“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 VI. SOTERIOLOGY, OR THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION THROUGH THE WORK OF CHRIST AND OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. [Transcriber’s Note: This Volume begins with “Chapter II”, because “Chapter I” of “Part VI” was printed in Volume II.] Chapter II. The Reconciliation Of Man To God, Or The Application Of Redemption Through The Work Of The Holy Spirit. Section I.—The Application Of Christ’s Redemption In Its Preparation. (_a_) In this Section we treat of Election and Calling; Section Second being devoted to the Application of Christ’s Redemption in its Actual Beginning,—namely, in Union with Christ, Regeneration, Conversion, and Justification; while Section Third has for its subject the Application of Christ’s Redemption in its Continuation,—namely, in Sanctification and Perseverance. The arrangement of topics, in the treatment of the reconciliation of man to God, is taken from Julius Müller, Proof‐texts, 35. “Revelation _to_ us aims to bring about revelation _in_ us. In any being absolutely perfect, God’s intercourse with us by _faculty_, and by direct _teaching_, would absolutely coalesce, and the former be just as much God’s voice as the latter” (Hutton, Essays). (_b_) In treating Election and Calling as applications of Christ’s redemption, we imply that they are, in God’s decree, logically subsequent to that redemption. In this we hold the Sublapsarian view, as distinguished from the Supralapsarianism of Beza and other hyper‐ Calvinists, which regarded the decree of individual salvation as preceding, in the order of thought, the decree to permit the Fall. In this latter scheme, the order of decrees is as follows: 1. the decree to save certain, and to reprobate others; 2. the decree to create both those who are to be saved and those who are to be reprobated; 3. the decree to permit both the former and the latter to fall; 4. the decree to provide salvation only for the former, that is, for the elect.