Charles G. Finney's Systematic Theology--1878 EDITION

LECTURE 31 NATURAL ABILITY We next proceed to the examination of the question of man's ability or inability to obey the commandments of God. This certainly must be a fundamental…

LECTURE 32 GRACIOUS ABILITY Grace is unmerited favor. Its exercise consists in bestowing that which, without a violation of justice, might be withheld. Ability to obey God, as we have…

LECTURE 33 THE NOTION OF INABILITY I have represented ability, or the freedom of the will, as a first truth of consciousness, a truth necessarily known to all moral agents.…

LECTURE 34 REPENTANCE AND IMPENITENCE In the discussion of this subject I shall show: What repentance is not. 1. The Bible everywhere represents repentance as a virtue, and as constituting…

LECTURE 35 FAITH AND UNBELIEF What evangelical faith is not. 1. The term faith, like most other words, has diverse significations, and is manifestly used in the Bible sometimes to…

LECTURE 36 JUSTIFICATION Christ is represented in the gospel as sustaining to men three classes of relations. 1. Those which are purely governmental. 2. Those which are purely spiritual. 3.…

LECTURE 37 SANCTIFICATION I will remind you of some points that have been settled in this course of study. 1. The true intent and meaning of the law of God…

LECTURE 38 SANCTIFICATION, PAUL ENTIRELY SANCTIFIED I might urge a great many other considerations, and as I have said, fill a book with scriptures, and arguments, and demonstrations, of the…

LECTURE 39 SANCTIFICATION, CONDITIONS OF THIS ATTAINMENT The conditions of this attainment. 1. A state of entire sanctification can never be attained by an indifferent waiting of God's time. 2.…

LECTURE 41 SANCTIFICATION, FURTHER OBJECTIONS 5. Again it is objected, that many who have embraced this doctrine, really are spiritually proud. To this I answer: (1.) So have many who…