CONTENTS. Not proved from the form of baptism, or the Apostolic benediction The term Father co-extensive with the word God, not the name of Page. What election is consistent with God's character and dealings What is it 218 Common doctrine according to the Creeds Passive regeneration a libel on the character of God What action of God on the mind consistent with accountability Passive regeneration makes preaching a mockery Founded on a perversion of Scripture What regeneration is Attempts to crush Unitarianism by denunciation. Presbyterians act on the same principle with the Catholics, whom HOW DOES A MAN BECOME A CHRISTIAN. Best illustrated by its opposite, how a man becomes a heathen in Revivals The Apostles', the Nicene, and the Athanasian Creeds, show the LECTURE I. THE SUPREMACY AND SOLE DIVINITY OF GOD THE FATHER. FOR THOUGH THERE BE THAT ARE CALLED GODS, WHETHER IN HEAVEN OR IN EARTH (AS THERE BE GODS MANY, AND LORDS MANY); BUT TO US THERE IS ONE GOD, THE FATHER. It was asked of our Saviour on a certain occasion, "Which is the first commandment of all?" in modern phrase, What is the most important fundamental principle of religion? He answered, "Hear, O Israel; the Lord your God is one Lord." Or, as it stands out in greater distinctness and sublimity in the Hebrew original of Moses, "Hear, O Israel; Jehovah your God, Jehovah is one." He laid the foundation of religion in the Unity of God. His heaven-inspired mind saw more clearly than we can do, the dependence of the purity and integrity of religion on the recognition of one undivided Object of religious worship and affection. We, who see but in part, can perceive the same truth only through the 'medium of past experience. That has ever vindicated the transcendent wisdom of our Master. For there |