WORD REPROBATION.

CHAPTER III.

PROOF-TEXTS FOR CALVINISTIC REPROBATION EXAMINED.

CHAPTER IV.

OBJECTIONS TO CALVINISTIC REPROBATION.

CHAPTER V.

SUMMARY OF THE BIBLE DOCTRINE OF REPROBATION.

_PART III.--ELECTION._

CHAPTER I.

THEORIES OF CALVINISTIC ELECTION.

CHAPTER II.

CALVINISTIC ELECTION INVOLVES POSITIVE REFUSAL TO PROVIDE SAVING
GRACE FOR THE LOST.

CHAPTER III.

CALVINISTIC ELECTION CONSIDERED IN REFERENCE TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF
GOD.

CHAPTER IV.

CALVINISTIC ELECTION JUDGED BY THE REASON.

CHAPTER V.

BIBLE TEXTS IN PROOF OF CALVINISTIC ELECTION CONSIDERED.

CHAPTER VI.

OBJECTIONS TO THE CALVINISTIC DOCTRINE OF ELECTION.

CHAPTER VII.

THE SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF EVANGELICAL ELECTION.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only beloved Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting
life.--_Jesus._

I reject the Calvinistic doctrine of Predestination, not because it
is incomprehensible, but because I think it irreconcilable with the
justice and goodness of God.--_Bishop Tomlin._

God our Saviour will have all men to be saved.--_Paul._

THE DOCTRINES

OF

PREDESTINATION, REPROBATION, AND ELECTION.

INTRODUCTION.

REGARDING the predestinarian controversy, it has been said, "Hardly
one among the many Christian controversies has called forth a
greater amount of subtlety and power, and not one so long and so
persistently maintained its vitality. Within the twenty-five years
which followed its first appearance upwards of thirty councils (one
of them the General Council of Ephesus) were held for the purpose of
this discussion. It lay at the bottom of all the intellectual
activity of the conflicts in the Mediaeval philosophic schools; and
there is hardly a single subject which has come into discussion
under so many different forms in modern controversy" (_Ch. Encyc_.)

Although the controversy between Pelagius and Augustine began in the
fifth century, it is an interesting inquiry--What was the mind of
the earlier Christian writers on the subject? Of course their
opinion cannot settle the truth of the question in debate, but it
has a very important bearing upon the subject. The late Dr. Eadie
claimed the voice of antiquity for the system of the Confession of
Faith. He says, "The doctrine of predestination was held in its
leading element by the ancient Church, by the Roman Clement,
Ignatius, Hermas, Justin Martyr, an