Civil and family governments are indispensabe to the securing of this end, and are therefore really a part of the Providential and moral government of God, 425 Human Governments are a necessity of human nature, 425 This necessity will continue as long as human beings Human Governments are plainly recognized in the Bi- ble as a part of the moral government of God, - 426 That form of Government is obligatory, that is best suit- ed to meet the necessities of the people,- Revolutions become necessary and obligatory, when the In what cases we are bound to disobey human govern- Apply the foregoing principles to the rights and duties Of what physical depravity can be predicated, Of what moral depravity can be predicated, Mankind are both physically and morally depraved, 450 Subsequent to the commencement of moral agency and previous to regeneration the moral depravity of man- Moral depravity consists in selfishness, or in the choice of self-interest, self-gratification, or self-indulgence, as Further examination of the arguments adduced in sup- port of the position that human nature is in itself sinful, 468 The universal necessity of regeneration, Agencies employed in regeneration, Philosophical theories of regeneration, The different theories of Regeneration examined, Objections to the Taste Scheme, In what Saints and Sinners differ, - What is it to overcome the world? FINNEY'S LECTURES ON SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY, MORAL GOVERNMENT. LECTURE 1. I. DEFINITION OF LAW. II. DISTINCTION BETWEEN PHYSICAL AND MORAL LAW. III. ATTRIBUTES OF MORAL LAW. I. In discussing the subject, I must begin with defining the term LAW. Law, in a sense of the term both sufficiently popular and scientific for my purpose, is A RULE OF ACTION. In its generic signification, it is applicable to every kind of action, whether of matter or of mind-whether intelligent or unintelligent-whether free or necessary action. II. I must distinguish between Physical and Moral Law. Physical law is a term that represents the order of sequence, in all the changes that occur under the law of necessity, whether in matter or mind. I mean all changes, whether of state or action, that do not consist in the voluntary states or actions of free will. Physical law is the law of force, or necessity, as opposed to the law of liberty. Physical law is the law of the material universe. It is also the law of mind, so far as its states and changes are involuntary. All changes of mental state or action, which do not consist in free and sovereign changes or actions of will, must occur under, and be subject to Physical Law. They cannot possibly be accounted |