044. QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 19.

QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 19.

1. Has there been much diversity of sentiment in the Church relative to the extent of the atonement?

2. Into what two great parties have Christians been divided on this subject?

3. Why should caution and forbearance be exercised on this subject?

4. Has this controversy always been conducted in a proper spirit?

5. What is the view of Arians, Socinians, etc., in reference to the extent of the atonement?

6. What peculiar view is taken by a certain class of Universalists?

7. Upon what false assumption is this scheme based?

8. Has the same view of the nature of atonement been adopted by any others?

9. Do the Scriptures present the atonement in the light of a commercial transaction?

10. In what light, then?

11. To admit this view of the nature of atonement, would the salvation of all for whom it was made necessarily follow?

12. What, then, would be the controversy between Calvinists and Universalists?

13. How is this scheme refuted?

14. In what great question is embraced the substance of the controversy between Calvinists and Arminians?

15. What are the three different views taken by Calvinists on this subject?

16. Is there any essential difference in these schemes on the subject of the main question?

17. What distinguished divines are mentioned as having advocated the latter?

18. How have Calvinists endeavored to justify themselves in offering salvation to all?

19. Have they in this way successfully vindicated their consistency?

20. What does Mr. Baxter mean by the phrase “sufficient grace”?

21. What does Dr. Hill mean by moral inability, and by the revealed and the secret will of God?