BY S. S. SCHMUCKER, A. M.

Professor of Theology in the Theol. Sem. of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lu-
theran Church in the United States, Gettysburg, Pa.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

ANDOVER :

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY FLAGG & GOULD,

AT THE CODMAN PRESS.

1826.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

1868, Oct. 5. Join Wilson Beg.

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CONTENTS.

BOOK III.

OF CREATED RATIONAL BEINGS.

PART I. Angels. Connexion of this Part with the preced-

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1. Their existence and attributes-power, moral per-

fection, and happiness, § 48

2. Their destination to the service of God, and spe-

cifically to the promotion of the welfare of men,

§ 49

B. Apostate angels.

1. Their transgression, and consequent fate, § 50 ..

2. Their relation to the human family.-They are

inimical to their moral improvement and happi-

ness. They exerted an injurious influence on

bodies of certain persons in the time of Christ

and the apostles, § 51

Their baneful influence on the moral character of

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man, may be resisted, § 52

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PART II. Of Man.

I. Creation and fall of man.

1. The creation and original state of man, § 53

a) Its effects on our first parents themselves, Illust.

1-3.

P) Its effects on their posterity, Illust. 4 &c.

3. Innate depravity.-Description of it, § 56

-Its consequences.-Of death and the state of ex-

istence which follows it, § 57

-Future punishment of the wicked, and its endless

duration, 58.

II. The provision made by God for the salvation of man.

Christ the Saviour of man, § 59

1. Description of the happiness which is provided for

man through Christ, § 60

a) Happiness immediately after death,

b) Happiness after the resurrection of the body and

the transformation of the earth, together with the

objects connected with it, § 61

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63

73

c) Improvement of the blessed in intellectual and mor-

al perfection, through the influence of Christ and

the circumstances in which they are placed, § 62

d) Different degrees of future happiness, proportion-

ate to the different conduct and the various situa-

tions of mankind in the present life, § 63

e) Their participation in the felicity of Jesus, § 64

2. It is exclusively through Jesus Christ, that we ob-

tain salvation. He, as Lord and Judge, bestowed

on men that salvation which he purchased for

them, § 65

3. This salvation is intended for all men, § 66

-But not all actually obtain it, § 67

Little children also are saved for Christ's sake, § 68

4. Conditions of this salvation, and means to attain it.
a) In general, faithful obedience to the dictates of con-
science, is the condition of salvation, § 69.

b) God, from the beginning, provided for the propa-

gation of saving truth, § 70.

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c) Those persons who have not received a revelation,

and live in strict accordance with the dictates of

conscience, will nevertheless be saved for Christ's

sake, 71

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120

But the salvation of those who have become acquaint-

ed with the revealed will of God, is suspended on

their faithful use of this divine revelation, as mor-

Salvation is not merited by obedience, § 73.

It is not God's fault, that some men fail of salva-

PART I.

A.

Of the person and different states of Christ.

His person.

I. Human nature and supernatural conception of Christ,

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134

II.

He is united with God in the closest manner, § 76,

This close union with the Godhead must be presup-

posed in his exaltation, § 78

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B. Of the states of Christ (status Christi).

I. The object of both his states is the accomplishment

of his appointed work, § 79

II. His state of humiliation.

1. It consisted in a diminished influence of the Logos

165

2. Jesus voluntarily subjected himself to this state, § 81

3. But in this state also, the influence of his higher

nature was manifest, § 82

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III. His state of exaltation.-Resurrection, Ascension

to heaven, and Dominion over all things, § 83

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PART II. Of the works of Christ (his offices).

A. His works during his earthly life-his office as In-