CHAPTER VIII: SIN.

COVENANT OF WORKS.
§ 1. God made a Covenant with Adam 117
§ 2. The Promise 118
§ 3. The Condition 119
§ 4. The Penalty 120
§ 5. The Parties 121
§ 6. The Perpetuity of the Covenant 122

SIN.
§ 1. Nature of the Question 130
§ 2. Philosophical Theories 132

Limitation of Being. -- Leibnitz's Theory. -- Antagonism. --
Schleiermacher's Theory. -- The Sensuous Theory. -- Selfishness
144
Theological Theories.
§ 3. Doctrine of the Early Church 150
§ 4. Pelagian Theory 152
Arguments against it 155
§ 5. Augustine's Doctrine 157

Philosophical Element of his Doctrine. -- Why he made Sin a Negation.
-- The Moral Element of his Doctrine
159
§ 6. Doctrine of the Church of Rome 164

Diversity of Doctrine in the Latin Church. -- Semi-Pelagian. -- Anselm. -- Abelard. -- Thomas Aquinas. -- The Scotists 173

Tridentine Doctrine on Original Sin
174

The true Doctrine of the Church of Rome
177
§ 7. Protestant Doctrine of Sin 180

Sin a specific Evil. -- Has relation to Law. -- That Law the Law of God. -- Extent of the Law's Demands. -- Sin not confined to Acts of the Will. -- Consists in want of Conformity to the Law of God. -- Includes Guilt and Pollution 188 § 8. Effects of Adam's Sin on his Posterity 192 § 9. Immediate Imputation 192

Statement of the Doctrine. -- Ground of the Imputation of Adam's Sin. -- Adam the Federal Head of his Race. -- The Representative Principle in the Scriptures. -- This Principle involved in other Doctrines. -- Argument from Romans v. 12-21. -- From General Consent. -- Objections 204 § 10. Mediate Imputation 205

Origin of the Doctrine in the French Church . -- Held by Theologians in other Churches. -- Objections. -- Theory of Propagation 214 § 11. Preëxistence 214 § 12 Realistic Theory 216

President Edwards' Theory. -- Proper Realistic Theory. -- Objections
219
§ 13. Original Sin 227

Its Nature. -- Proof of the Doctrine. -- From the Universality of Sin. -- From the entire Sinfulness of Man. -- From the incorrigible Nature of Sin. -- From its early Manifestations. -- Evasions of the foregoing Arguments. -- Declarations of Scripture. -- Argument from the necessity of Redemption. -- From the necessity of Regeneration. -- From Infant Baptism.-- From the Universality of Death. --From the common Consent of Christians 241

Objections. --Men responsible only for Voluntary Acts. -- Inconsistent with the justice of God. -- Makes God the Author of Sin. -- Inconsistent with Free Agency 254 § 14. Seat of Original Sin 254

The whole Soul its Seat
255
§ 15. Inability 257

Doctrine as stated in the Protestant Symbols. -- The Nature of the
Sinner's Inability
260

Inability not mere Disinclination.-- Arises from the want of Spiritual Discernment. -- Asserted only in reference to "Things of the Spirit." -- In what sense Natural. -- In what sense Moral. -- Objections to the popular Distinction between Natural and Moral Ability 265

Proof of the Doctrine
267

The Negative Argument. -- Involved in the Doctrine of Original Sin. -- Argument from the Necessity of the Spirit's Influence.--From Experience. -- Objections. --Inconsistent with Moral Obligation. -- Destroys the Motives to Exertion. -- Encourages Delay 276