A.

Abbot, Ezra, Professor (Harvard),
catalogue of works on the future

state, iii. 718.

Abelard (d. 1142),

idea of omnipotence, i. 411; on
realism, ii. 53; on original sin,
ii. 169.

Ability,
proper meaning of the word, ii.
291; plenary ability, ii. 152;
natural and moral ability, value
of the distinction, ii. 265; Pel-
agian doctrine, ii. 152; Semi-
Pelagian or Arminian doctrine,
ii. 267; distinguished from lib-
erty, ii. 291; when does ability
limit obligation, and when does
it not, ii. 153, 251; iii. 233.
See Inability.
Absolute and Infinite, the,
philosophical definition of, i. 347;

conclusions drawn from those
definitions, i. 347 ff.; fallacy
of those conclusions, i. 349.

Absolute Power,

scholastic doctrine, i. 409.
Absolution,

merely declarative, iii. 762; doc-
trine of Romanists, iii. 494,
753, 758, 764; arguments
against, iii. 764; not sustained
by John xx. 23, iii. 761.
Active and passive Obedience
of Christ, iii. 142.

Adam,

his original state, ii. 92, 116; his
fall, ii. 123; the effects of his
fall on himself, ii. 129; on his
posterity, ii. 192; the repre-
sentative of his race, ii. 197:
a type of Christ, iii. 153.
Administrator

of the sacraments, iii. 514.
Adult Baptism,

qualifications for, iii. 541.
Adultery,

Scriptural ground of divorce, iii.

393.

Advent, Second, of Christ,

church doctrine of, iii. 792; its
antecedents, iii. 800 ff.; its con-
comitants, iii. 837 ff.; objec-
tions urged against the church
doctrine, iii. 796; objection
founded on Matthew xxiv. and
xxv., iii. 797; premillenial ad-
vent theory, iii. 861; objections
to it, iii. 862 ff.; expectation of
the Apostles concerning the
Second Advent, iii. 867.
Agassiz, Professor (Harvard),
his avowal of theism, i. 222:
definition of species, ii. 80, iii.
778; condemnation of Dar-
winism, ii. 15.
Agobard (Bishop of Lyons, d. 840),
number of the sacraments, iii. 497.
Agricola (d. 1566),

on good works, iii. 238.

Alexander, Joseph Addison, Pro-
fessor (d. 1860),

on vicarious suffering, ii. 508; on
the end of the world, iii. 841;
on hell, iii. 875.