a life movement of the Divine nature,
342
in person subordinate to person of Father, 342
in essence equal with Father, 342
Son of man, cannotes, among other things, a veritable humanity,
673
Song of Solomon, 233, 238
Sonship of Christ, eternal, 340
metaphysical, 340
authors on, 343
Soul, what?, 92
dichotomous view of, 483
trichotomous view of, 484
distinguished from spirit, 484
its origin, 488
its pre-existence, according to poets, 489
creatian theory of, 491
not something added from without, 492
introduced into body, sicut vinum in vase acetoso,
493
metaphysical generation of, 493
traducian theory of, 494-497
history of theory, 493, 494
observations favorable to, 494-497
image of God, proprie, 528
always active, though not always conscious, 550
may influence another soul apart from physical intermediaries,
820
not inaccessible to God's direct operation, 820
as uncompounded cannot die, 984
“Sovereign,
the,” a title of Messiah, 321
Species, 392, 480-482, 494
Spirit, the Holy, his teaching, a necessity, 27
hides himself, 213
recognized as God, 315
divine characteristics and prerogatives ascribed to, 316
associated with God, 316
his deity supported by Christian experience, 316
his deity, a doctrine of the church, 316
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the Holy, his deity not disproved by O. T. limitations, 317
his deity, authors on, 317
is a person, 323
designations of personality given to him, 323
“the
mother-principle” in the Godhead, 323
so mentioned with other persons as to imply personality, 323,
324
performs acts of personality, 324
affected by acts of others, 324
possesses an emotional nature, 325
visibly appears as distinct from, yet connected with Father and
Son, 325
ascription to him, of personal subsistence, 325
import of his presence in Trinity, 334
the centripetal movement of Deity, 336
and Christ, differences in their work, 338-340
his nature and work, authors on, 340
his eternal procession, 340-343
if not God, God could not be appropriated, 349
a work of completing belongs to, 313
applies Scriptural truth to present circumstances, 440
directs the God-man in his humiliation, 696
his intercession, 774, 775
his intermediacy, 793
witness of, what?, 844, 845
doctrine of “sealing” distinguished from
mysticism, 845
in believer, substitutes old excitements, 872
“Spirit” and “soul,”, 843
Spirit, how applied to Christ, 333
Spirits, evil, tempt, 455
control natural phenomena, 455
execute God's plans, 457
not independent of human will, 457, 458
restrained by permissive will of God, 458
exist and act on sufferance, 459
their existence not inconsistent with benevolence of God, 461
are organized, 461
the doctrine of, not immoral, 461, 462
doctrine of, not degrading, 462
their nature and actions illustrate the evil of sin, 463
knowledge of their existence inspires a salutary fear, 463
sense of their power drives to Christ, 463
contrasting their unsaved state with our spiritual advantages
causes us to magnify grace of God, 463
“Spirits in
prison,”, 707, 708
Spiritual body, 1016, 1017
Spontaneous generation, 389
Substance, known, 5
its characteristics, 6
a direct knowledge of it as underlying phenomena, 97
Substances, the theory of two eternal, 378-383
Substantia una et unica, 86
Suffering, in itself not reformatory, 104
“Sunday,” used by Justin Martyr, 148
Supererogation, works of, 522
Supper, the Lord's, a historical monument, 157
its ritual and import, 959
instituted by Christ, 959, 960
its mode of administration, 960-962
its elements, 960
its communion of both kinds, 960
is of a festal nature, 960, 961
commemorative, 961
celebrated by assembled church, 961
responsibility of its proper observance rests with pastor as
representative of church, 962
its frequency discretional, 962
it symbolizes personal appropriation of the benefits of
Christ's death, 963
it symbolizes union with Christ, 963
it symbolizes dependence on Christ, 963
it symbolizes a reproduction of death and resurrection in
believer, 963
it symbolizes union in Christ, 963
it symbolizes the coming joy and perfection of the kingdom of
God, 963
its connection with baptism, 964
is to be often repeated, 964
implies a previous state of grace, 964
the blessing conveyed in communion depends on communicant, 964
expresses fellowship of believer, 964
the Romanist view of, 965-968
the Lutheran and High Church view of, 968, 969
there are prerequisites, 969, 970
prerequisites laid down by Christ, 970
regeneration, a prerequisite to, 971
baptism, a prerequisite to, 971-973
church membership, a prerequisite to, 973
an orderly walk, a prerequisite to, 973-975
the local church the judge as to the fulfilment of these
prerequisites, 975-977
special objections to open communion presented, 977-980
Symbol, derivation and meaning, 42
less than thing symbolized, 1035
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Synoptic gospels, date, 150
“Synthetic
idealization of our existence,”, 568
Synthetic method in theology, 50
System of theology, a dissected map, some parts of which
already put together, 15
Systematic theologian, the first, 44
Systematic truth influences character, 16
Tabula rasa theory, of
Locke, 35
Talmud shows what the unaided genius for religion could
produce, 115
“Teaching,
the, of the Twelve Apostles,”, 159, 937, 953
Teleological argument for the existence of God, 75-80
statement of argument, 75
called also “physico-theological,”, 75
divided by some into eutaxiology and teleology proper, 75
the major premise is a primitive and immovable conviction, 75
the minor premise, a working principle of science, 77
it does not prove a personal God, 78, 79
it does not prove unity, eternity, or infinity of God, 79, 80
adds intelligence and volition to the causative power already
proved to exist, 80
Temptation, prevented by God's providence, 423
does not pervert, but confirms, the holy soul, 588, 589
Adam's, Scriptural account of, 582, 583
Adam's, its course and result, 584, 585
Adam's, contrasted with Christ's, 677, 678
Christ's, as possible as that of Adam, 677
aided by limitations of his human intelligence, 677
aided by his susceptibility to all forms of innocent
gratification, 677
in wilderness, addressed to desire, 677
in Gethsemane, to fear, 677
Ueberglaube, Aberglaube,
Unglaube, appealed to, 677
is always “without sin,”, 677
authors upon, 678
by Satan, negative and positive, 455
Tempter's promise, the, 572
Tendency-theory of Baur, 157-160
Tendency, undeveloped, 847
Terminology, a, needed in progress of a science, 35
Testament New, genuineness of, 146-165
rationalistic theories to explain origin of its gospels,
155-165
its moral system, 177-186
its morality contrasted with that of heathenism, 179-186
Testament, Old, in what sense its works are genuine, 162
how proved, 165-175
alleged errors in quoting or interpreting, 234, 235
Testimony, science assumes faith in, 3
amount of, necessary to prove miracle, 127, 128
in general, 142-144
statements in, may conflict without being false, 227
Tests, does God submit to?, 437
Theologian, characteristics of, 38-41
Theological Encyclopædia, 42
Theology, its definition, 1, 2
its aim, 2
its possibility, 2-15
its necessity, 15-19
its relation to religion, 19-24
rests on God's self-revelation, 25
rests on his revelation in nature, 26
natural and Scriptural, how related, 26-29
rests on Scripture and reason, 29
rationalism hurtful to, 30-31
rests on Scripture and a true mysticism, 31
avoids a false mysticism, 32
accepts history of doctrine as ancillary, 33
declines the combination, Scripture and Romanism, 33, 34
its limitations, 34-36
a perfect system of, impossible, 36, 37
is progressive, 37
its method, 38-51
requisites to its study, 38-41
divisions of, 41-44
Biblical, 41
historical, 41
systematic, 41, 42
practical, 42-44
Theology, Systematic, its history, 44
in Eastern church, 44
in Western Church, 44-46
its period of scholasticism, 44, 45
its period of symbolism, 45, 46
its period of criticism and speculation, 46
a list of authorities in, differing from Protestantism, 47
British theology, 47, 48
Baptist theologians, 47
Puritan theologians, 47, 48
Scotch Presbyterian theologians, 48
Methodist theologians, 48
Quaker theologians, 48
English Church theologians, 48
American theology, 48, 49
the Reformed system, 48, 49
the older Calvinism, 49
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order in which its subjects may be treated, 49, 50
analytic method in, 49, 50
synthetic method in, 50
text-books in, 50, 51
Theophany, Christ not a mere, 686
Thought, does not go on in the brain, 93
possible without language, 216
intermittent or continuous?, 1002
Three thousand baptized in one day in time of Chrysostom, 934
Thucydides never mentions Socrates, 144
Time, its definition, 276
God not under law of, 276
has objective reality to God, 276
his “one
eternal now,” how to be understood, 277
can the human spirit escape the conditions of, 278
authors on “time” and “eternity,”, 278
Torments of wicked, outward, subordinate results and
accompaniments of state of soul, 1034
Tradition, and idea of God, 63
cannot long be trusted to give correct evidence, 142
of a “golden
age” and matters cognate, 480, 526
Traducianism, its advocates and teaching, 493, 494
best accords with Scripture, 494, 495
favored by analogy of vegetable and animal life, 496
heredities, mental, spiritual, and moral, prove men's souls of
human ancestry, 496
does not exclude divine concurrence in the development of the
human species, 496
Fathers, who held, 620