X LECTURES ON SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, EMBRACING Moral Government, THE ATONEMENT, MORAL AND PHYSICAL DEPRAVITY, NATURAL, MORAL, AND GRACIOUS ABILITY, REPENTANCE, FAITH, BY THE REV. CHARLES G. FINNEY, PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY IN THE OBERLIN COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, OHIO, AMERICA. The whale work Revised, Enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author, DURING HIS LATE VISIT TO ENGLAND. EDITED AND REVISED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION, BY THE REV. GEORGE REDFORD, D.D., LL.D., OF WORCESTER. LONDON: WILLIAM TEGG AND Co., 85, QUEEN STREET, CHEAPSIDE. Adv. Bil. PREFACE BY THE EDITOR. THE Lectures of the Rev. PROFESSOR FINNEY, which are here given to the British public, were first delivered to the class of theological students at the Oberlin College, America, and subsequently published there. They were unknown in this country, except to a few of the Author's personal friends, until his arrival in England, about two years since. His name, however, was well known, and several of his works had been extensively read. The Editor having had the pleasure and honour of forming a personal acquaintance with the Author soon after his arrival in this country, did not long remain ignorant of his Theological Lectures. After the first hasty perusal of them, he ventured strongly to recommend their publication, both for the sake of making the British churches better acquainted with the Author's doctrinal views, and also on account of the direct benefit which students, and other inquirers into the theory of gospel doctrines, would be likely to derive from a work so argumentative, and so unlike all the works on systematic and dogmatic theology known to the English schools. After due consultation and deliberation the Author pressed upon the Editor the work of revision, and placed the Lectures in his hands, with the request that he would read them carefully, and suggest such alterations as he might deem desirable to adapt the work to the English reader; and then submit the whole to the Author's adoption or rejection. This task the Editor undertook, and has performed in the best manner his time and ability would allow. The Author has carefully A |