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CONTENTS.

On the nature and design of the Atonement,

On the Atonement in its relation to the Person of the Son

SECT. 1. The personal dignity of Christ,

2. The personal relationship of Christ to mankind,

3. The personal character or the active righteous-

ness of Christ,

4. The personal substitution of Christ,

5. The personal voluntariness of Christ,

6. The personal sufferings of Christ,

CHAPTER III.

On the Atonement in its relation to the perfections of

SECT. 1. The whole character of God concerned in the

On wrong views of the relation between the

Atonement and the divine perfections,

3. The divine perfections honored by the Atone-

4. The extent of the Atonement illustrated by its

relation to the divine attributes,

On the Atonement in its relation to the purposes of God,
SECT. 1. The Atonement the foundation of the divine

4. The extent of the Atonement explained by the

character of the divine purposes,

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

SECT. 1. The constitution of the universe mediatorial,

2. The intelligences of the Universe benefitted by

3. Christ the President of the Universe,

4. The extent of the Atonement illustrated by its

relation to the Universe,

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3. The suspension of a penalty consistent with

public Justice,

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

SECT. 1. All Providence centering in the Atonement,

2. The administration of Providence founded on

3. Providence subservient to the ends of the

4. The administration of the Atonement analo-

gous to that of Providence,

5. A limited Atonement inconsistent with the

Providence of God,

On the Atonement in its relation to the whole system of

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

A limited Atonement inconsistent with the

whole system of divine Truth,

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On the Atonement in its relation to Sin,

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

2. The Atonement substituted instead of the pun-

ishment of Sin,

4. Particular Atonement inconsistent with the

substituted sufferings of Christ,

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,

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

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

2. The influences of the Spirit accessible to all

through the Atonement,

3. The sovereignty of divine influences founded

on the Atonement,

On the Atonement in its relation to the Church,

The designs of the Atonement to be infallibly

secured in some,

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

ests of the Church,

On the Atonement in its relation to the various dispen-

sations of revealed Religion,

The progressiveness of divine Dispensations,

The influence of the Atonement retrospective

as well as prospective,

3. The universality of the Atonement consistent

with the limited promulgation of the Gospel,

On the Atonement in its relation to the eternal State of

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

ness of Heaven,

2. The aspect of the Atonement on the Perdition

On the moral grandeur of the doctrine of the Atonement,

INTRODUCTION

BY REV. DANIEL L. CARROLL,

PAS OR OF THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN 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

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