What is included in believing in or on Christ? ..ib. 1. Of the divine dignity of Christ's person,...25 2. Reality and design of his incarnation,. 1. Knowledge must arise from, or be founded 2. In the Bible there is nothing written re- specting the spiritual state and eternal 3. "Appropriating act of faith"-" that Christ is mine"-as used, the systems of theo- First-Saving faith must be the belief of Secondly-To believe that Christ is mine must be the same thing as believing that I am Thirdly-That Christ is theirs in offer- 1. As it respects state or legal sentence, that is, as it respects justification,. 2. As it respects spiritual character,. 3. As it regards future prospects,. Distinction between full assurance of faith, THE SAME THINGS FROM WHICH THIS KNOW- LEDGE IS SCRIPTURALLY DERIVED, SERVE First-Are you sure your confidence is rest- ing on the true foundation?.... Secondly Is your confidence humble?. First-Remember that the exercise of your affections towards Christ is not to be your justifying righteousness,. Secondly-Never think of yourselves that you .ib. Thirdly-How is it that the affections are to be excited and maintained in lively ex- Page. The ground of forgivenes-THE ATONEMENT OF CHRIST,.. Extent of the atonement,. ....152 .156 Five objections to a limited atonement,. .157 1. It is irreconcilable with any correct and consistent views of the infinite work of the Redeemer's sacrifice,... ...ib. 2. If limited, then the perdition or eternal suffering of all mankind, would have been a greater manifestation of the divine righteousness and abhorrence of sin than the sufferings of the Son of God,. ..ib. 3. The hypothesis renders the salvation of any besides the elect naturally impossible,.... ...ib. 4. Difficult to vindicate in any way the sincerity of those divine addresses by which sinners universally are called upon to believe and be saved,. .....158 5. It takes nothing into the account but the desert of the sinner,. ....... CHIEF TOPIC OF THE ESSAY, VIZ. THE PER SONS BY WHOM FORGIVENESS IS POSSESS- Scheme of Thomas Erskine stated,. ....... .... 163 .ib. .167 Scripture the only legitimate source of proof,. 164 1. Let our object be, to ascertain the real extent of the doctrine of universal forgiveness,.. 2. It follows from the universality of pardon, that the possession of forgiveness is entirely independent of faith, of confession, of repentance, or turning to God,..168 First-Scripture examined as to pardon being independent of faith,.. Secondly-Scripture examined as to univer ...ib. Page. ...171 sal forgiveness being independent of confession,.... Thirdly-Scripture examined as to forgiveness being irrespective of repentance or turning to God,. ..ib. 173 3. Another consequence of universal pardon is, that it is needless and preposterous to pray for forgiveness,.... 4. Another consequence, of universal pardon admitted and defended, is, that the only sin by which men can be brought into final condemnation is unbelief,......176 First-How comes it that this greatest sin forms an exception to the act of universal indemnity?. Secondly-What becomes of previous unbelief when a man receives the Gospel,. Thirdly-How are we to dispose of the state 177 .ib. 178 of the Heathen,.... Fourthly The doctrine, that unbelief is the only sin which brings upon man the condemnation of the second death, is in opposition to the word of God,.........179 5. The doctrine of imputation considered as bearing on the argument, and 2 Cor. v. 19, considered,. .182 First-There must be the same extent of meaning in the two expressions “reconciling the world unto himself," and "not imputing their trespasses unto them,"....ib. Secondly-This passage to be interpreted in harmony with the scripture,.. 6. They say, that although the pardon exists, the benefit of it is not enjoyed by the sinner, unless he believes in it,. 7. But connecting pardon with believing has been represented as making faith a .183 .184 |