in the Mosaic system. C. Theories of the Atonement. 1st. The Socinian, or Example Theory of the Atonement. 2nd. The Bushnellian, or Moral Influence Theory of the Atonement. 3d. The Grotian, or Governmental Theory of the Atonement. 4th. The Irvingian Theory, or Theory of Gradually Extirpated Depravity. 5th. The Anselmic, or Commercial Theory of the Atonement. 6th. The Ethical Theory of the Atonement. D. Objections to the Ethical Theory of the Atonement. E. The Extent of the Atonement. 2. Christ’s Intercessory Work. III. The Kingly Office of Christ. [Cover Art] [Transcriber’s Note: The above cover image was produced by the submitter at Distributed Proofreaders, and is being placed into the public domain.] Christo Deo Salvatori. “THE EYE SEES ONLY THAT WHICH IT BRINGS WITH IT THE POWER OF SEEING.”—_Cicero._ “OPEN THOU MINE EYES, THAT I MAY BEHOLD WONDROUS THINGS OUT OF THY LAW.”—_Psalm 119:18._ “FOR WITH THEE IS THE FOUNTAIN OF LIFE: IN THY LIGHT SHALL WE SEE LIGHT.”—_Psalm 36:9._ “FOR WE KNOW IN PART, AND WE PROPHESY IN PART; BUT WHEN THAT WHICH IS PERFECT IS COME, THAT WHICH IS IN PART SHALL BE DONE AWAY.”—_1 Cor. 13:9, 10._ PART IV. THE NATURE, DECREES, AND WORKS OF GOD. (CONTINUED) Chapter IV. The Works Of God; Or The Execution Of The Decrees. Section I.—Creation. I. Definition Of Creation. By creation we mean that free act of the triune God by which in the beginning for his own glory he made, without the use of preëxisting materials, the whole visible and invisible universe. Creation is designed origination, by a transcendent and personal God, of that which itself is not God. The universe is related to God as our own volitions are related to ourselves. They are not ourselves, and we are greater than they. Creation is not simply the idea of God, or even the plan of God, but it is the idea externalized, the plan executed; in other words, it implied an exercise, not only of intellect, but also of will, and this will is not an instinctive and unconscious will, but a will that is personal and free. Such exercise of will seems to involve, not self-development, but self-limitation, on the part of God; the transformation of energy into force, and so a beginning of time, with its finite successions. But, whatever the relation of creation to time, creation makes the universe wholly dependent upon God, as its originator.