or

JAMES ARMINIUS, D. D.,

FORMERLY

PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF LEYDEN.

TRANSLATED FROM THE LATIN,

IN THREE VOLUMES.

THE FIRST AND SECOND

BY JAMES NICHOLS,

AUTHOR OF "CALVINISM AND ARMINIANISM COMPARED IN THEIR PRINCIPLES AND TENDENCY."

THE THIRD,

WITH A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

BY REV. W. R. BAGNALL, A. M.

OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.

VOLUME TWO.

AUBURN:

DERBY, AND MILLER;

BUFFALO:

DERBY, ORTON AND MULLIGAN.

1853.

LIBRARY OF THE

LELAND STANFORD JR. UNIVERSITY.

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CONTENTS.

SEVENTY-NINE PRIVATE DISPTATIONS..

1-On Theology.

2-On the Manner in which Theology must be taught.

3-On blessedness, the End of Theology..

4-On Religion....

5-On the rule of Religion, the Word of God, and the Scriptures in particular.

8-On the perspicuity of the Scriptures.

9-On the meanings and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures.

10-On the efficacy of the Scriptures..

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11-On Religion in a stricter sense..

12-On the Christian Religion, its name and relation..

13-On the Christian Religion, with regard to the matter generally,

14-On the object of the Christian Religion: and, First, about God, its primary object,

and what God is.

15-On the nature of God.

16-On the Life of God.

17-On the understanding of God.

18-On the Will of God.

19-On the varicus distinctions of the Will of God..

20-On the attributes of God which come to be considered under his Will; and, First, on
those which have an analogy to the affections or passions in rational creatures...

21-On those attributes of God which have some analogy to the moral virtues, and which

act like moderators of the affections considered in the preceding disputation....

22-On the power of God....

23-On the perfection, blessedness and glory of God..

24-On Creation...

25-On Angels in general and in particular..

26-On the creation of man after the image of God.

27-On the Lordship or dominion of God..

2-On the Providence of God..........

29-On the covenant into which God entered with our first Parents.

3-The manner in which man conducted himself in fulfilling the first Covenant, or on the

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37-On the regal office of Christ..

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33-On the states of Christ's humiliation and exaltation.

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39-On the Will and Command of God the Father, and of Christ, by which they will and

command that religion be performed to them by sinful man..

42-On the yocation of sinful Men to Christ, and to a participation of Salvation in him,.. 104

43-On the Repentance by which men answer to the Divine Vocation,.

44-On Faith in God and Christ...

46-On the communion of believers with Christ, and particularly with his Death.............

47-On the Communion of Believers with Christ in regard to his Life..

48-On Justification

50-On the Church of God and of Christ; Or, on the church in general after the Fall.... 122