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Title: The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election

Author: Robert Wallace

Release Date: February 17, 2009 [EBook #28103]

Language: English

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EVANGELICAL UNION DOCTRINAL SERIES.

(_FIFTH ISSUE_.)

THE DOCTRINES

OF

PREDESTINATION, REPROBATION, AND ELECTION.

_EVANGELICAL UNION DOCTRINAL SERIES._

_The following Volumes of the Series are now ready,

Price is. 6d. each:_--

REGENERATION: Its Conditions and Methods. By the Rev. ROBERT
CRAIG, M.A.

THE FATHERHOOD OF GOD. By the Rev. ROBERT MITCHELL.

THE HOLY SPIRIT'S WORK: Its Nature and Extent. By the Rev. GEORGE
CRON.

THE NATURE OF THE ATONEMENT. By the Rev. WILLIAM ADAMSON, D.D.

_OTHERS IN PREPARATION._

THE DOCTRINES

OF

PREDESTINATION, REPROBATION,

AND ELECTION.

BY

ROBERT WALLACE,

_Pastor of Cathcart Road E. U. Church, Glasgow._

LONDON: HAMILTON, ADAMS, & CO.

GLASGOW: THOMAS D. MORISON.

1880.

PREFACE.

WERE a number of shipwrecked mariners cast upon an island, one of
their first inquiries would be, Is it inhabited? Having observed
footmarks upon the sand, and other tokens of man's presence, another
question would be, What is the character of the people? Are they
anthropophagi, or are they of a friendly disposition? The importance
of such questions would be realised by all. Their lives might depend
upon the answer to the latter.

We look around upon the universe, and everywhere observe marks of
design, or the adapation of means to ends. The conviction gathers
upon us with deepening power, that there must have been a supreme
intelligence arranging the forces of nature. If I throw the dice box
twenty times, and the same numbers always turn up, I cannot resist
the conclusion that the dice must have been loaded. The application
is simple. But, as in the case of the mariners, a second question
arises, viz.:--What is the character of the Being revealed in
natur