CHAPTER III: THE PERSON OF CHRIST.
COVENANT OF GRACE.
§ 1. The Plan of Salvation is a Covenant 354
§ 2. Different Views of the Nature of that Covenant 355
Pelagian View. -- Remonstrant View. -- Wesleyan Arminian View. --
Lutheran View. -- Augustinian Doctrine
356
§ 3. Parties to the Covenant 357
Distinction between the Covenant of Redemption and the Covenant of
Grace
358
§ 4. Covenant of Redemption 359
§ 5. Covenant of Grace 362
§ 6. Identity of the Covenant under all Dispensations 366
Promise of Eternal Life made before the Advent of Christ. -- Christ the Redeemer under all Dispensations. -- Faith the Condition of Salvation from the Beginning 371 § 7. Different Dispensations 373
From Adam to Abraham. -- Abraham to Moses.--Moses to Christ. -- The
Gospel Dispensation
378
THE PERSON OF CHRIST.
§ 1. Preliminary Remarks 378
§ 2. Scriptural Facts concerning the Person of Christ 380
He is truly Man. -- He is truly God. -- He is one Person Proof of the Doctrine. -- Proof' of the several Points separately. -- From the current Representations of Scripture. -- From particular Passages of Scripture. -- St. John's Gospel i. 1-14 -- 1 John i. 1-3. -- Romans i. 2-5. -- 1 Timothy iii. 16. -- Philippians ii. 6-11. -- Hebrews ii. 14 384 § 3. The Hypostatical Union 387
Two Natures in Christ. -- Meaning of the Word Nature. -- Two Natures united but not confounded. -- The Attributes of one Nature not transferred to the other. -- The Union is a Personal Union 390 § 4. Consequences of the Hypostatical Union 392
Communion of Attributes. -- The Acts of Christ. -- The Man Christ Jesus the Object of Worship. -- Christ can sympathize with his People. -- The Incarnate Logos the Source of Life. -- The Exaltation of the Human Nature of Christ 397 § 5.
Erroneous Doctrines on the Person of Christ. -- Ebionites. -- Gnostics.
-- Apollinarian Doctrine. -- Nestcrianism. -- Eutychianism. --
Monothelite Controversy
404
§ 6. Doctrine of the Reformed Churches 405
§ 7. Lutheran Doctrine 407
Different Views among the Lutherans. -- Remarks on the Lutheran
Doctrine
418
§ 8. Later Forms of the Doctrine 418
Socinianism. -- Swedenborg. -- Dr. Isaac Watts. -- Objections to Dr.
Watts' Theory
427
§ 9. Modern Forms of the Doctrine 428
Pantheistical Christology. -- Theistical Christology. -- The Doctrine
of Kenosis. -- Ebrard
434
Gess
435
Remarks on the Doctrine of Kenosis
437
Schleiermacher's Christology
441
Objections to Schleiermacher's Theory. -- Founded on Pantheistical Principles. -- Involves Rejection of the Doctrine of the Trinity. -- False Anthropology. -- Perverts the Plan of Salvation 450
