f reasons. (2.) The consummate folly of those who resist
his will. (3.) The feelings with which we ought to regard the
sovereignty of God. 1 Chron. 16:23-31. Ps. 97:1. (4.) How terrible this
doctrine to sinners. Ps. 99:1. Isa. 33:11. (5.) What ground of
confidence, comfort, and joy to the righteous. Ps. 15:6. Hosea 14:9.
Rom. 8:28.
3. _Human Depravity._ (1.) How extensive. Rom. 3:23. Corroborated by
facts. (2.) How great in degree. Gen. 6:5. Rom. 3:10-18. (3.) From whom
derived. Rom. 5:12-19. (4.) How hereditary depravity becomes personal.
Ps. 58:3. (5.) How human depravity manifests itself. Rom. 8:7. John
3:19, 20. 5:40. Acts 7:51. Gal. 5:19-21.
_Practical Reflections._ (1.) How we ought to feel, in view of our own
depravity. Ezra 9:6. Job 42:6. Ps. 38:1-7. 51:4, 17. Dan. 9:8. (2.) The
necessity of regeneration. Heb. 12:14, l.c. (3.) How this load of guilt
may be removed. Matt. 11:28-30. 1 John 2:1, 2. (4.) What it will bring
us to, if we do not obtain deliverance from it. Rom 6:23, f.c.
4. _Regeneration._ (1.) Its nature. 2 Cor. 5:17. Eph. 4:24. (2.) Its
author. John 3:5, 6. (3.) Influence of the Spirit; how exerted; not
miraculous John 3:8. (4.) Man's agency in the work of regeneration. Isa.
55:6, 7. Acts 2:38. 16:31. Phil 2:12, 13.
5. _The condition of fallen man._ (1.) Alienation from God. Job 21:14,
15. Rom. 1:28. Eph. 2:1, 2. (2.) Exposure to his wrath. Deut. 32:35, 41.
Ps. 7:11, 12. John 3:18, 36. Eph. 2:3. (3.) Personal misery. Isa. 57:20,
21. Misery the natural consequence of sin. Jer. 2:19.
_Practical Reflections._ (1.) How Christians should feel, in view of
this subject. Isa. 51:1. 1 Cor. 15:10. (2.) How they should feel, in
view of the condition of the impenitent. Rom. 9:1-3. (3.) How act. Acts
20:31, l.c. Rev. 22:17. (4.) The necessity of a mediator between God and
man. Gal. 3:10.
6. _The plan of Redemption._ (1.) Why sin could not be pardoned without
an atonement. Gen. 2:17. Dent. 27:26, compared with Deut. 32:4, l.c.
Heb. 9:22. (2.) What a mediator is. Job 9:33. 2 Cor. 5:18, 19. (3.) Why
it was necessary that our mediator should be God. (4.) Why, that he
should be also man. (5.) Why it was necessary that he should obey the
law. Isa. 42:21. Gal. 4:4, 5. (6.) Why, that he should suffer. Gal.
3:13. 4:4, 5. Heb. 9:22, 28. (7.) Why, that he should rise from the
dead. Rom. 4:25. 1 Cor. 15:17. 1 Pet. 1:21. Heb. 7:25.
_Practical Reflections._ [1.] How the love of God is manifested in the
provision
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