80

On the Atonement in its relation to the purposes of God,

SECT. 1. The Atonement the foundation of the divine

101

4. The extent of the Atonement explained by the

character of the divine purposes,

CHAPTER V.

On the Atonement in its relation to the works of God,

SECT. 1. The constitution of the universe mediatorial,

107

108

2. The intelligences of the Universe benefitted by

the Atonement,

110

3.

Christ the President of the Universe,

115

4. The extent of the Atonement illustrated by its

relation to the Universe,

119

On the Atonement in its relation to the Providence of God,

SECT. 1. All Providence centering in the Atonement,

152

152

2. The administration of Providence founded on

the Atonement,

-

156

3. Providence subservient to the ends of the

Atonement,

162

4. The administration of the Atonement analo-

gous to that of Providence,

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167

174

5. A limited Atonement inconsistent with the

Providence of God,

CHAPTER VIII.

On the Atonement in its relation to the whole system of

2.

SECT. 1. Every divine Truth related to the Atonement,

A limited Atonement inconsistent with the

whole system of divine Truth,

183

183

195

2. The Atonement substituted instead of the pun-

CHAPTER IX.

On the Atonement in its relation to Sin,

211

SECT. 1. The Atonement a demonstration of the Evil of

Sin,

211

4. Particular Atonement inconsistent with the

substituted sufferings of Christ,

CHAPTER X.

On the Atonement in its relation to the Salvation of the

SECT. 1. The Atonement rendering the Salvation of all

2. The duty of every one who hears the Gospel to

believe that Christ died for him,

CHAPTER XI.

On the Atonement in its relation to the Work of the Holy

SECT. 1. The personal agency of the Holy Spirit in con-

nection with the Atonement,

2. The influences of the Spirit accessible to all

through the Atonement,

275

3. The sovereignty of divine influences founded

on the Atonement,

282

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CHAPTER XII.

On the Atonement in its relation to the Church,

293

SECT. 1.

The designs of the Atonement to be infallibly

secured in some,

293

SECT. 2. The influence of the Atonement on the inter-

ests of the Church,

303

CHAPTER XIII.

On the Atonement in its relation to the various dispen-

sations of revealed Religion,

306

SECT. 1.

2.

The progressiveness of divine Dispensations,

The influence of the Atonement retrospective

as well as prospective,

306

308

3. The universality of the Atonement consistent

with the limited promulgation of the Gospel,

313

CHAPTER XIV.

On the Atonement in its relation to the eternal State of

the Universe,

317

SECT. 1. The influence of the Atonement on the happi-

On the moral grandeur of the doctrine of the Atonement,

328

INTRODUCTION

BY REV. DANIEL L. CARROLL,

PASTOR OF ΤΗΣ FIRST PRESEYTERIAN CHURCH, BROOKLYN, N. Y.

The expiatory sacrifice of the Lord Jesus, when "through the Eternal Spirit he offered himself without spot to God" is a subject whose investigation is destined to engross the interest and tax the talent of the church extensively before her millennium. This is the great centre of that remedial system which God is carrying forward over the moral ruins of our world. "Christ crucified" has been, and ever will be to the end of time the power of God and the wisdom of God to every one that believeth. Contemplating the atonement in that celestial prominence in which the oracles of God have placed it, it seems amazing that the mind of the church should so frequently be diverted from it to subjects merely speculative, or to themes of "doubtful disputation." It is matter of deep regret that the time and thought, the patience and labor, the intellectual acumen and strength which in ages past have been employed on trifles or worse than wasted, had not been concentrated on those wonders of the crucifixion which "angels desire to look into." It is not less a matter of painful surprise and regret that many of the modern in

vestigations respecting the atonement have been conducted with the purpose of limiting its nature and of degrading it to the littleness of a mere commercial transaction. The doctrine which confines the sacrifice of Christ in all its relations to the literal payment of the debt of the elect is, we humbly conceive, highly anti-scriptural and insulting to the Son of God. The influence of this dogma is to embarrass the ministry in the proclamation of mercy-to rob the scheme of redemption of that "glory that excelleth," and to cripple that expansive benevolence which aims at the salvation of the world because it believes that through the blood of Christ's propitiation "the world might be saved." Strange that such a doctrine should be identified, in the minds of some, with the essence of all orthodoxy. But this illusion will not continue long. God, in training the intellect of his church to those views of truth befitting her era of coming glory, will teach it to break over the inclosures which man's wisdom has reared round the atonement, and to contemplate that doctrine in the light of revelation alone, unclouded by human theory. The Church must and will be brought back to primitive conceptions on this great subject. No one who has carefully studied the doctrinal parts of the New Testament, can fail to be convinced that the unparalleled success of the gospel in the first age of Christianity, was greatly owing to the enlarged and exalted views which the apostles entertained of the sacrifice of Christ, as "a propitiation for the sins of the whole world." They felt that they had a remedy to propose for human acceptance amply adequate. to the ruins of the apostacy. They saw in the blood of the cross a balm for the healing of all the nations. This in their minds constituted the great master-thought respecting the atonement. This created that mighty impulse which bore the great apostle of the Gentiles along