Chapter III. Sin, Or Man’s State Of Apostasy.

Section I.—The Law Of God. I. Law in General. II. The Law of God in Particular. III. Relation of the Law to the Grace of God. Section II.—Nature Of Sin. I. Definition of Sin. 1. Proof. 2. Inferences. II. The Essential Principle of Sin. 1. Sin as Sensuousness. 2. Sin as Finiteness. 3. Sin as Selfishness. Section III.—Universality Of Sin. I. Every human being who has arrived at moral consciousness has committed acts, or cherished dispositions, contrary to the divine law. II. Every member of the human race, without exception, possesses a corrupted nature, which is a source of actual sin, and is itself sin. Section IV.—Origin Of Sin In The Personal Act Of Adam. I. The Scriptural Account of the Temptation and Fall in Genesis 3:1-7. 1. Its general, character not mythical or allegorical, but historical. 2. The course of the temptation, and the resulting fall. II. Difficulties connected with the Fall considered as the personal Act of Adam. 1. How could a holy being fall? 2. How could God justly permit Satanic temptation? 3. How could a penalty so great be justly connected with disobedience to so slight a command? III. Consequences of the Fall, so far as respects Adam. 1. Death. 2. Positive and formal exclusion from God’s presence. Section V.—Imputation Of Adam’s Sin To His Posterity. I. Theories of Imputation. 1. The Pelagian Theory, or Theory of Man’s natural Innocence. 2. The Arminian Theory, or Theory of voluntarily appropriated Depravity. 3. The New School Theory, or Theory of uncondemnable Vitiosity. 4. The Federal Theory, or Theory of Condemnation by Covenant. 5. Theory of Mediate Imputation, or Theory of Condemnation for Depravity. 6. The Augustinian Theory, or Theory of Adam’s Natural Headship. II.—Objections to the Augustinian Doctrine of Imputation. Section VI.—Consequences Of Sin To Adam’s Posterity. I. Depravity. 1. Depravity partial or total? 2. Ability or inability? II. Guilt. 1. Nature of guilt. 2. Degrees of guilt. III. Penalty. 1. Idea of penalty. 2. The actual penalty of sin. Section VII.—The Salvation Of Infants.