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BY S. S. SCHMUCKER, A. M.
Professor of Theology in the Theol. Sem. of the General Synod of the Evangelical Lu- theran Church in the United States, Gettysburg, Pa.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
ANDOVER:
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY FLAGG & GOULD,
AT THE CODMAN PRESS.
1826.
LACK LIGRAP
NEW YORK
CONTENTS.
BOOK III.
OF CREATED RATIONAL BEINGS.
PART I. Angels. Connexion of this Part with the preced-
ing, § 47.
A. Good angels.
1. Their existence and attributes-power, moral per-
fection, and happiness, § 48
2. Their destination to the service of God, and spe- cifically to the promotion of the welfare of men,
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1. Their transgression, and consequent fate, § 50 . 17
2. Their relation to the human family.-They are
inimical to their moral improvement and happi-
ness. They exerted an injurious influence on
bodies of certain persons in the time of Christ
and the apostles, § 51.
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Their baneful influence on the moral character of
man, may be resisted, § 52
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PART II. Of Man.
I. Creation and fall of man.
1. The creation and original state of man, § 53
b) Consequences of the fall, § 55
a) Its effects on our first parents themselves, Illust.
1-3.
6) Its effects on their posterity, Illust. 4 &c.
3. Innate depravity.-Description of it, § 56
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-Its consequences. Of death and the state of ex-
istence which follows it, § 57
-Future punishment of the wicked, and its endless
duration, § 58
II. The provision made by God for the salvation of man.
Christ the Saviour of man, § 59 .
1. Description of the happiness which is provided for
man through Christ, § 60
a) Happiness immediately after death,
b) Happiness after the resurrection of the body and
the transformation of the earth, together with the
objects connected with it, § 61
c) Improvement of the blessed in intellectual and mor-
al perfection, through the influence of Christ and
the circumstances in which they are placed, § 62
d) Different degrees of future happiness, proportion-
ate to the different conduct and the various situa-
tions of mankind in the present life, § 63
e) Their participation in the felicity of Jesus, § 64
2. It is exclusively through Jesus Christ, that we ob-
tain salvation. He, as Lord and Judge, bestowed
on men that salvation which he purchased for
them, § 65
3. This salvation is intended for all men, § 66
-But not all actually obtain it, § 67
Little children also are saved for Christ's sake, § 68
4. Conditions of this salvation, and means to attain it. a) In general, faithful obedience to the dictates of con- science, is the condition of salvation, § 69.
b) God, from the beginning, provided for the propa-
gation of saving truth, § 70. .
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c) Those persons who have not received a revelation,
and live in strict accordance with the dictates of
conscience, will nevertheless be saved for Christ's
sake, § 71
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