The Collected Writings of James Henley Thornwell

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Author James Henley Thornwell

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The Collected Writings of James Henley Thornwell

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ISBN	9780851511979
Binding	Cloth-bound
Original Pub Date	1871
Banner Pub Date	1974
Recent Pub Date Year	2024
Page Count	2752

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Of these Collected Writings of James Henley Thornwell, the first volume may properly be entitled Theological, the second, Theological and Ethical, the third, Theological and Controversial, and the fourth, Ecclesiological.

Volume 1: Theological
The [first] volume contains sixteen lectures in theology. All these constitute his discussion of that portion of theology which relates to God and to moral government essentially considered, or to the same as modified by the Covenant of Works. To this volume, by way of appendix, are added his Inaugural Discourse, his Questions on the Lectures to his classes, his Analysis of Calvin’s Institutes and his examination questions thereupon. The next volume will discuss that portion of theology which relates to moral government as modified by the Covenant of Grace. These two volumes are not a treatise on theology written by our distinguished professor, but consist of all that he left behind him upon those topics, gathered together since his decease by the hand of friendship, and systematized as well as possible according to his conception of the science of theology.

Volume 2: Theological and Ethical
The sixteen lectures may be reckoned his very latest productions. Upon some of the topics in the second volume, what we have to present the reader will be some of his earlier writings; there is not one of them, however, but bears the same impressive genius—not one of them but his instinct with the same unction of the Spirit of truth and love. Accompanying what the second volume will contain upon the Doctrines of Grace, there will be found a partial discussion of the morals which necessarily flow out of those doctrines.

Volume 3: Theological and Controversial
The third volume will contain an elaborate discussion of the canon, the authority of Scripture, papal infallibility, the mass, the validity of popish baptism, and the claims of the Romish church to be reckoned any church at all. In the discussion of popish baptism the author was led into a thorough consideration of the Christian doctrine of justification, and hence that whole argument might well be placed in the second volume. Connected as it was, however, by other ties with the Romish controversy, it was judged best, after mature reflection, to place it in the volume of the theological and polemic writings.

Volume 4: Ecclesiastical
In the fourth volume will be gathered whatever else Dr Thornwell has left behind him touching the question of the church.

— From the editor’s preface.

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	VOLUME I
	Prefatory Note	23
	Lecture I. Preliminary Observations	25
	Lecture II. The Being of God	53
	Lecture III. Man’s Natural Ignorance of God	74
	Lecture IV. The Nature and Limits of Our Knowledge of God	104
	Lecture V. The Names of God	143
	Lecture VI. The Nature and Attributes of God	158
	Lecture VII. Spirituality of God	173
	Lecture VIII. The Incommunicable Attributes of God	189
	Lecture IX. Creation	206
	Lecture X. Man	223
	Lecture XI. Moral Government	252
	Lecture XII. The Covenant of Works	264
	Lecture XIII. Original Sin	301
	Lecture XIV. The State and Nature of Sin	352
	Lecture XV. The Pollution and Guilt of Sin	400
	Lecture XVI. Degrees of Guilt	425
	-- Theology, its Proper Method and Central Principle: A Review of Breckenridge’s Objective Theology	445
	-- The Personality of God	491
	-- Nature of Our Relation to Adam in His First Sin: A Review of Baird’s Elohim Revealed	515
	APPENDIX A: Discourse delivered by Dr. Thornwell, upon being inaugurated as Professor of Theology	573
	APPENDIX B: Questions upon the Lectures in Theology	583
	APPENDIX C: Analysis of Calvin’s Institutes, with Notes and Comments	597
	APPENDIX D: Questions on Calvin’s Institutes	642

	VOLUME II
	Prefatory Note	15
I.	Outline of the Covenant of Grace and Testimony to Sublapsarianism	17
II.	Theology as a Life in Individuals and in the Church: Being a Review of Breckinridge’s Subjective Theology	31
III.	The Necessity and Nature of Christianity	55
IV.	Election and Reprobation	105
V.	The Necessity of the Atonement	205
VI.	The Priesthood of Christ	265
VII.	Christ Tempted as the Second Adam	293
VIII.	The Gospel, God’s Power and Wisdom	301
IX.	The Personality of the Holy Ghost	337
X.	The Nature of Salvation	371
XI.	Antinomianism	383
XII.	Christian Effort	397
XIII.	The Sacrifice of Christ, the Type and Model of Missionary Effort	411
XIV.	Discourses on Truth
	-- Discourse I.—The Ethical System of the Bible	453
	-- Discourse II.—The Love of Truth	476
	-- Discoruse III.—The Love of Truth	496
	-- Discourse IV.—Sincerity	519
	-- Discourse V.—Faithfulness	543
	-- Discourse VI.—Vows	569
	-- Discourse VII.—Consistency	594

	VOLUME III
	PART I.—RATIONALIST CONTROVERSY
	Prefatory Note by the Editor	7
	THE STANDARD AND NATURE OF RELIGION IN THREE SECTIONS	9
	-- Section 1. An External Standard Vindicated	9
	-- Section 2. Religion Psychologically Considered	78
	-- Section 3. Revelation and Religion	153
	THE OFFICE OF REASON IN REGARD TO REVELATION	221
	MIRACLES	221
	-- Their Nature	228
	-- Their Apologetic Worth	233
	-- Their Credibility	251
	PART II.—PAPAL CONTROVERSY
	Prefatory Note by the Editor	279
	The Validity of the Baptism of the Church of Rome	283
	Romanist Arguments for the Apocrypha Discussed	413
	-- Letter I. Preliminary Statements—Council of Trent and the Canon	413
	-- Letter II. The Argument for Inspiration Examined	430
	-- Letter III. The Argument for an Infallible Body	439
	-- Letter IV. Historical Argument	460
	-- Letter V. Infallibility—Historical Difficulties	475
	-- Letter VI. Infallibility and Skepticism	493
	-- Letter VII. Infallibility and Superstition	516
	-- Letter VIII. Infallibility and Civil Government	540
	-- Letter IX. The Apocrypha not quoted in the New Testament	558
	-- Letter X. The Apocrypha and the Jewish Canon	569
	-- Letter XI. Silence of Christ as to the Apocrypha	584
	-- Letter XII. The Apocrypha and the Jewish Church—The Apocrypha and the Primitive Church	600
	-- Letter XIII. The Apocrypha and Ancient Versions of Scripture—The Apocrypha and the Apostolic Fathers	611
	-- Letter XIV. Patristic terms applied to the Apocrypha	628
	-- Letter XV. Testimonies from the Second Century	644
	-- Letter XVI. Testimonies from the Third Century	665
	-- Letter XVII. Testimonies from the Fourth Century	677
	-- Letter XVIII. The Real Testimony of the Primitive Church	711
	APPENDIX	743
	-- Original Article on the Apocrypha by the Author	745
	-- Specimen Letters of a Reply by the Rev. P. N. Lynch, D. D.	753
	-- Collection of Passages in which Dr. Lynch represents the Fathers as quoting the Apocrypha	802

	VOLUME IV
I.	CHURCH OFFICERS	4
	-- The Call of the Minister	15
	-- The Ruling Elder	43
	-- The Ruling Elder a Presbyter	115
	-- Resolutions as to the Eldership	132
	-- Presbyterianism and the Eldership	134
II.	CHURCH OPERATIONS	143
	-- Arguments against Church Boards	145
	-- Argument for Church Boards Answered	173
	-- Debate touching Church Boards	217
	-- Church Boards and Presbyterianism	242
III.	CHURCH DISCIPLINE	297
	-- The Revised Book of Discipline	299
	-- The Revised Book Vindicated	336
IV.	THE CHURCH AND SLAVERY	376
	-- Relation of the Church to Slavery	381
	-- The Christian Doctrine of Slavery	398
V.	THE SOUTHERN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	437
	-- Reasons for Separate Organization	439
	-- Address to all Churches of Christ	446
	-- Valedictory Letter to the Northern Church	465
VI.	THE CHURCH and SECULAR SOCIETIES	467
	-- Societies for Moral Reform	469
	-- Speech on African Colonization	472
VII.	MISCELLANEA	479
	-- Review of the General Assembly of 1847	481
	-- Report on Systematic Beneficence	505
	-- Report on Foreign Missions	508
	-- Sermon on National Sins	510
	-- Relation of the State to Christ (A Memorial)	549
	-- The Scribe Instructed	557
	-- The Gospel Ministry	562
	APPENDIXES	579
	-- A. Argument for Church Boards, by the Rev. Thomas Smyth, D. D.	581
	-- B. Presbyterianism, by the Rev. Charles Hodge, D. D.	616

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The Collected Writings of James Henley Thornwell abundantly confirm that among the many expositors of the theology and experimental religion which came to classical exposition in the Westminster Confession of Faith, Thornwell is one of the most erudite and powerful. Clothbound, four volumes.