CHAPTER I: PLAN OF SALVATION.

FREE AGENCY.
§ 1. Different Theories of the Will 280

Necessity. -- Contingency. -- Certainty
284
§ 2. Definition of Terms 288

Will. -- Motive. -- Cause. -- Liberty. -- Liberty and Ability.-- Se1fdetermination and Self-determination of the Will 294 § 3. Certainty consistent with Liberty 295

Points of Agreement. -- Arguments for the Doctrine of Certainty. -- From the Foreknowledge of God. -- From Foreordination. -- From Providence. -- From the Doctrines of Grace. -- From Consciousness. -- From the Moral Character of Volitions. -- From the Rational Nature of Man. -- From the Doctrine of Sufficient Cause 306 PART III. SOTERIOLOGY.

PLAN OF SALVATION.
§ 1. God has such a Plan 313

Importance of knowing it. -- Means of knowing it
315
§ 2. Supralapsarianism 316
§ 3. Infralapsarianism 319
§ 4. Hypothetical Redemption 321

Objections to that Scheme
323
§ 5. The Lutheran Doctrine as to the Plan of Salvation 324
§ 6. The Remonstrant Doctrine 327
§ 7. The Wesleyan Doctrine 329
§ 8. The Augustinian Doctrine 331

Preliminary Remarks. -- Statement of the Doctrine. -- Proof of the
Doctrine
334

Argument from the Facts of Providence. -- From the Facts of Scripture 339

The Relation of God to his Rational Creatures. -- Man a Fallen Race. -- Work of the Spirit. -- Election is to Holiness. -- Gratuitous Nature of Salvation. -- Paul's Argument in the Ninth Chapter of Romans. -- Argument from Experience 344

Express Declarations of Scripture. -- The Words of Jesus 346 § 9. Objections to the Augustinian Doctrine 349

The Objections shown to bear against the Providence of God. -- Founded on our Ignorance. -- Same Objections urged against the Teachings of the Apostles 352