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Systematic Theology (Volume 3 of 3)

Augustus Hopkins Strong · Public domain text

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Author
Augustus Hopkins Strong (1836–1921)
Language
English
Subjects
Theology, Doctrinal, Baptists › Doctrines
Length
285,274 words · about 19 h 59 min
Sections
100 reader sections · Table of contents
Contents (100)
  1. Opening about 12 min
  2. I. Election under 1 min
  3. 1. Proof of the Doctrine of Election about 21 min
  4. 2. Objections to the Doctrine of Election about 18 min
  5. II. Calling about 2 min
  6. A. Is God’s general call sincere? about 3 min
  7. B. Is God’s special call irresistible? about 9 min
  8. I. Union with Christ about 2 min
  9. 1. Scripture Representations of this Union about 11 min
  10. 2. Nature of this Union about 15 min
  11. 3. Consequences of this Union as respects the Believer about 24 min
  12. II. Regeneration about 4 min
  13. 1. Scripture Representations about 8 min
  14. 2. Necessity of Regeneration about 9 min
  15. 3. The Efficient Cause of Regeneration about 20 min
  16. 4. The Instrumentality used in Regeneration about 9 min
  17. 5. The Nature of the Change wrought in Regeneration about 19 min
  18. III. Conversion about 10 min
  19. 1. Repentance about 16 min
  20. 2. Faith about 44 min
  21. IV. Justification about 2 min
  22. 2. Proof of the Doctrine of Justification about 17 min
  23. 3. Elements of Justification about 15 min
  24. 4. Relation of Justification to God’s Law and Holiness about 17 min
  25. 6. Relation of Justification to Faith about 16 min
  26. I. Sanctification about 7 min
  27. 2. Explanations and Scripture Proof about 15 min
  28. 3. Erroneous Views refuted by these Scripture Passages about 22 min
  29. II. Perseverance about 2 min
  30. 1. Proof of the Doctrine of Perseverance about 4 min
  31. 2. Objections to the Doctrine of Perseverance about 8 min
  32. I. The Constitution Of The Church. Or Church Polity about 24 min
  33. II. Organization of the Church about 10 min
  34. 2. The nature of this organization about 11 min
  35. 3. The genesis of this organization about 8 min
  36. III. Government of the Church about 38 min
  37. 2. Officers of the Church about 7 min
  38. B. The duties belonging to these offices about 8 min
  39. C. Ordination of officers about 6 min
  40. (b) Who are to ordain? about 13 min
  41. 3. Discipline of the Church about 8 min
  42. IV. Relation of Local Churches to one another about 8 min
  43. II. The Ordinances Of The Church about 3 min
  44. I. Baptism under 1 min
  45. 1. Baptism an Ordinance of Christ about 7 min
  46. 2. The Mode of Baptism under 1 min
  47. A. The command to baptize is a command to immerse about 25 min
  48. 3. The Symbolism of Baptism under 1 min
  49. A. Expansion of this statement as to the symbolism of baptism about 7 min
  50. B. Inferences from the passages referred to about 9 min
  51. 4. The Subjects of Baptism about 19 min
  52. C. Infant Baptism about 4 min
  53. (b) Infant baptism is expressly contradicted about 12 min
  54. (e) The lack of agreement among pedobaptists about 3 min
  55. (f) The evil effects of infant baptism about 6 min
  56. II. The Lord’s Supper about 1 min
  57. 1. The Lord’s Supper an ordinance instituted by Christ about 2 min
  58. 2. The Mode of administering the Lord’s Supper about 8 min
  59. 3. The Symbolism of the Lord’s Supper under 1 min
  60. A. Expansion of this statement about 5 min
  61. B. Inferences from this statement about 4 min
  62. 4. Erroneous views of the Lord’s Supper about 10 min
  63. B. The Lutheran and High Church view about 4 min
  64. 5. Prerequisites to Participation in the Lord’s Supper about 4 min
  65. First,—Regeneration about 1 min
  66. Secondly,—Baptism about 6 min
  67. Thirdly,—Church membership about 2 min
  68. Fourthly,—An orderly walk about 11 min
  69. E. Special objections to open communion about 10 min
  70. VIII. ESCHATOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF FINAL THINGS about 6 min
  71. I. Physical Death about 7 min
  72. 1. Upon rational grounds about 24 min
  73. 2. Upon scriptural grounds about 24 min
  74. II. The Intermediate State about 18 min
  75. III. The Second Coming of Christ about 5 min
  76. 1. The nature of this coming about 3 min
  77. 2. The time of Christ’s coming about 9 min
  78. 3. The precursors of Christ’s coming about 10 min
  79. 4. Relation of Christ’s second coming to the millennium about 15 min
  80. IV. The Resurrection about 7 min
  81. 1. The exegetical objection about 7 min
  82. 2. The scientific object about 16 min
  83. V. The Last Judgment about 3 min
  84. 1. The nature of the final judgment about 4 min
  85. 2. The object of the final judgment about 8 min
  86. 3. The Judge in the final judgment about 2 min
  87. 4. The subjects of the final judgment about 1 min
  88. 5. The grounds of the final judgment about 3 min
  89. VI. The Final States of the Righteous and of the Wicked about 9 min
  90. (a) Is heaven a place, as well as a state? about 3 min
  91. (b) Is this earth to be the heaven of the saints? about 3 min
  92. 2. Of the wicked about 7 min
  93. A. The future punishment of the wicked is not annihilation about 1 h 12 min
  94. INDEXES under 1 min
  95. Index Of Subjects about 2 h 17 min
  96. Index Of Authors about 55 min
  97. Index Of Scripture Texts about 46 min
  98. Index Of Apocryphal Texts about 1 min
  99. Index Of Greek Words about 7 min
  100. Index Of Hebrew Words about 2 min

The opening of 1. Proof of the Doctrine of Election

A. From Scripture.

We here adopt the words of Dr. Hovey: “The Scriptures forbid us to find the reasons for election in the moral action of man before the new birth, and refer us merely to the sovereign will and mercy of God; that is, they teach the doctrine of personal election.” Before advancing to the proof of the doctrine itself, we may claim Scriptural warrant for three preliminary statements (which we also quote from Dr. Hovey), namely:

First, that “God has a sovereign right to bestow more grace upon one subject than upon another,—grace being unmerited favor to sinners.”

Mat. 20:12‐15—“These last have spent but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us.... Friend, I do thee no wrong.... Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own?” Rom. 9:20, 21—“Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus? Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?”

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