Christian Classics
‹ Doctrinal Theology
Contents
Preface to Reprint Edition.Introduction§ 2. Meaning of the terms, Natural and Revealed.§ 3. Religion, True and False.§ 4. Revelation, — not Reason, nor Tradition.§ 5 Excursus. Concerning the Use of Reason in Theology.§ 6. Of the terms, Holy Scriptures and Inspiration.§ 7. The Attributes of the Holy Scriptures§ 8. (1.) Authority.§ 9. (2.) Perfection, or Sufficiency.§ 10. (3.) Perspicuity.§ 11. (4.) Efficacy.§ 12. Of the Canon and the Apocryphal Books.§ 13. What are Articles of Faith?Part I. Of God.§ 15. Preliminary Statement.§ 16. (1). The Certainty of the Divine Existence.§ 17. (2). The Essence of God.§ 18. (3.) The Attributes of God.§ 19. The Doctrine is a Mystery. · Part 1§ 19. The Doctrine is a Mystery. · Part 2§ 19. The Doctrine is a Mystery. · Part 3§ 20. Creation a Divine Work.§ 21. The Doctrine taught by both Reason and Revelation.§ 22. When were they created?Part II. Of Man.§ 24. State of Integrity Defined.Chapter II. Of the State of Corruption.§ 25. Of Sin in General§ 26. Man’s First Transgression, and the State thereby produced. viz., Original Sin.§ 27. Of Actual Sins.§ 28. The Freedom of the Will.Part III. Of the Sources of Salvation.§ 30. Benevolence of God.Note 13.§ 31. Statement of the Subject.§ 32. Of the Personal Union.§ 33. Continuation. · Part 1§ 34. The Threefold Office of Christ.§ 36. The Sacerdotal Office. · Part 1§ 36. The Sacerdotal Office. · Part 2§ 36. The Sacerdotal Office. · Part 3§ 37. The Regal Office.§ 38. · Part 1§ 38. · Part 2§ 38. · Part 3§ 39. Preliminary Remarks.§ 40. The Agent, the Means, the Result.§ 41. I. Faith.§ 42. (2) Justification.§ 43. Concomitants and Consequences of Justifying Faith.§ 44. (1.) Vocation.§ 45. (2.) Illumination.§ 46. Regeneration and Conversion.§ 47. (4.) The Mystical Union.§ 48. (5.) Of Renovation.§ 49. Of Good Works.Part IV. Of the Means of Grace.§ 51. The Efficacy of the Word of God.§ 52. The Law and the Gospel.§ 53. Of the Sacraments in General.§ 54. Of Baptism.§ 55. (2.) The Lord’s Supper. · Part 1§ 55. (2.) The Lord’s Supper. · Part 2§ 55. (2.) The Lord’s Supper. · Part 3§ 56. Of the Church [1] in a Wider and a Narrower Sense.§ 57. The Church, Collective and Representative.§ 58. Of the Three Estates in the Church.§ 59. 1. Of the Ecclesiastical Estate, the Ministry.§ 60. 2. Of the Political Estate; [1] The Civil Authority.§ 61. 3. The Domestic Estate.§ 62. Preliminary Statement.§ 63. (1.) Of Death.§ 64. (2.) Of the Resurrection of the Dead.§ 65. (3.) Of the Final Judgment.§ 66. (4.) Of the End of the World.§ 67. (5.) Of Eternal Damnation and Eternal Life.Appendix I. Sketch of the Dogmaticians Cited.

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§ 16. (1). The Certainty of the Divine Existence.

§ 16. (1). The Certainty of the Divine Existence.

Although the divine existence is postulated in the natural human consciousness, which furnishes many proofs of it, [1] yet we become perfectly certain of it only through revelation. [2]