CONTENTS.

PART I.

DIVINE LOVE, ITS CONTRAST, AND THE RECONCILIATION

THEREOF.

SECTION I.

OF PRIMARY LOVE, OR OF GOD AND THE DIVINE IMAGE IMPRESSED

ON MAN AT HIS CREATION.

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I. Of God,

II. Of Creation,

III. Of the Divine Image in Man,

IV. Of the External Circumstances of the First Man,

III. Of natural and revealed Law, its Principle and Extent, and of

the Imputation of Sin through the Law,

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IV. Of the Inability of the natural Free Will to fulfil the Law; of

Susceptibility of Redemption; and how the Law is the Pre-

paration of this Susceptibility, .

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SECTION III.

OF DIVINE RECONCILING LOVE.

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I. Of the Reconciler,

II. Of Reconciliation by the perfect fulfilling of the Law or the

sufficing Sacrifice of the Reconciler,

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III. Of Reception into Communion with the Reconciler by the means

of Grace in the Christian Church,

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IV. Of the Appropriation of the Reconciliation, or of the justifying

Love of God, and of Faith in the same,

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PART II.

OF DIVINE LOVE RENEWING, OBEYING AND PERFECTING.

SECTION I.

OF DIVINE RENEWING LOVE.

Introductory Remarks,

I. Of Love Purifying,

II. Of Love Uniting,

SECTION II.

OF DIVINE LOVE OBEYING.

I. Of Active and Obeying Love,

SECTION III.

I. Of the Patience and Hope of Love in Sufferings and Death,

II. Of Eternal Life, the Last Judgment, and the Victory of Love,

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PART FIRST.

PRIMARY DIVINE LOVE: ITS CONTRAST, AND THE RECONCILIATION OF THAT CONTRAST.

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SECTION I.

OF PRIMARY LOVE, OR OF GOD AND THE DIVINE IMAGE IN WHICH MAN WAS CREATED.

CHAPTER I.

OF GOD.

OD is love; he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him; every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God: for God is love (1 John iv. 7-16; comp. John xiv. 20-24 and xv. 9-12). All the propositions concerning the nature and attributes of God usually explained after long preliminary discussions in theological manuals, with abstract and often merely negative prolixity, are summed up by the apostle in the great saying, God is love, in one living, all-comprising, all-producing idea by which every one who has known and experienced anything of the living power of love-and what human being has not?may know God, and know not only that He is, but also what He is (1 John iv. 7). It becomes evangelical theology to start, not from definitions of its own invention, but from an idea of God given in Holy Scripture, and that not by some prophet of the Old Covenant, but by the apostle and great prophet of the New Testament, by that bosom disciple of Him who is in the bosom of the Father, of the only-begotten Son, who has declared unto us what no eye has seen and no ear heard of God (John i. 18). God is love; this apothegm of the Holy Ghost, in which all theology is enclosed, comes from the