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.

CONTENTS.

BOOK III.

OF CREATED RATIONAL BEINGS.

PART I. Angels. Connexion of this Part with the preced-
ing, § 47

A. Good angels.

PART II. Of Man.

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,

§ 49

B. Apostate angels.

1. Their transgression, and consequent fate, § 50 .

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

Their baneful influence on the moral character of

man, may be resisted, § 52

1. Creation and fall of man.

1. The creation and original state of man, § 53

2. The fall of our first parents.

a) Its history, § 54

b) Consequences of the fall, § 55

a) Its effects on our first parents themselves, Illust.

1-3.

P) 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.

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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