Daemonologie by King James

 

King James I of England, famous for commissioning the King James Version of the Bible, also authored a book titled Daemonologie, first published in 1597. This work provides insights into his views on demonology, witchcraft, and the supernatural. Daemonologie reflects a strong belief in the existence of demons, witches, and spirits and outlines the dangers he believed they posed to society. King James structured the book as a three-part dialogue, aiming to educate readers on identifying and understanding the activities of witches and demons and the methods used to combat them.

Here are the major topics Daemonologie covers:

1. The Existence and Nature of Demons

• King James argues that demons and witches are real, manifesting in various forms to deceive and harm humans. He describes how demons work under Satan’s influence and seek to manipulate people by preying on their fears and weaknesses.

2. Witchcraft and Witch Trials

• King James details common practices he associated with witchcraft, including charms, spells, and curses, which he saw as threats to Christian society. The book justifies the need for witch trials, arguing that those found guilty should be punished, often by execution. It reflects the prevalent view of witchcraft as heresy, a crime against both the state and the Church.

3. Divination and Necromancy

• King James discusses different forms of divination and necromancy, categorizing them as dangerous practices that open doors to demonic influences. He addresses various practices, like the invocation of spirits and communication with the dead, viewing them as affronts to God’s sovereignty.

4. Exorcism and Prevention

• The final sections offer methods to protect against and resist demons and witches. King James emphasizes reliance on prayer, the scriptures, and adherence to Christian faith as defenses against demonic influence. He advocates for a strict, righteous lifestyle to avoid falling prey to spiritual manipulation.

King James’ Daemonologie had a lasting influence on attitudes toward witchcraft, both in Britain and its American colonies, notably impacting the Salem Witch Trials decades later. While it was written from a place of sincere belief, modern readers often see it as a fascinating historical text that highlights the era’s fears and misconceptions about the supernatural.

King James’s views on demonology and witchcraft, as detailed in Daemonologie, were shaped by several key influences, including personal experiences, religious beliefs, and the political climate of his time. Here are the main factors that inspired his views:

1. Personal Experiences and Encounters with Witchcraft

• One of the most notable experiences that shaped James's views on witchcraft was his encounter with supposed witches during the North Berwick witch trials in Scotland (1590–1592). These trials were triggered by allegations of a conspiracy by witches to create a storm that would prevent James and his new bride, Anne of Denmark, from returning to Scotland. James himself took part in some interrogations and saw these events as a direct attack on his life, which cemented his belief in the dangers of witchcraft.

2. Religious Convictions

• King James was a devout Christian with strong Calvinist leanings, which influenced his belief that Satan was actively working against God's kingdom on Earth. His understanding of witchcraft was rooted in biblical teachings, which he interpreted as condemning witchcraft and idolatry as evil practices that violated divine law. Passages from the Old Testament, like Exodus 22:18 ("Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live") and Leviticus 20:27, which prescribed death for sorcery, were particularly influential.

3. Influence of Continental Europe

• During James's time, Europe was deeply engrossed in witch hunts and demonological studies. Works like Heinrich Kramer’s Malleus Maleficarum (1487) and other demonology texts had been widely circulated, contributing to a general climate of fear and suspicion surrounding witchcraft. James was familiar with these works, and they provided a framework for understanding and combating witchcraft that aligned with his beliefs.

4. Political and Social Concerns

• Witchcraft was seen not just as a religious issue but as a political threat. In a time when rulers were believed to rule by divine right, challenges to the monarchy were viewed as offenses against God. Witchcraft, with its associations with subversion and rebellion, was thus seen as a threat to social and political stability. James viewed it as part of a larger battle between good and evil and saw his role in eradicating it as a moral duty to preserve both the kingdom and the Church.

5. Intellectual Curiosity and the Pursuit of Knowledge

• James was an intellectual and a prolific writer who valued learning. His fascination with supernatural subjects, such as magic, spirits, and the occult, reflected broader Renaissance interests in the metaphysical and spiritual realms. Writing Daemonologie was an expression of this intellectual curiosity, as well as an attempt to educate his subjects on a topic he believed was crucial to their well-being and moral integrity.

Together, these influences made Daemonologie both a product of its time and a powerful reflection of James’s personal beliefs, effectively intertwining the supernatural with political, religious, and social concerns of the era.

 

First 7 Weeks of Daniel’s 70 Weeks

Earth’s Sacred Calendar: The Dated Events of the Old Testament-2nd Edition With KJV Literal Translation

TWENTY-EIGHT

First Seven Weeks of Daniel’s 70 Weeks Prophecy Begins 4th Day of Rebuilding Jerusalem Wall Until the End of Book of Malachi

Mon. July 21 – Av 7, 455 BC to Wed. October 30 – Heshvan 10, 406 BC

49 Years and 101 Days.  All 15 Events in Daniel, Nehemiah, & Malachi

Daniel 9:25

The first 7 Weeks of Daniel’s 70 Weeks Prophecy Begins on Day #4 of Wall Rebuilding in Jerusalem. This July 21–Av 7 date in 455 BC is Day #4 of the rebuilding of the Wall around Jerusalem and is the start of Daniel’s 70 Weeks prophecy found in Daniel Chapter 9.  The Author could find no other Bible commentary with an exact date starting in September of 455 BC that matched the 483 years of Daniel’s 70 Weeks ending in the Passover Crucifixion of Jesus in 30 AD. The fourth day of the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Wall marks the start of the first Seven Weeks of Daniel’s 70 Weeks prophecy. This forty-nine year period covers the rebuilding of Jerusalem after the 70 years of Babylonian Exile are ‘completed’, a total of 71 years (Jeremiah 25:11-12). Four hundred and fifty  years plus ninety days from this date is Sunday, October 20, 5 BC.  This calculated date is marks the birth of Jesus and is exactly 4,096 solar years from Day #7 of Creation in 4,101 BC on the Gregorian-Hebrew solar calendar. According to Scripture and the calculations of this research, there are 4,096 solar years from Creation Week until the birth of Jesus. This July 21–Av 7 date also marks “seventy completed years” (Jeremiah 25:11-12) from the time the Temple starts burning in 526 BC, according to 2 Kings 25:8-9.

Type of Dated Event: DIS BR Calendar Day Number: 278 BR Years from Creation: 3659 BR: Monday, July 21 — Av 7, 455 BC GH: Monday, February 16 — Shevat 27, 453 BC Julian Day Number: 1556015.75

Nehemiah 6:15

The Jerusalem Wall is Completed in 52 Days

Exactly 480 years from this date in 26 AD, it is calculated that Jesus walks down to the Jordon River and is baptized by John the Baptist. In 26 AD, this Elul 25 date precedes the Wilderness Temptations of Jesus and is 42 days before His 30th birthday in the 15th year of Tiberius.

Type of Dated Event: DIS BR Calendar Day Number: 326 BR Years from Creation: 3659 BR: Sunday, September 8 — Elul 25, 455 BC GH: Sunday, April 4 — Nisan 15, 453 BC Julian Day Number: 1556063.75

Nehemiah 8:1-12

Ezra Reads The Law From Morning to Midday

This is a very important occasion in the history of Israel. The first day of Tishri is designated as the Feast of Trumpets according to Leviticus 23:23-25. Leviticus makes it clear that this is a Sabbath-rest and no work is to be done. Leviticus 23:32 makes it clear that this day is a Friday since Tishri 10 falls on a Sunday and is the Day of Atonement. This means that two days in a row are to be treated as a Saturday Sabbath. Deuteronomy 31:10-13 requires that there is to be a reading from the Law every seven years. This was the first time since the Exile that this law regarding the Feasts had been followed. The people stood from morning to midday, about three to four hours. During this reading, the Scribes and Levites on the platform explained the meaning of the text.

The footnotes in the MacArthur Study Bible for Nehemiah 8:1, and most commentaries of this type, date this event around 445 BC instead of 455 BC. The reasoning is that Ezra had arrived in Jerusalem thirteen years earlier, in 458 BC, in the seventh year of the reign of King Artaxerxes (Ezra 7:8). This was now the twentieth year of his reign. This is the first mention of Ezra in the Book of Nehemiah.

As previously mentioned in the commentary for Haggai 1:12-15 and Ezra 5:1-2, the mention of the presence of Jeshua in 8:7 raises a serious Bible chronology problem. Is this the same Jeshua who attended the Dedication Ceremony in 520 BC which occurred four years before the Temple was completed according to almost every major Old Testament Study Bible and commentary? The Temple was completed on Adar 3 according to Ezra 6:15 in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius. The year was 516 to 515 BC according to other Bible chronologies. Adar is the month prior to the month of Nisan. On the first day of the month of Nisan, Ezra leaves Babylon and arrives four months later, according to Ezra 7:7-9. It appears from the text that Ezra left the month after the Temple was completed. Current Bible chronology inserts fifty-seven years between the completion of the Temple (515 BC to 516 BC) and the return of Ezra in the year 458 BC. No explanation from Scripture, or any other source, could be found by the author of this research for this insertion of over fifty-seven years into the Biblical text.

Type of Dated Event: DIS BR Calendar Day Number: 331 BR Years from Creation: 3659 BR: Friday, September 13 — Tishri 1, 455 BC GH: Friday, April 9 — Nisan 20, 453 BC Julian Day Number: 1556068.75

Nehemiah 8:13-14

The Law of Feast of Tabernacles Is Discovered

Type of Dated Event: DIS BR Calendar Day Number: 332 BR Years from Creation: 3659 BR: Saturday, September 14 — Tishri 2, 455 BC GH: Saturday, April 10 — Nisan 21, 453 BC Julian Day Number: 1556069.75

Nehemiah 8:15-18

Israel Celebrates Feast of Tabernacles Tishri 15-22

This is the first day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Booths).

Type of Dated Event: Feast Date BR Calendar Day Number: 345 BR Years from Creation: 3659 BR: Friday, September 27 — Tishri 15, 455 BC GH: Friday, April 23 — Iyar 4, 453 BC Julian Day Number: 1556082.75

Nehemiah 8:18

A Sacred Assembly Held on Eighth Day of Feast

This is the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles (Booths).

Type of Dated Event: Feast Date BR Calendar Day Number: 352 BR Years from Creation: 3659 BR: Friday, October 4 — Tishri 22, 455 BC GH: Friday, April 30 — Iyar 11, 453 BC Julian Day Number: 1556089.75

Nehemiah 9:1-38

The People Confess Their Sin of foreign wives

On this day men also separated from their foreign wives. This had been done thirteen years earlier with Ezra, according to Ezra 10.

Type of Dated Event: DIS BR Calendar Day Number: 354 BR Years from Creation: 3659 BR: Sunday, October 6 — Tishri 24, 455 BC GH: Sunday, May 2 — Iyar 13, 453 BC Julian Day Number: 1556091.75

Nehemiah 5:14

The End of Nehemiah’s Time as Governor

This marks the thirty-second DFC year of Artaxerxes and the end of Nehemiah’s twelve years as Governor.

Type of Dated Event: DFC BR Calendar Day Number: 6 BR Years from Creation: 3672 BR: Tuesday, October 22 — Heshvan 2, 443 BC GH: Tuesday, May 3 — Iyar 14, 441 BC Julian Day Number: 1560475.75

Calculated Date From History and Scripture

The End of the 51 Year Reign of Artaxerxes

The accurate dating of the end of the reign of Artaxerxes is critical to dating the events at the end of the Babylonian Exile and Daniel’s 70 Weeks prophecy.

Type of Dated Event: Extra-Biblical BR Calendar Day Number: 70 BR Years from Creation: 3691 BR: Wednesday, December 25 — Tevet 6, 424 BC GH: Wednesday, June 13 — Sivan 24, 422 BC Julian Day Number: 1567455.75

Calculated Date From History and Scripture

Darius the Persian Begins Reign

Darius the Persian, also known as Darius Ochus, reigns from the end of January in 423 BC until 404 BC, according to extra-Biblical sources.

Type of Dated Event: Extra-Biblical BR Calendar Day Number: 115 BR Years from Creation: 3691 BR: Saturday, February 10 — Shevat 22, 423 BC GH: Saturday, July 28 — Av 10, 422 BC Julian Day Number: 1567500.75

Nehemiah 12:22

Levite Records Kept During Reign Darius the Persian

During the Reign of Darius the Persian, the last records of the priests were kept. The Persian Empire seems to have gone into decline as a world power after this period in history.

Type of Dated Event: Extra-Biblical BR Calendar Day Number: 115 BR Years from Creation: 3691 BR: Saturday, February 10 — Shevat 22, 423 BC GH: Saturday, July 28 — Av 10, 422 BC Julian Day Number: 1567500.75

Daniel 9:25

End First Seven Weeks of Daniel’s 70 Weeks Prophecy

The restoration of Jerusalem is completed 49 years and ten days after completing the rebuilding of the Jerusalem Wall under Nehemiah’s leadership (5-year rule date-Chap. 12).

Type of Dated Event: PCD BR Calendar Day Number: 288 BR Years from Creation: 3708 BR: Thursday, August 1 — Av 17, 406 BC GH: Thursday, December 26 — Tevet 6, 405 BC Julian Day Number: 1573861.75

Daniel 9:25

The Restoration of Jerusalem After the Exile

The completion of the restoration of Jerusalem marks the end of the first “seven weeks” of Daniel’s 70 Weeks prophecy. Four hundred years later, close to this date in 6 BC, Zacharias would be told by an Angel that his barren wife would bear a son. Elizabeth, the wife of Zacharias, would soon conceive John the Baptist as recorded in Luke 1:24.

Type of Dated Event: PCD BR Calendar Day Number: 288 BR Years from Creation: 3708 BR: Thursday, August 1 — Av 17, 406 BC GH: Thursday, December 26 — Tevet 6, 405 BC Julian Day Number: 1573861.75

Malachi 4:5-6

End of the Old Testament

The estimated DFC date of the end of the Old Testament is exactly 2,052 years after Noah’s family enters the Ark on Wednesday, October 30−Heshvan 10 in 2458 BC. This is an estimated DFC date for the end of events recorded in the Book of Malachi. Malachi tells about a Prophet like Elijah who would announce the Messiah’s arrival. This messenger would be John the Baptist. CD#14 is the DFC and EDFC date for events between 406 BC and 402 BC. From this point in history, the Old Testament goes silent.

Type of Dated Event: DFC BR Calendar Day Number: 14 BR Years from Creation: 3709 BR: Wednesday, October 30 — Heshvan 10, 406 BC GH: Wednesday, March 26 — Nisan 4, 404 BC Julian Day Number: 1573951.75

Calculated Date From History and Scripture

Darius the Persian Ends Reign

This is an estimated date for the end of Darius the Persian’s reign. The end of his reign is given in history but is not stated in Scripture. This last Heshvan 10 date in 404 BC is the last DFC date in the Old Testament. On this same date in 2458 BC, Noah’s family entered the Ark on the first specific date given in Biblical history. See Genesis 7:1-16. CD#14 is the DFC and EDFC date for events happening between 406 BC and 402 BC.

Type of Dated Event: DFC BR Calendar Day Number: 14 BR Years from Creation: 3711 BR: Wednesday, October 30 — Heshvan 10, 404 BC GH: Wednesday, March 24 — Nisan 2, 402 BC Julian Day Number: 1574679.75

• 7 Days of Creation Week
• Pre-Flood Patriarchs
• Noah's Ark and the Flood
• Post-Flood Patriarchs in the Book of Genesis
• Israel's Patriarchs in Egypt
• Exodus - A Building of a Nation
• The Conquest of Canaan
• The Judges of Israel
• Israel's Kings and Prophets
• 70 Years of Babylonian Captivity
• 70 Weeks of Daniel Prophecy
• Childhood of Jesus
• Public Life of Jesus

Reposted from https://www.thesacredcalendar.com/70-weeks-of-daniel-prophecy/

 

7 Days of Creation Week

Overview of
the “Beginning” of the 7 Days of Creation
“the first day” —  Genesis 1:1-5

        The “Beginning” of the 7 Days of Creation is Saturday October 20, 4101 BC at 6:00 PM on a Gregorian solar calendar in what is now called Israel. The “Beginning” of the 7 Days of Creation Week begins and is tracked on two calendars that start on the same day. While I cannot say with any authority that this is the precise and exact moment that Creation began, I can say that this date in Time is the correct synchronization date of the 364-Day calendar consistent with Scripture and the currently used Gregorian solar calendar.  According to the current Gregorian desktop calendar and the numbered dates in Scripture, this is the best current estimate of the moment that Time began as it is anchored into Eternity. Earth’ calendar officially begins on “the fourth day” when the sun and moon are created according to Genesis 1:14-19. From this precise moment in measured time, Mankind can measure Time on a calendar that measures the sequence of 24-hour days in Earth’s history using the Julian Day Number which is the basis for all computer generated solar calendar converters in use today.

      To put this on a global perspective, when it is 6:00 PM in what is now called Israel; it is 3:00 AM on the International Date Line. The last 6 hours of Saturday on a solar calendar are the first 6 hours of Sunday on a Hebrew calendar. The 364-Day calendar and Gregorian-Hebrew calendar start on the same day at the same time of the day. At 6:00 PM it becomes Sunday October 13 on the 364-Day Hebrew calendar and the start of Day 1 of Creation. Day 1 begins with the first sunset (“evening”), of the Seven Days of Creation Week, followed by the first sunrise (“morning”) which completes the definition of a normal 24-hour day.

        The 7 Days of Creation are completed when Adam and Eve are created full-grown on Saturday October 19, the 6th Day of Creation. God rests on the 7th Day of Creation which is Sunday October 20, 4115 BC. This same day and date on the 364-Day calendar in the year 5 BC would be the calculated date in history on which Jesus ‘The Christ’ is born. Mainly due to the fact that there are approximately 1.25 days difference in the length of a year in the two calendars, the 364-Day calendar and the Gregorian calendar start 14 years and 8 days apart. On the Gregorian-Hebrew calendar, the date for Day 7 of Creation is Sunday October 28, 4101 BC.

The 7 Days of Creation Week run parallel to Easter Week when the calendar at the time of Creation and the 6-month adjusted calendar at the time of the Exodus are placed side-by-side (Exodus 12:1-3). The 7 Days of Creation Week have no corresponding days on the current Hebrew Secular calendar. On the 364-Day calendar the days of Creation Week occur between the end of the first month of Tishri and and the beginning of the second month of Heshvan at the time of Creation.

Text from Earth’s Sacred Calendar:

The Dated Events of the Old Testament

FOURTEEN

“The Beginning”

Seven Days of Creation Week

Sunday October 13 – Creation Day 1, 4115 BC

To Saturday October 19 – Creation Day 7, 4115 BC

Seven 24-Hour Days

9 Events: Genesis Chapters 1 & 2

Genesis 1:1-2

Creation Week Begins-”the beginning”

The 7 Days of Creation Week starts on Saturday, 6 p.m. on a solar calendar, and is “the beginning” start of Sunday, Creation Day 1 on the 364-Day Hebrew calendar consistent with the Biblical text. This 364-Day Bible Reference (BR) calendar seems to digitally generate the main solar calendars used today. This opening verse of Scripture states that God begins the act of Creation by creating the space needed for the universe and matter in the form of the earth. When it is 6 p.m. in what is now known as Israel, it is 3 a.m. on the International Date Line of the same day. It is important to understand that a 24-hour Hebrew calendar day starts at 6 p.m. of the day prior to a normal solar calendar day that starts at midnight. On the Gregorian solar calendar, generated by the 364-Day calendar, the start time of Creation Week, from what is now known as Jerusalem, is 6 p.m. on Saturday, October 20 in 4101 BC. It is from this moment in time that the events of Scripture can be measured on the solar calendars and clocks currently in use. The Julian Day Number, given on this date on the solar calendar, is the last quarter of Saturday at 6 p.m. This moment in time starts the beginning of Sunday, Creation Day 1 on the Hebrew calendar consistent with the dated events of Scripture. All future Julian Day Numbers represent the day number at the start of the Hebrew day at 6 p.m. This is the moment time begins. From this point on, a segment of eternity can be measured on a calendar in days, weeks, months and years.

Type of Dated Event: “the beginning”

BR Calendar Day Number: 361

BR Years from Creation: 0

BR: Sunday, October 13 — Creation Day 1, 4115 BC   Start

GH: Saturday, October 20 — ‘Beginning’, 6:00 p.m., 4101 BC :  Start of Sunday Hebrew Calendar

Julian Day Number: 223858

Genesis 1:1-5

Creation Day 1

Time intersects and anchors into eternity as time begins the events of Creation Day 1. On this “first day”, the heavens, earth, time, light and energy are created. Time begins as God starts the act of Creation by creating a great deal of space. Into this large amount of space, God creates a large amount of formless and seemingly non-energized matter called earth. This monumental event of Creation Week, which is both incomprehensible and unexplainable, is described with very few words in Genesis 1:1-2: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters”. This seemingly effortless action taken by God is followed by his first recorded command in Genesis 1:3: “Let there be light; and there was light.”

Many commentaries on this verse emphasize the theory that God simply turns on the light in a vast expanse of darkness during this part of the Creation process. We can easily miss the significance of this event if we assume that God was working in the dark prior to this moment. This verse in Genesis is describing a much more significant act of Creation that is easily missed by the economy of words in the text. The light that we see as humans is only one of more than seventy-five octaves of known forms of light. The entire electromagnetic spectrum of light is infused as energy into all matter and seemingly empty space. Science claims that even in empty space, that contains no molecules of matter, there is a tremendous amount of energy. This “light” is the glue that gives shape and motion to the chemical elements that make up space and matter. At the moment “light” is created in history, all matter and space is energized and begins to move in measurable speed and time.

History begins with the creation of time, space, matter and energy expressed as light. In Genesis 1:3, God starts and continually sustains the constantly moving and energized universe. Time and history begin with the simple declaration of His Word, “Let there be light”; and there was light”. The Julian Day Number given on this date is at the start of Monday at 6 p.m. All future Julian Day Numbers, ending digitally with 0.00, represent the day number at the start of the Solar calendar. This solar day starts six hours earlier at 6 p.m. This Timeline research will show that the 364-Day calendar, consistent with Scripture, digitally starts on this day and generates the solar calendars used on earth today.

Type of Dated Event: Day#1 Creation

BR Calendar Day Number: 361

BR Years from Creation: 0

BR: Sunday, October 13 — Creation Day 1, 4115 BC

GH: Sunday, October 21 — Tishri 31, 4101 BC

Julian Day Number: 223859

Genesis 1:6-8

Creation Day 2

Space and matter are separated on Creation Day 2. Day 2 of Creation Week is another day of separation and order. On this day, the earth that is covered in water is separated by a space called the “firmament” which God calls “Heaven” in Verse 1:8 of the Book of Genesis. This “firmament” is the sky and space above that we see when we look up from the earth. In this atmosphere wrapped around the earth, in this space called heaven, there is also a great amount of water in the form of thick clouds which some refer to as a canopy of water vapor around the earth. The exact nature of this water area above the area called firmament or heaven cannot be precisely known as it has apparently changed since the time of Noah’s Flood according to 2 Peter 3:5-6 (See footnotes in MacArthur Study Bible). 

The cataclysmic events of The Flood, which changed earth’s atmosphere and landscape, are forgotten in the “scientific” theory of uniformitarianism. This theory claims that the principles that govern nature and the earth have always operated in the same way and will continue into the future. In Scripture, the first heaven is what we would call our atmosphere and is what is created on Creation Day 2. The second heaven in Scripture is created on Creation Day 4 when God makes the sun, moon, stars, and everything we refer to as the universe beyond our atmosphere. The third heaven of Scripture is what we normally refer to as the place where God is seen and the dwelling place of the saints. This third heaven is referred to by Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:2.

Type of Dated Event: Day#2 Creation

BR Calendar Day Number: 362

BR Years from Creation: 0

BR: Monday, October 14 — Creation Day 2, 4115 BC

GH: Monday, October 22 — Heshvan 1, 4101 BC

Julian Day Number: 223860

Genesis 1:9-13

Creation Day 3

The first plant life forms are made on Creation Day 3. On this third day of Creation, God makes His last main separation by dividing the water from the land. The day starts with an earth covered by water. The day ends with the water gathered in one place and the appearance of dry land. The description in Chapter 1 of Genesis seems to imply, that at the end of this third day of Creation, there is one piece of land that is surrounded by one body of water. This appears to be consistent with what is seen by looking at a current globe of the earth. The current continents appear to have once been one piece that was broken up like pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle at the time of Noah’s Flood. God simply speaks and the waters separate and the land appears. “God called the dry land earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called seas”. 

The earth that was once “without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep”, described in Genesis 1:2, now has the shapes formed by earth (land) and sea that can be seen due to the presence of visible light and other forms of energy. The land and the water are now both divided shapes of matter that can be filled with all forms of life “according to its kind”. God spoke again and “the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seeds according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind”, according to Genesis 1:12. All plant life was fully grown and able to reproduce itself. The fruit, seeds and plants would also produce food for the animal life that would be created on days Five and Six of Creation Week. We can reasonably assume that there was also plant life in the seas as well as the land. Even though the sun would not be created until the next day, the process of photosynthesis in plants that produces oxygen for water and land animals would have started due to the presence of the light that was created on Creation Day 1 of Creation Week.

Type of Dated Event: Day#3 Creation

BR Calendar Day Number: 363

BR Years from Creation: 0

BR: Tuesday, October 15 — Creation Day 3, 4115 BC

GH: Tuesday, October 23 — Heshvan 2, 4101 BC

Julian Day Number: 223861

Genesis 1:14-19

Creation Day 4

Creation Day 4 becomes the completion and fulfillment of Creation Day 1. On Creation Day 1 the separation between darkness and light is created by the creation of light. On the fourth day, the light created on Creation Day 1 is attached to or reflected by the heavenly bodies such as stars, moons, planets, comets and our sun. Genesis 1:14 states, the “lights in the firmament” begin functioning as transmitters of light. On the fourth day of Creation, God attaches the light He has made on the first day of Creation to the different “heavenly bodies”. This totally removes the argument for an old earth because some stars are four million light years away. The argument claims that we are seeing the light that left such stars four million years ago. What we are seeing is the light that left such stars about 6,113 solar years ago, when the universe was created. God created the stars and the light between them and earth at the same time. The sun and stars appear to produce their own light as they burn matter. Planets and moons reflect light from stars. Science claims that the sun appears to be made up of 98% helium and hydrogen. Science is unable to explain the process by which the sun burns many thousands of tons of this matter every second. It has been known for many years that the sun is shrinking in diameter at a rate of about five feet in diameter per day. One scientist has estimated that if the sun were 50,000 years old, the oceans on earth would have boiled unless the sun was a much greater distance away. Several scientists have concluded that based on the speed of the shrinking sun, it seems impossible that the sun and earth could be older than about 7,000 years. This fact and other scientific findings, like the measured decline of earth’s magnetic field since 1830, show that the earth cannot be more than 10,000 years based on our knowledge of certain scientific realities of physics. The reader is encouraged to do their own research of the facts in order to properly discern scientific fact from fictional evolutionary theory that is not based on true scientific investigation.

Type of Dated Event: Day#4 Creation

BR Calendar Day Number: 364

BR Years from Creation: 0

BR: Wednesday, October 16 — Creation Day 4, 4115 BC

GH: Wednesday, October 24 — Heshvan 3, 4101 BC

Julian Day Number: 223862

Genesis 1:20-23

Creation Day 5

On Creation Day 5, God speaks swarms of living creatures into the sea and fills the expanse above the earth with birds. Creation Day 5 is the first day of conscious life forms. On Creation Day 3, plants were made that were living things but without consciousness or the ability to independently move freely. According to Genesis 1:22, God commands all living creatures in the sea and air (heavens) to: “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth”.  The same command is given to all the animals on land and to Adam and Eve on the sixth day of Creation Week. 

On the Gregorian-Hebrew calendar (GH), the corresponding date for the fifth day of Creation Week is Friday, October 26–Heshvan 5, 4101 BC (GH). The ability to reproduce according to its own kind in obedience to God’s command is only possible because each species has its own DNA coding. On days three, five, and six, the phrase “according to its kind” is used a total of ten times in Genesis 1:11-25. On Day 3 it is very clear that grass, herbs and fruit trees produce other plants with the same genetic coding. Grasses do not become fruit trees. There is no evolutionary process of one species becoming another.

There is no mention in Scripture of simple life forms evolving upwards to form more complex living organisms. Like the other days of Creation Week, God simply speaks His Word and an uncountable number of living creatures fill the sea and the air. All creatures are created full grown with their own unique genetic coding completely formed. According to Genesis 1:20-21, this all happened on the fifth day when God says; “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens”.  So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good”.

It is very clear from Scripture that birds do not evolve from reptiles as is commonly touted by some evolutionary scientists. While there may be variation and change within a species after creation, such as different kinds of dogs, this has absolutely nothing to do with the instantaneous creation of all the different species of birds and water creatures in one 24-hour period. Science, with its vast amount of information, has absolutely no way of explaining or contributing to our understanding of how the incredible events of Creation Week happened. Evolutionary explanations defy every form of rational process and known true science. There are two main reasons that science has difficulty explaining Evolution. Evolution is biologically impossible and there is no scientific evidence for it simply because it never happened.

Type of Dated Event: Day#5 Creation

BR Calendar Day Number: 1

BR Years from Creation: 0

BR: Thursday, October 17 — Creation Day 5, 4115 BC

GH: Thursday, October 25 — Heshvan 4, 4101 BC

Julian Day Number: 223863

Genesis 1:24-31, 2:7-25

Creation Day 6

According to Genesis 1:24-25, God begins the sixth day of Creation Week by creating all land-based creatures “according to its kind”. The land animals are divided into “cattle and creeping things and beast of the earth”. Cattle would probably include all four-legged domestic animals. The beasts of the earth would refer to all other land-based animals including the dinosaurs. Creeping things would refer to all forms of animals that walk on the earth, including all forms of insects that fly or move in some manner on the ground. Creation Day 6 is finished with the creation of Adam and Eve.

With reference to Adam and Eve, Scripture does not use the phrase “according to its kind”. Instead Genesis 1:26-28 states, “Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth’. So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth”. It is very clear that God created Adam and Eve to be the only animal in creation that can reproduce offspring that will be “in the image of God”. Adam and Eve were the first and only man and woman created fully mature. Adam and Eve were created by God on Saturday, October 19–Creation Day 6 of Creation Week in 4115 BC.

Type of Dated Event: Day#6 Creation

BR Calendar Day Number: 2

BR Years from Creation: 0

BR: Friday, October 18 — Creation Day 6, 4115 BC

GH: Friday, October 26 — Heshvan 5, 4101 BC

Julian Day Number: 223864

Genesis 1:24-31, 2:7-25, 5:1-5; Luke 3:38

Creation Day 6-Creation of Adam

Adam was created on Creation Day 6 of Creation Week and lived 930 years and 183 days using DFC dating. Adam is the father of Seth and male ancestor of all human beings. Like the other parts of the created order, Adam and Eve are blessed by God and instructed to: “Be fruitful and multiply” and “fill the earth”. Adam and Eve are also instructed to subdue the earth and have dominion over all of God’s Creation. As previously stated, the phrase, “according to its kind” is applied to all the birds, fish, and land animals, but not Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve are the only part of Creation made in “His own image; in the image of God He created them”.

Type of Dated Event: Day#6 Creation

BR Calendar Day Number: 2

BR Years from Creation: 0

BR: Friday, October 18 — Creation Day 6, 4115 BC

GH: Friday, October 26 — Heshvan 5, 4101 BC

Julian Day Number: 223864

Genesis 2:18-25

Creation Day 6-Creation of Eve

Eve is created on Creation Day 6 of Creation Week to be a “helper” for Adam. Eve is the mother of Seth and female ancestor of all human beings.

Type of Dated Event: Day#6 Creation

BR Calendar Day Number: 2

BR Years from Creation: 0

BR: Friday, October 18 — Creation Day 6, 4115 BC

GH: Friday, October 26 — Heshvan 5, 4101 BC

Julian Day Number: 223864

Genesis 2:1-6

God Blessed the Seventh Day

Genesis 2:1-3 says, “Thus the heavens and the earth, and all the host of them, were finished. And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made”. Creation Day 7 is certainly a day that has been set apart from the other six days of Creation Week. Creation Day 7 is the day that God “sanctified” and “rested” from His Creation. God rested because His Creation was complete and perfect. Genesis 1:31 states, “God saw everything that He had made, and indeed it was very good”. God had created everything and it was perfect. 

Since sin had not entered the Creation equation at this point in time, there was no death, dying, decay, or disease. Before the Fall into sin by Adam and Eve, described in Genesis 3:1-21, there was no rain, tornadoes, earthquakes, bad weather or weeds. Man did not have to work hard just to survive. Any plant food that was needed was readily available in some form of seed, fruit or vegetable for all of God’s creatures, including Man. There was a great abundance and diversity of types of food. Killing another animal to eat was not necessary. God ceased from all His creative work because nothing else needed to be created or finished. No animals had to be killed to be eaten since all land creatures were vegetarian, including Man.

The significance of Creation Day 7 is given more commentary by Moses during the Exodus. Jesus gives more insight into the purpose of the Sabbath and the inappropriate idolization of Creation Day 7 among the spiritually blind Jewish leaders in His teachings in the New Testament.

Type of Dated Event: Day#7 Creation

BR Calendar Day Number: 3

BR Years from Creation: 0

BR: Saturday, October 19 — Creation Day 7, 4115 BC

GH: Saturday, October 27 — Heshvan 6, 4101 BC

Julian Day Number: 223865

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SNAPCHAT OF JEWISH HISTORY

CHARLES FINNEY

 

CHARLES FINNEY

Complete Index

In the Order of Original Publication

 

Can Two Walk Together Except They Be Agreed?

Sermons on Various Subjects

SINNERS BOUND TO CHANGE THEIR OWN HEART.

HOW TO CHANGE YOUR HEART

TRADITIONS OF THE ELDERS

 

Lectures on Revivals of Religion

PREFACE TO 1835 AND 1868 EDITIONS BY THE LECTURER. 

LECTURE I. - WHAT A REVIVAL OF RELIGION IS. What a revival of religion is not - What it is - The agencies employed in promoting it.

LECTURE II. - WHEN A REVIVAL IS TO BE EXPECTED. When a revival is needed - The importance of a revival when it is needed - When a revival of religion may be expected.

LECTURE III. - HOW TO PROMOTE A REVIVAL. What it is to break up the fallow ground - How it is to be performed.

LECTURE IV. - PREVAILING PRAYER. What is effectual or prevailing prayer - Some of the most essential attributes of prevailing prayer - Some reasons why God requires this kind of prayer - That such prayer will avail much.

LECTURE V. - THE PRAYER OF FAITH. Faith an indispensable condition of prevailing prayer - What it is we are to believe when we pray - When we are bound to exercise this faith - This kind of faith in prayer always obtains the blessing sought - How we are to come into the state of mind in which we can exercise such faith - Objections answered.

LECTURE VI. - THE SPIRIT OF PRAYER. What Spirit is spoken of in the passage: "The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities" - What that Spirit does for us - Why He does what the text declares Him to do - How He accomplishes it - The degrees of His influences - How His influences are to be distinguished from the influences of evil spirits - Who have a right to expect His influences.

LECTURE VII. - ON BEING FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT. Individuals may have the Spirit of God - It is their duty to be filled with the Spirit - Why the Spirit is not obtained - The guilt of those who have not the Spirit of God - The consequences of having the Spirit. - The consequences that will follow not having the Spirit.

LECTURE VIII. - MEETINGS FOR PRAYER. The design of prayer meetings - The manner of conducting them - Several things that will defeat the design of holding them.

LECTURE IX. - MEANS TO BE USED WITH SINNERS. On what particular points Christians are to testify for God - The manner in which they are to testify.

LECTURE X. - TO WIN SOULS REQUIRES WISDOM.How Christians should deal with careless sinners - How they should deal with awakened sinners, and with convicted sinners.

LECTURE XI. - A WISE MINISTER WILL BE SUCCESSFUL A right discharge of the duties of a minister requires great wisdom - The amount of success in the discharge of his duties (other things being equal) decides the amount of wisdom employed by him.

LECTURE XII. - HOW TO PREACH THE GOSPEL. Several passages of Scripture ascribe conversion to man - This is consistent with other passages which ascribe conversion to God - Several important particulars in regard to preaching the Gospel.

LECTURE XIII. - HOW CHURCHES CAN HELP MINISTERS. The importance of the cooperation of the Church in producing and carrying on a revival - Several things which Churches must do, if they would promote a revival and aid their ministers.

LECTURE XIV. - MEASURES TO PROMOTE REVIVALS. God has established no particular system of measures to be employed - Our present forms of public worship have been arrived at by a succession of new measures.

LECTURE XV. - HINDRANCES TO REVIVALS. A revival of religion is a great work - Several things which may put a stop to it - What must be done for the continuance of a revival.

LECTURE XVI. - THE NECESSITY AND EFFECT OF UNION. We are to be agreed in prayer - We are likewise to be agreed in everything that is essential to the blessing we seek.

LECTURE XVII. - FALSE COMFORTS FOR SINNERS. The necessity and design of instructing anxious sinners - Anxious sinners are always seeking comfort - The false comforts that are often administered.

LECTURE XVIII. - DIRECTIONS TO SINNERS. What is a proper direction to be given to sinners when they make inquiry for salvation - What is a proper answer to such inquiry - Several errors into which anxious sinners are apt to fall.

LECTURE XIX. - INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS. Several things to be considered in regard to the hopes of young converts - Several things respecting their making a profession of religion - The importance of having correct instruction given to young converts - What should not be taught - What things are necessary to be taught.

LECTURE XX. - INSTRUCTIONS TO CONVERTS (continued). Other points on which young converts ought to be instructed - How young converts should be treated by the Church - Some of the evils resulting from defective instruction in the first stages of Christian experience.

LECTURE XXI. - THE BACKSLIDER IN HEART. What backsliding in heart is not - What it is - What are its evidences - What are its consequences - How to recover from such a state.

LECTURE XXII. - GROWTH IN GRACE. What grace is - What the injunction to "grow in grace" does not mean - What it does mean - Conditions of growth in grace - What is not proof of growth - What is proof - How to grow in grace.

 

Sermons on Important Subjects

Sinners Bound To Change Their Own Hearts

How To Change Your Heart

Traditions Of The Elders

Total Depravity

Total Depravity 2

Why Sinners Hate God

God Cannot Please Sinners

Christian Affinity

Stewardship

Doctrine of Election

Reprobation

Love Of The World

Lectures to Professing Christians 1836-37

1836 LECTURES

Self Deceivers

False Professors

Doubtful Actions Are Sinful

Reproof A Christian Duty

True Saints

Legal Religion

Religion of Public Opinion

Conformity To The World

True And False Repentance

Dishonesty In Small Matters Inconsistent With Honesty In Any Thing

Bound To Know Your True Character

1837 LECTURES

True And False Conversion

True Submission

Selfishness Not True Religion

Religion Of The Law And Gospel

Justification By Faith

Sanctification By Faith

Legal Experience

Christian Perfection Pt 1

Christian Perfection Pt 2

Way Of Salvation

Necessity Of Divine Teaching

Love The Whole Of Religion

Rest Of The Saints

Christ The Husband Of The Church

 

The Oberlin Evangelist 1839-1862

1839

Eternal Life

Faith

Devotion

True and False Religion

The Law of God--no. 1

The Law of God--no. 2

Glorifying God

True and False Peace

Gospel Freedom

Carefulness a Sin

The Promises of God--no. 1

The Promises of God--no. 2

(cont.) The Promises of God--no. 3

(cont.) The Promises of God--no. 4

(cont.) The Promises of God--no. 5

Being in Debt

The Holy Spirit of Promise

The Covenants

The Rest of Faith--no. 1

The Rest of Faith--no. 2

The Affections and Emotions of God

Legal and Gospel Experience

How to Prevent Our Employments From Injuring Our Souls

Grieving the Holy Spirit--no. 1

Grieving the Holy Spirit--no. 2

 

LETTERS AND ARTICLES

To The Young Christians Who Have Been Converted In The Great Revivals # 1

To The Christian Readers of The Oberlin Evangelist

To The Young Christians Who Have Been Converted In The Great Revivals # 2

To The Readers: Four Classes of Professors In The Church

Why The Converts of The Great Revivals Have Not Grown More In Grace # 1

Why The Converts of The Great Revivals Have Not Grown More In Grace # 2

1840

Sanctification--no. 1

Sanctification--no. 2

Sanctification--no. 3

Sanctification--no. 4

Sanctification--no. 5

Sanctification--no. 6

Sanctification--no. 7

Sanctification--no. 8

Sanctification--no. 9

Unbelief--no. 1

Unbelief--no. 2

Blessednesss of Benevolence

A Willing Mind Indispensable to a Right Understanding of Truth

Death to Sin

The Gospel the Savor of Life or of Death

Christians the Light of the World

Communion with God--no. 1

Communion with God--no. 2

Temptations Must Be Put Away

Design or Intention Constitutes Character

Confession of Faults

Weakness of Heart

A Single and an Evil Eye

Salvation Always Conditional

Letters and Articles

TO THE EDITORS OF PERIODICALS WHO ARE PROFESSING CHRISTIANS.

TO THE PROFESSORS OF RELIGION WHO WERE MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH PREVIOUS TO THE LATE GREAT REVIVALS

Nine Letters to Ministers

Seven Letters To Parents 

Advertisement for Publication of "Skeletons of a Course of Theological Lectures by Rev. C.G. Finney"

Four Letters to Believers in The Doctrine of Entire and Continued Sanctification in This Life

1841

Submission to God

Submission to God--no. 2

Love Worketh No Ill

Self Denial

The True Service of God

Entire Consecration a Condition of Discipleship

A Seared Conscience

A Seared Conscience--no. 2

Conditions of Being Kept

National Fast Day

Mediatorship of Christ

Letters and Articles

11 Letters by Charles Finney in Response to Objections Made to His "LETTERS TO BELIEVERS IN THE DOCTRINE OF ENTIRE AND CONTINUED SANCTIFICATION IN THIS LIFE IN 4 LETTERS" published in the 1840 Oberlin Evangelist

3 Additional Articles to the Oberlin Evangelist: First, Second, Third

1842

Thy Will Be Done

Danger of Delusion

Ability and Inability

God Under Obligation To Do Right

Ordination Sermon

Wisdom Justified of Her Children

1843

Prove All Things

Nature of True Virtue

Selfishness

Christian Character

Christian Warfare

Putting on Christ

Way to Be Holy

What Attainments Christians May Reasonably Expect to Make in This Life

Necessity and Nature of Divine Teaching

Fulness There is in Christ

Justification

Unbelief

Gospel Liberty

Joy in God

The Benevolence of God

Revelation of God's Glory

1844

Hardness of Heart

The Eyes Opened to the Law of God

The Eyes Opened to the Law of God pt.--2

Christian Witnesses for God

Fearing the Lord and Walking in Darkness

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

1845

The Sin of Fretfulness

Governing the Tongue

Dependence on Christ

Weights and Besetting Sins

Rejoicing in Boastings

The Church Bound to Convert the World

The Church Bound to Convert the World pt.--2

Trusting in God's Mercy

The Old Man and The New

Coming Up through Great Tribulation

Delighting in the Lord

Having a Good Conscience

Relations of Christ to the Believer

The Folly of Refusing to be Saved

Seeking the Kingdom of God First

Faith in its Relations to the Love of God

Victory over the World through Faith

Letters and Articles

21 Letters On Revival: 1845

4 LETTERS FROM PROF. FINNEY TO MISS A.E. OF VERMONT

EXPLANATORY REMARKS FROM PROF. FINNEY UPON A RECENT SERMON

1846

The Nature of Impenitence and the Measure of Its Guilt

The Rule by Which the Guilt of Sin is Estimated

On Divine Manifestations

On the Lord's Supper

Forfeiting Birth-right Blessings

Afflictions of the Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted

On Becoming Acquainted With God

God Manifesting Himself to Moses

Coming to The Waters of Life

The Blessedness of Enduring Temptation

Quenching the Spirit

Responsibility of Hearing the Gospel

Letters and Articles

11 Letters On Revival

Letters to Christians #1

1847

All Things for Good to Those that Love God

All Events Ruinous to the Sinner

Heart Condemnation, A Proof that God Also Condemns

An Approving Heart--Confidence in Prayer

Conditions of Prevailing Prayer

Conditions of Prevailing Prayer pt.--2

Conditions of Prevailing Prayer pt.--3

Letters and Articles  

Prof. Finney's letters to Christians #2

Prof. Finney's letters to Christians #3

Prof. Finney's View on Justification by Faith

1848

Refuges of Lies

The Spirit Not Striving Always

The Excuses of Sinners Condemn God

Conditions of Being Saved

Substitution

Pride of Heart Deceives

Letters and Articles  

Last Sickness and Death of Mrs. Finney

Difficulties with the Doctrine of Sanctification Stated and Removed

1849

Mutual Confession of Faults, and Mutual Prayer

God's Anger Against the Wicked

Evil Thinking

Prayer for A Pure Heart

The Joy of God's Salvation

Jesus, A Savior from Sinning

The Self-Hardening Sinner's Doom

The Death of Saints Precious

God Not Pleased with the Death of the Wicked

The Spirit of Christ, and the Spirit of True Christianity

Judicial Blindness

The Peace of God Ruling in the Christian's Heart

Receiving Honor from Men and Not from God

Faith the Work of God

1850

The Foundation, Conditions, and Relations of Faith

Letters and Articles

Finney's Reception and Published Works in England

Early Life of C.G. Finney

Long Report on Finney by the "British Banner"

Finney's Labors Described

Prof. Finney in London

Prof. Finney's Labors in London

Prof. Finney's Orthodoxy in England

"British Banner" Reports on Finney

British Estimate of Finney's Usefulness

Note on When Finney will Return from England

Newspapeer Reporter on Finney's Labors in England

Late Notice of Finney Preaching in England

1851

The Loss When a Soul is Lost

Awaking from The Sleep of Spiritual Death

Jesus Christ Doing Good

The Wicked Heart Set to do Evil

Repentance Before Prayer for Forgiveness

Letters and Articles

Report of Finney's Labors in London

Finney's Letter to Massachusetts Critics of Revivals

Closing Account of Finney's Labors in England

Remarks on Revivals of 1830, 1831

Address by Finney to Graduating Class

1852

The Child-Like Spirit an Essential Condition of Entering Heaven

The Fearful Results of a Spiritual Relapse

God's Love to Sinners as Seen in the Gospel

All Things for Good to Those That Love God

All Things Conspire for Evil to The Sinner

Guilt Modified by Ignorance

Salvation Difficult to The Christian--Impossible to The Sinner

The Salvation of Sinners Impossible

Paul and Felix, Or Preaching and Procrastination

Christ Tempted, Suffering, and Able to Succor The Tempted

Election and Reprobation

Letters and Articles

Report on Revival of Finney in Hartford, Conn

Remarks on Hartford, Conn. Revival

1853

Prayer and Labor for the Gathering of The Great Harvest

Men Invited to Reason Together With God

The Saviour Lifted up, and the Look of Faith

The Sinner's Excuses Answered

God's Love for A Sinning World

Alive Without the Law, Slain Thereby

The Essential Elements of Christian Experience

Death to Sin Through Christ

The Richman and Lazarus

Losing One's First Love

Jehovah's Appeal to Sinners and Backsliders

Letters and Articles

Pres. Finney in Syracuse, NY

On Sanctification by Finney--#1

Report on Finney in Syracuse

On Sanctificaton by Finney--#2

Shall the Holy Ghost be recognized in Revivals?

Remarks on Finney in Syracuse

On Sanctificaton by Finney--#3

To the NY Synod by Finney

1854

Converting Sinners A Christian Duty

Christ Our Advocate with The Father

The Inner and The Outer Revelation

On Quenching The Spirit

What Men Highly Esteem, God Abhors

Variety in the Service Offered to God

License, Bondage and Liberty

Living by Faith

God's Commandments Not Grievous

The Wages of Sin

The Wants of Man and Their Supply

Where Sin Occurs God Cannot Wisely Prevent It

The Ways of Sin Hard; Of Holiness, Pleasant

The Indications and The Guilt of Backsliding

The Christian's Genuine Hope

The Primitive Prayer-Meeting

Letters and Articles

Finney Preaches Revival in Cincinnati

Report of Revival in Cincinnati

1855

On Prayer

On Persevering Prayer for Others

On Being Almost Persuaded to be a Christian

On Neglecting Salvation

On Prayer for The Holy Spirit

Conscience and The Bible in Harmony

God Has No Pleasure In The Sinner's Death

On Being Searched of God

On Injustice To Character

God's Goodness Toward Men Basely Requited

Losing First Love

Men, Ignorant of God's Righteousness, Would Fain Establish Their Own

Adorning the Doctrine of God Our Savior

Letters and Articles

Welsh Paper's account of Revival in Rome, NY

Finney preaches Revival For Cowles in Rome, NY

Finney to The Readers of The Oberlin Evangelist

1856

Thanks for The Gospel Victory

Gospel Ministers Ambassadors for Christ

The Destruction of the Wicked

The Wicked Stumbling in Their Darkness

On The Atonement

The Sinner's Natural Power and Moral Weakness

Moral Insanity

On Believing with The Heart

On Offering Praise to God

Letters and Articles

Finney Preaching Revival in Rochester

Eyewitness Report by Cowles on Rochester Revival

Revival in Rochester

Report on Rochester Revival

Finney Departs Rochester

1857

Owing God pt1

Owing God pt2

On Sinning  

On Being Holy

The Lord's People His Portion

The Wrath of God Against Those Who Withstand His Truth

On Confessing and Being Cleansed From Sin

Letters and Articles

Finney Winters in Boston

Pres. Finney, Boston and Oberlin

1858

The Doom of Those Who Neglect The Great Salvation

The Treasure and The Pearl

The Self-Righteous Sinner Doomed to Sorrow

Sufficient Grace

On Following Christ

Christian Consciousness, A Witness for God

God's Love To Us

The Blessedness of the Merciful

Blessedness of The Pure In Heart

Blessed Are The Persecuted

On Refuges Of Lies

God's Wrath Against Those Who Withstand His Truth

Abiding In Christ and Not Sinning

1859

On Tenderness of Heart

The One Thing Needful

On Self-Denial

The Way That Seems Right, But Ends In Death

Letters and Articles

Dr. Campbell on Pres. Finney in England

Dr. Campbell and Pres. Finney.

Dr. Redford on Prest. Finney's Theology.

Mr. Finney in Scotland

1860

On Loving God

On Love To Our Neighbor

Spiritual Delusion

On Leaving One's First Love

Letters and Articles

President Finney and His Labors.

Finney in Bolton, England

Bolton Chronicle Report of Revival in England

The Revival in Bolton

Finney's Labors in Bolton, England

Report of Revival in England

Finney Returns from England

A Call To Finney to Write His Revival "Memoirs"

1861

Christ's Yoke Is Easy

Christ Our Advocate

Living To Please God

Wherefore Do The Wicked Live

Hardness Of Heart

Harden Not Your Heart

Tender-Heartedness

The Kingdom of God In Consciousness

Looking To Jesus

Profit and Loss; Or The Worth of The Soul pt. 1

Profit and Loss; Or The Worth of The Soul pt. 2

Sinners Not Willing To Be Christians pt. 1

Sinners Not Willing To Be Christians pt. 2

Holding The Truth in Unrighteousness pt. 1

Holding The Truth in Unrighteousness pt. 2

Any One Form of Sin Persisted In Is Fatal To The Soul

Revival pt 1

Revival pt 2

Revival pt 3

Letters and Articles

Report on Finney's Health

1862

Great Peace pt 1

Great Peace pt 2

Moral Depravity pt 1

Moral Depravity pt 2

 

Views Of Sanctification 1840

 

Skeletons of a Course of Theological Lectures 1840

PREFACE Methods to be used in this course of study. What to expect and what not to expect. What is required.

LECTURE 1. Introduction. Define the Study; Requisite Personal Qualifications; Advantages derived from the study of Systematic Theology; Things to be avoided.

LECTURE 2. Some things implied in the study of Theology; Some things that we know of man, independently of any revelation or knowledge of God.

LECTURE 3. Importance of a correct knowledge of the laws of evidence; Evidence and Proof, and their difference; Sources of evidence; Kinds and degrees of evidence; When objections are not, and when they are fatal; How objections are to be disposed of; On whom lies the burden of proof; Where proof or argument must begin.

LECTURE 4. Existence of God. Methods of proof; Their amount.

LECTURE 5. Atheism. Definition; Different forms; Principal objections to Theism answered; Difficulties of Atheism.

LECTURE 6. Divine authority of the Bible. A farther revelation from God than that which is made in the works or nature and providence needed; Such a revelation possible; Such a revelation probable; The scriptures of the Old and New Testaments, a direct revelation from God.

LECTURE 7. Inspiration of the Bible. What is not implied in the inspiration of the Bible; What is implied; How a question of this kind cannot be proved; How it can be proved; The Bible an inspired Book; Objections answered.

LECTURE 8. Deism. Deism defined; Different classes of Deists; Their objections to Christianity; Difficulties of Deism.

LECTURE 9. Natural Attributes of God. A Natural Attribute defined; What are some of the Natural Attributes of God; Prove that God possesses them.

LECTURE 10. Moral Attributes of God. A Moral Attribute defined; Some of the Moral Attributes of God; Prove that God possesses them; Benevolence.

LECTURE 11. Justice of God. The term Justice defined; The several senses in which it is used; God is just; An objection answered.

LECTURE 12. Mercy of God. What Mercy is not; What it is; In what cases it can be exercised; To what extent; On what conditions; Mercy an attribute of God.

LECTURE 13. Truth of God. Truth defined; Truth an attribute of God.

LECTURE 14. Wisdom of God. Wisdom defined; Wisdom an attribute of God.

LECTURE 15. Holiness of God. Remarks; Holiness defined; Holiness an attribute of God.

LECTURE 16. Unity of God. Meaning of the term Unity when applied to God; Remarks in respect to the manner in which this subject has been treated in different ages and nations; Unity of God proved.

LECTURE 17. Trinity or Tri unity of God. Doctrine stated; The point now under consideration; Sources of evidence; Amount of evidence to be expected, if the doctrine be true; Proof adduced; Objections answered.

LECTURE 18. Divinity of Christ. What is intended by the Divinity of Christ; Christ truly divine, or the true God; Objections answered.

LECTURE 19. Humanity of Christ. Various opinions noticed; What is intended by the Humanity of Christ; Doctrine proved.

LECTURE 20. Personality and Divinity of the Holy Spirit. What is not intended by the Divinity of the Holy Spirit; He is truly God; What is intended by the Personality of the Holy Spirit; His Divinity proved.

LECTURE 21. Providence of God. What is intended by the Providence of God; God administers over the universe a providential government; Different theories and arguments noticed; Show what seems to be the truth.

LECTURE 22. Moral Government. Moral Government defined; What it implies.

LECTURE 23. Foundation of Moral Obligation. Moral Obligation defined; Conditions of Moral Obligation; Foundation of Moral Obligation.

LECTURE 24. Whose right it is to govern. God a moral being; God a Moral Governor.

LECTURE 25. What is implied in the right to Govern. Reciprocal duties of rulers and ruled.

LECTURE 26. Moral Law. What Law is; Moral Law defined; Moral Law a unit; No being can make law; The will of the ruler can be obligatory only as it is declaratory of what the Law is.

LECTURE 27. Law of God. What is intended by the Law of God; The Commandments declaratory; The Ten Commandments illustrations of this; Sanctions of the Law; First Commandment. Its true meaning. Second Commandment. Reasons for it; what it prohibits. Third Commandment. Its true spirit; Reasons for this Commandment.

LECTURE 28. Fourth Commandment. When the Sabbath was instituted; Its design; Its necessity; Its perpetual and universal obligation; The manner of its observance; Its change from the seventh to the first day of the week.

LECTURE 29. Fifth Commandment. Reasons for this Commandment; What it implies; What it prohibits. Sixth Commandment. What its letter prohibits; Its true spirit; What is, and what is not prohibited by its spirit; What its spirit requires; Reasons for it; Violations of it.

LECTURE 30. Seventh Commandment. What it implies; What it prohibits; Reasons for it. Eighth Commandment. What it implies; What it prohibits; Reasons for it; When it is violated.

LECTURE 31. Ninth Commandment. What it implies; What is not a violation of it; What it prohibits; Reasons for it. Tenth Commandment. What it implies; What is not a breach of it; What it prohibits and enjoys; Reasons for it.

LECTURE 32. Sanctions of Law. What constitutes sanctions; There can be no Law without them; In what light they are to be regarded; The end to be secured by law and the execution of penal Sanctions; Rule for graduating them.

LECTURE 33. Sanctions of God's Law. God's law has Sanctions; What constitutes the remuneratory Sanctions of God's Law; Their perfection and duration; What constitutes its vindicatory Sanctions; Their duration.

LECTURE 34. Governmental principles.

LECTURE 35. The Atonement. Its Intention; The Atonement necessary.

LECTURE 36. Reasons why an Atonement was preferable to punishment, or to the execution of the Divine Law.

LECTURE 37. What constitutes the Atonement. Not Christ's obedience to law as a covenant of works; His sufferings and death constitute the Atonement; His taking human nature and obeying unto death a reason for our being treated as righteous: Nature and kind of his sufferings; Amount of his sufferings; The Atonement not a commercial transaction; The Atonement a satisfaction of public justice.

LECTURE 38. Value of the Atonement. In what its value consists; How great its value is; For whose benefit it was intended.

LECTURE 39. Influence of the Atonement.

LECTURE 40. Objections answered.

LECTURE 41. Human Governments a part of the Moral Government of God. Human Governments a necessity of human nature; This necessity will continue as long as men exist in the present world; Human Governments recognized in the Bible as a part of the Government of God; Whose right and duty it is to govern; In what cases human legislation imposes moral obligation, It is the duty of all men to aid in the establishment and support of Human Government; The supposition that Human Government can ever be dispensed with in this world, a ridiculous and absurd dream; Objections answered.

LECTURE 42. Human Governments a part of the Moral Government of God. Reasons why God has made no particular form of Church or State Governments universally obligatory; Particular forms of Church and State Government must and will depend upon the intelligence and virtue of the people: True basis on which the right of Human Legislation rests; 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.

 

Letters To Parents --1840

LETTER #1

LETTER #2

LETTER #3

LETTER #4

LETTER #5

LETTER #6

LETTER #7

 

Holiness of Christians in this Present Life--1843

PROVE ALL THINGS

NATURE OF TRUE VIRTUE

SELFISHNESS

CHRISTIAN CHARACTER

CHRISTIAN WARFARE

PUTTING ON CHRIST

WAY TO BE HOLY

WHAT ATTAINMENTS CHRISTIANS MAY REASONABLY EXPECT TO MAKE IN THIS LIFE.

NECESSITY AND NATURE OF DIVINE TEACHING.

FULNESS THERE IS IN CHRIST

JUSTIFICATION

UNBELIEF

GOSPEL LIBERTY

 

Letters On Revival--1845-46

LETTER NO. 1

LETTER NO. 2

LETTER NO. 3

LETTER NO. 4

LETTER NO. 5

LETTER NO. 6

LETTER NO. 7

LETTER NO. 8

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LETTER NO. 14

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LETTER NO. 16

LETTER NO. 17

LETTER NO. 18

LETTER NO. 19

LETTER NO. 20

LETTER NO. 21

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LETTER NO. 28

LETTER NO. 29

LETTER NO. 30

LETTER NO. 31

LETTER NO. 32

 

Systematic Theology, Volume 2 --1846

TITLE PAGE

PREFACE

LECTURE 1

Moral government

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

LECTURE 2

Moral Government--Continued

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

LECTURE 3

Moral Government--Continued

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

LECTURE 4

Foundation of Moral Obligation

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

LECTURE 5

Foundation of Moral Obligation--False Theories

That the sovereign will of God is the foundation of Moral Obligation -- The theory of Paley -- The utilitarian philosophy

LECTURE 6

Foundation of Moral Obligation--False Theories

The theory that regards right as the foundation of moral obligation

LECTURE 7

Foundation of Moral Obligation--False Theories

The theory that the goodness or moral excellence of God is the foundation of moral obligation

LECTURE 8

Foundation of Moral Obligation--False Theories

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

LECTURE 9

Foundation of Moral Obligation--Practical Bearings of the Different Theories

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

LECTURE 10

Foundation of Moral Obligation--Practical Bearings of the Different Theories--Continued

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

LECTURE 11

Moral Government--Continued

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

LECTURE 12

Moral Government--Continued

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

LECTURE 13

Moral Government--Continued

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

LECTURE 14

Moral Government--Continued

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

LECTURE 15

Attributes of Love

Efficiency--Penitence--Faith--Complacency 

LECTURE 16

Attributes of Love--Continued

Opposition--Compassion

LECTURE 17

Attributes of Love--Continued

Mercy--Justice--Truth or truthfulness 

LECTURE 18

Attributes of Love--Continued

Patience -- Meekness -- Long-suffering -- Humility 

LECTURE 19

Attributes of Love--Continued

Self-Denial--Condescension--Candor--Stability--Kindness--Severity 

LECTURE 20

Attributes of Love--Continued

Holiness, or Purity --Modesty --Sobriety --Sincerity --Zeal --Unity --Simplicity 

LECTURE 21

Attributes of Love--Continued

Gratitude --Wisdom --Economy 

LECTURE 22

Moral Government

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 

LECTURE 23

Moral Government

What constitutes disobedience --What is not implied in disobedience to the law of God 

LECTURE 24

Attributes of Selfishness

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 

LECTURE 25

Attributes of Selfishness--Continued

Efficiency --Opposition to benevolence or to virtue --Cruelty --Unreasonableness --Injustice 

LECTURE 26

Attributes of Selfishness-Continued

Oppression --War --Unmercifulness --Falsehood or lying--Pride 

LECTURE 27

Attributes of Selfishness--Continued

Enmity--Madness--Impatience--Intemperance--Recklessness--Unity 

LECTURE 28

Attributes of Selfishness--Continued

Egotism--Simplicity--Total Moral Depravity implied in selfishness as one of its attributes--The scriptures assume and affirm it--Remarks 

LECTURE 29

Moral Government

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 

LECTURE 30

Moral Government

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 

LECTURE 31

Atonement

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 

LECTURE 32

Extent of Atonement

For whose benefit the Atonement was intended--Objections answered --Remarks on the Atonement

LECTURE 33

Human Government

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 

LECTURE 34

Human Governments--Continued

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 

LECTURE 35

Moral Depravity

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

LECTURE 36

Moral Depravity--Continued

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 

LECTURE 37 

Moral Depravity--Continued

Further examination of the arguments adduced in support of the position that human nature is in itself sinful 

LECTURE 38

Moral Depravity--Continued

The Proper Method of Accounting for Moral Depravity--Prest. Edwards views examined--Summary of the Truth on this subject--Remarks 

LECTURE 39

Regeneration

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 

LECTURE 40

Regeneration--Continued

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 

LECTURE 41

Regeneration--Continued

Evidences of Regeneration--Introductory Remarks--Wherein the experience and outward life of saints and sinners may agree--Remarks 

LECTURE 42

Regeneration--Continued

Wherein Saints and Sinners or Deceived Professors must differ 

LECTURE 43

Regeneration--Continued

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 

LECTURE 44

Regeneration--Continued--Wherein Saints and Sinners differ

Systematic Theology, Volume 3 --1847

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--conti 

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

Oberlin Quarterly Review --1846-1848

ARTICLE XX.MORAL DEPRAVITY [Part 1] BY REV. C. G. FINNEY,

ARTICLE XXIV.MORAL DEPRAVITY [Part 2] BY REV. C. G. FINNEY,

MEDICAL REVIEW BY PROF. C. G. FINNEY

ARTICLE XLVIII. RECENT DISCUSSIONS ON ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION IN THIS LIFE BY PROF. C. G. FINNEY.

ARTICLE LII. AN EXAMINATION, BY REV. C. G. FINNEY, Of the Review of Finney's Systematic Theology published in the Biblical Repertory, Princeton, N.J., June, 1847.

ARTICLE LXVIII.A REPLY BY PROF. C. G. FINNEY. to the "WARNING AGAINST ERROR," which was written by the Rev. Dr. Duffield, and approved and adopted, first by the Presbytery of Detroit, and subsequently by the Synod of Michigan

 

Guide to the Savior--1848

 

Two Sermons --1849

The New Birth.

Enoch's Testimony.

The Penny Pulpit --1849-51

Regeneration

Pleasing God

Heart Searching

Acceptable Prayer

The Kingdom Of God Upon Earth

The Reward of Fervent Prayer

The Promises Of God

Christ The Mediator

Christ Magnifying The Law

The Spiritual Claims Of London

The Conditions of Prevailing Prayer

How To Prevail With God

The Use And Prevalence Of Christ's Name

Making God A Liar

The Great Business of Life

Mocking God

Why London Is Not Converted

Holiness Essential To Salvation

Real Religion

Great Cities--What Hinders Their Conversion

Proving God

Total Abstinence A Christian Duty

Quenching The Spirit

The Sabbath School--Cooperation With God

The Sabbath School--Conditions Of Success

Not Far From The Kingdom Of God

The Christian's Rule Of Life

Hardening The Heart

Seeking Honour From Men

Purity Of Heart And Life

The Sinner's Self Condemnation

Refuges Of Lies

The Spirit Ceasing To Strive

The Conversion Of Children

The Wonderful Love Of God

The Infinite Worth Of The Soul

Family Government

Christ Appearing Among His People

The Awful Ingratitude Of The Sinner

Little Sins

The Sinner's Self-Destruction

The Rationality Of Faith

The Certain Doom Of The Impenitent

A Public Profession Of Christ

The Whole Counsel Of God

 

Repentance: ITS NATURE, GROUNDS, NECESSITY, AND INFINITE IMPORTANCE. 1851

 

1851 Systematic Theology

PREFACE by the AUTHOR

PREFACE by the EDITOR

LECTURE I. Various classes of truths, and how the mind attains to a knowledge of them

LECTURE II. -- Moral Government. Definition of the term law . . Distinction between physical and moral law . . The essential attributes of moral law . . Subjectivity . . Objectivity . . Liberty, as opposed to necessity . . Fitness . . Universality . . Impartiality . . Justice . . Practicability . . Independence . . Immutability . . Unity . . Equity . . Expediency . . Exclusiveness

LECTURE III. -- Moral Government--Continued. 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 . . Moral obligation . . The conditions of moral obligation . . Remarks

LECTURE IV. -- Moral Government--Continued. 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

LECTURE V. -- Foundation of Moral Obligation. What is intended by the foundation of moral obligation . . The extent of moral obligation . . Remind you of the distinction between the ground and conditions of obligation . . Points of agreement among the principal parties in this discussion . . Wherein they disagree . . That the sovereign will of God is not the foundation of moral obligation . . The theory of Paley . . The utilitarian philosophy

LECTURE VI. -- Foundation of Moral Obligation. False Theories. The theory that regards right as the foundation of moral obligation

LECTURE VII. -- Foundation of Moral Obligation. False Theories. The theory that the goodness or moral excellence of God is the foundation of moral obligation

LECTURE VIII. -- Foundation of Moral Obligation. False Theories. 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

LECTURE IX. -- Foundation of Obligation. Another form of the theory that affirms the complexity of the foundation of moral obligation; complex however only in a certain sense

LECTURE X. -- Foundation of Obligation. The intrinsic absurdity of various theories

LECTURE XI. Summing up

LECTURE XII. -- Foundation of Moral Obligation. Practical Bearings of the Different Theories. 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

LECTURE XIII. -- 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, viz. that the highest well-being of God and of the universe is the sole foundation of moral obligation

LECTURE XIV. -- Moral Government--Continued. 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

LECTURE XV. -- Moral Government--Continued. 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

LECTURE XVI. -- Moral Government--Continued. 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

LECTURE XVII. -- Moral Government--Continued. What is implied in obedience to the moral law . . 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

LECTURE XVIII. -- Attributes of Love. Efficiency . . Penitence . . Faith . . Complacency

LECTURE XIX. -- Attributes of Love--Continued. Opposition to Sin . . Compassion

LECTURE XX. -- Attributes of Love--Continued. Mercy . . Justice . . Veracity

LECTURE XXI. -- Attributes of Love--Continued. Patience . . Meekness . . Long-suffering . . Humility

LECTURE XXII. -- Attributes of Love--Continued. Self-denial . . Condescension . . Candour . . Stability . . Kindness . . Severity

LECTURE XXIII. -- Attributes of Love--Continued. Holiness, or Purity . . Modesty . . Sobriety . . Sincerity . . Zeal . . Unity . . Simplicity

LECTURE XXIV. -- Attributes of Love--Continued. Gratitude . . Wisdom . . Grace . . Economy

LECTURE XXV. -- Moral Government. 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

LECTURE XXVI. -- Moral Government. What constitutes disobedience . . What is not implied in disobedience to the law of God

LECTURE XXVII. -- Attributes of Selfishness. 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

LECTURE XXVIII. -- Attributes of Selfishness--Continued. Efficiency . . Opposition to benevolence or to virtue . . Cruelty . . Injustice

LECTURE XXIX. -- Attributes of Selfishness--Continued. Oppression . . Hostility . . Unmercifulness . . Falsehood, or lying . . Pride

LECTURE XXX. -- Attributes of Selfishness--Continued. Enmity . . Madness . . Impatience . . Intemperance . . Moral recklessness . . Unity

LECTURE XXXI. -- Attributes of Selfishness--Continued.

Egotism . . Simplicity . . Total moral depravity implied in selfishness as one of its attributes . . The scriptures assume and affirm it . . Remarks

LECTURE XXXII. -- Moral Government--Continued. A return to 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

LECTURE XXXIII. -- Moral Government--Continued. 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 . . Infinites 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

LECTURE XXXIV. -- Atonement. 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 à 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

LECTURE XXXV. -- Extent of Atonement. For whose benefit the atonement was intended . . Objections answered . . Remarks on the atonement

LECTURE XXXVI. -- Human Government. 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

LECTURE XXXVII. -- Human Governments--Continued. The reasons why God has made no form of civil government universally obligatory . . The particular forms of state government must and will depend upon the 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

LECTURE XXXVIII. -- Moral Depravity. 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

LECTURE XXXIX. -- Moral Depravity--Continued. 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

LECTURE XL. -- Moral Depravity--Continued. Further examination of the arguments adduced in support of the position that human nature is in itself sinful

LECTURE XLI. -- Moral Depravity--Continued. The proper method of accounting for moral depravity . . Pres. Edwards's views examined . . Summary of the truth on this subject . . Remarks

LECTURE XLII. -- Regeneration. 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 distinction . . 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

LECTURE XLIII. -- Regeneration--Continued. Philosophical theories of regeneration . . The different theories of regeneration examined . . Objections to the taste scheme . . The divine efficiency scheme . . Objections to the divine efficiency . . The susceptibility scheme . . Theory of a divine moral suasion . . Objections to this theory . . Remarks

LECTURE XLIV. -- Regeneration--Continued. Evidences of regeneration . . Introductory remarks . . Wherein the experience and outward life of saints and sinners may agree . . Remarks

LECTURE XLV. -- Regeneration--Continued. Wherein saints and sinners or deceived professors must differ

LECTURE XLVI. -- Regeneration--Continued. 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?

LECTURE XLVII. -- Regeneration--Continued. Wherein saints and sinners differ

LECTURE XLVIII. -- 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 XLIX. -- Moral Ability. What constitutes moral inability according to the Edwardean school . . Their moral inability consists in real disobedience, and a natural inability to obey . . This pretended distinction between natural and moral inability is nonsensical . . 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 L. -- 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 LI. -- Gracious Ability. What is intended by the term . . This doctrine as held is an absurdity . . In what sense a gracious ability is possible

LECTURE LII. -- The Notion of Inability. Proper mode of accounting for it

LECTURE LIII. [There is no Lecture LIII in the printed book. The lectures are incorrectly numbered.)

LECTURE LIV. -- 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 LV. -- 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 LVI. -- Justification. What justification is not . . What it is . . Conditions of gospel justification

LECTURE LVII. -- Sanctification. An account of the recent discussions that have been had on this subject

LECTURE LVIII. -- 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 LIX. -- Sanctification. Entire sanctification is attainable in this life

LECTURE LX. -- Sanctification. Bible argument

LECTURE LXI. -- Sanctification. Paul entirely sanctified

LECTURE LXII. -- Sanctification. Condition of its attainment

LECTURE LXIII. -- Sanctification. Condition of its attainment--continued . . Relations of Christ to the believer

LECTURE LXIV. -- Sanctification. Relations of Christ to the believer--continued

LECTURE LXV. -- Sanctification. Relations of Christ to the believer--continued

LECTURE LXVI. -- Sanctification. Relations of Christ to the believer--continued

LECTURE LXVII. -- Sanctification. Relations of Christ to the believer--continued

LECTURE LXVIII. -- Sanctification. Objections answered

LECTURE LXIX. -- Sanctification. Tendency of the denial that Christians have valid grounds of hope that they should obtain a victory over sin in this life

LECTURE LXX. -- Sanctification. Objections--continued

LECTURE LXXI. -- Sanctification. Objections--continued

LECTURE LXXII. -- Sanctification. Objections--continued

LECTURE LXXIII. -- Sanctification. Remarks

LECTURE LXXIV. Election

LECTURE LXXV. Reprobation

LECTURE LXXVI. Divine Sovereignty

LECTURE LXXVII. Purposes of God

LECTURE LXXVIII. -- Perseverance of Saints. Notice the different kinds of certainty . . What is not intended by the perseverance of the saints

LECTURE LXXIX. Perseverance of Saints proved

LECTURE LXXX. -- Perseverance of Saints. Further objections considered

LECTURE LXXXI. -- Perseverance of Saints. Consideration of principal arguments in support of the doctrine

LECTURE LXXXII. -- Perseverance of Saints. Perseverance proved

LECTURE LXXXIII. -- Perseverance of Saints. Further objections answered

APPENDIX A A Reply To "Princeton Biblical Repertory"

APPENDIX B Reply to Dr. Duffield

 

Questions on Moral Philosophy

The Prevailing Prayer-Meeting: 1859 in Scotland

The Freeness Of The Gospel1860

Lectures on Theology, Vol. 1 (Previously Unpublished)

LECTURE I, II. ---- INTRODUCTORY. Define the study upon which we are about to enter ---- Some of the requisite personal qualifications for this study ---- Some of the advantages to be derived from the study of Systematic Theology ---- Some things to be avoided ---- Remarks.

LECTURE III. ---- INTRODUCTORY ---- CONSCIOUSNESS AND SENSE. Do we know anything? ---- How do we know ourselves? ---- What do we know of ourselves in consciousness? ---- What is meant by sense?

LECTURE IV. ---- INTRODUCTORY ---- REASON. What we mean by the reason, as distinct from the other functions of the intellect ---- First truths of reason have the following characteristics ---- Examples of some first truths of reason ---- How these truths are developed in the reason ---- Division of first truths of reason ---- Second class of truths of reason -- How this class of truths (second class) is developed in the reason -- Remarks -- Truths of conscience -- How the ideas of conscience are developed.

LECTURE V. -- INTRODUCTORY -- THE UNDERSTANDING, JUDGMENT, AND FREEDOM OF THE WILL. The understanding -- The judgment -- The will.

LECTURE VI. -- INTRODUCTORY -- IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. Argument from consciousness -- Moral argument -- The Bible argument -- Objections.

LECTURE VI--b. -- INTRODUCTORY -- EVIDENCE. The importance of a correct and thorough knowledge of the laws of evidence -- What is evidence and what is proof, and the difference between them -- Source of evidence in a course of theological inquiry -- Kinds and degrees of evidence to be expected -- When objections are not, and when they are fatal -- How objections are to be disposed of -- Where lies the burden of proof -- Where proof or argument must begin.

LECTURE VII. -- THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. Several ways in which God may reveal himself to rational beings -- Two revelations -- What God is as known to us in the irresistible convictions of our minds -- Principle terms to be used in discussion of God's existence -- Some self-evident truths of reason -- Argument for the existence of God -- Argument for the existence of God as Moral Governor.

LECTURE VIII. -- THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (CONTINUED). Argument from final causes; or, from apparent ultimate design -- Facts and self-evident truths -- The following positions are manifest -- Propositions -- Stating the substance of the above propositions in another form -- Argument from consciousness of the existence of God -- First objection -- Second objection -- Method of the natural reason -- Summary remarks.

LECTURE IX. -- THE NATURAL ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. What is a natural attribute? -- What are the natural attributes of God? -- Self-existence -- Immutability -- Absoluteness -- Infinity -- Liberty -- Omniscience -- Omnipotence -- Eternity -- Ubiquity or omnipresence -- Spirituality -- Moral agency -- Unity -- Independence -- Natural perfection.

LECTURE X. -- THE MORAL ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. What is moral character, and what are moral attributes? -- God is morally and infinitely good -- Two objections that have been made to the benevolence of God -- What are the moral attributes of God? -- Justice -- Mercy.

LECTURE XI. -- THE MORAL ATTRIBUTES OF GOD (CONTINUED). Veracity -- Disinterestedness -- Forbearance -- Long--suffering -- Self-denial -- Impartiality -- Beneficence -- Sovereignty.

LECTURE XII. -- THE MORAL ATTRIBUTES OF GOD (CONTINUED). Firmness -- Severity -- Efficiency -- Simplicity -- Immutability -- Infinity -- Holiness -- Remarks.

The Character, Claims and Practical Workings of Freemasonry.--1868

Author's Preface

Contents.

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Scrap of History

Chapter 3: How Known

Chapter 4: Credibility of the Books Revealing Freemasonry

Chapter 5: Examination of the Books Revealing Freemasonry

Chapter 6: Masters Degree

Chapter 7: Royal Arch Degree

Chapter 8: Sworn to Persecute

Chapter 9: Awful Profanity of Masonic Oaths

Chapter 10: Perverse and Profane Use of The Holy Bible

Chapter 11: Freemasonry Imposes on the Ignorant

Chapter 12: Masonry Susceptible of Change Only By Additions

Chapter 13: The Claim of Freemasonry To Great Antiquity Is False

Chapter 14: The Boasted Benevolence Of Masons A Sham

Chapter 15: Freemasonry is a False Religion

Chapter 16: The Argument That Great and Good Men Have Been and Are Freemasons, Examined

Chapter 17: Masonic Oaths Are Unlawful and Void

Chapter 18: Why Freemasons Resort To Threats and Refuse To Discuss Their Principles

Chapter 19: Relations of Masonry to The Church of Christ

Chapter 20: Conclusion

 

Pastoral Theology

I. INTRODUCTORY.

II. RECIPROCAL RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF PASTOR AND FLOCK.

III. LEGITIMATE FIELD OF PASTORAL INFLUENCE.

IV. PASTORAL HABITS OF STUDY.

V. PASTORAL HABITS OF DEVOTION.

VI. PASTORAL HABITS OF BUSINESS.

VII. PAROCHIAL DUTIES (OF OR PERTAINING TO A PARISH).

VIII. PASTORAL MANNERS.

IX. VISITING THE SICK.

X. FUNERALS.

XI. MARRIAGES.

XII. PRUDENCE.

XIII. MARRIAGE OF MINISTERS.

XIV. ATTRIBUTES OF A GOOD WIFE. (ESPECIALLY A MINISTER'S).

XV. PAPISTICAL REASONS FOR PRIESTLY CELIBACY.

XVI. EVILS OF CLERICAL CELIBACY.

XVII. PREMATURE MARRIAGES

XVIII. PREPARATION FOR THE PULPIT.

XIX. PULPIT EXERCISES.

XX. PREACHING.

 

Articles in THE INDEPENDENT 1868-1875

FREEMASONRY--I.

FREEMASONRY--11.

FREEMASONRY--III.

FREEMASONRY--IV.

FREEMASONRY--V.

FREEMASONRY--VI.

FREEMASONRY--VII.

FREEMASONRY--VIII.

FREEMASONRY--IX.

FREEMASONRY--X.

FREEMASONRY--XI.

FREEMASONRY--XII.

PREACHING SO AS TO CONVERT NOBODY

HOW TO WIN SOULS

THE ENDUEMENT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

POWER FROM ON HIGH--WHAT IS IT?

THE ENDUEMENT OF THE SPIRIT

POWER FROM ON HIGH. Who May Expect the Enduement.

ENDUEMENT OF POWER FROM ON HIGH

IS IT A HARD SAYING?

INNOCENT AMUSEMENTS

IS IT A BONDAGE?

WORLDLY AMUSEMENTS

REVIVAL MEMORIES [First of Two]

THE PROGRESS OF THE GOVERNEUR REVIVAL

A MORE EXCELLENT WAY

REVIVAL MEMORIES [Second of Two]

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

THE DECAY OF CONSCIENCE

HOW TO OVERCOME SIN

BREAK UP YOUR FALLOW GROUND

WHEN IS THE FALLOW GROUND OF THE SOUL BROKEN UP?

PREVAILING PRAYER

HINDRANCES TO REVIVALS [Part 1]

HINDRANCES TO REVIVALS [Part 2]

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF FAITH

CONSCIOUS EFFECTS OF FAITH.

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS

PSYCHOLOGY OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS

THE TRUE MISSIONARY SPIRIT

Fashion in The Christian Mission Magazine, 1870

Preacher, Save Thyself

Revivals of Religion Outline: 1874

MEMOIRS of Revivals of Religion: Known as his "Autobiography"

"Revival Fire"

Power From On High

CHAPTER 1 - Power From On High

CHAPTER 2 - What Is It?

CHAPTER 3 - The Enduement Of The Spirit

CHAPTER 4 - Enduement Of Power From On High

CHAPTER 5 - Is It A Hard Saying?

CHAPTER 6 - Prevailing Prayer

CHAPTER 7 - How To Win Souls

CHAPTER 8 - Preacher, Save Thyself

CHAPTER 9 - Innocent Amusements

CHAPTER 10 - How To Overcome Sin

CHAPTER 11 - The Decay Of Conscience

CHAPTER 12 - The Psychology Of Faith

CHAPTER 13 - The Psychology Of Righteousness

1878 Systematic Theology 1878

 

 

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