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STUDY IV.

THE EPOCHS AND DISPENSATIONS MARKED IN THB DEVELOPMENT OF THE DIVINE PLAN.

GOD'S PLAN DEFINITE AND SYSTEMATIC THREE GREAT EPOCHS OP TH* WORLD'S HISTORY. THEIR DISTINCTIVE FEATURES.-- "THE EARTH ABIDETH FOREVER/* THE WORLD TO Cows, THE NEW HEAVENS AND EARTH. SUBDI- VISIONS OP THESE GREAT EPOCHS. THE IMPORTANT FEATURES OP GOD'S PLAN THUS BROUGHT TO VIEW. ORDER RECOGNIZED DISCLOSES HARMONY,

STUDY V.

THE MYSTERY HID FROM AGES AND FROM GENERA-

TIONS, BUT NOW MADE MANIFEST TO

HIS SAINTS." COL. I : 26.

THF GLIMMERING LIGHT OP THE FIRST PROMISE THE PROMISE TO ABRAHAM. HOPS DEFERRED. THE MYSTERY BEGINS TO UNRAVEL AT PENTECOST. WHAT THE MYSTERY Is WHY So LONG KEPT A MYSTERY. STILL A MYSTERY TO THE WORLD. Iw DUB TEWS TO BE MADE MANIFEST TO ALL. WHEN THB MYS-

STUDY VI.

OUR LORD'S RETURN ITS OBJECT, THE RESTITU- TION OF ALL THINGS.

OUR LORD'S SECOND ADVENT PERSONAL AND PRE-MILLENNIAL. ITS RELATION- SHIP TO THE FIRST ADVENT. THE SELTCTION OF THE CHURCH AND THE CON- VERSION OF THE WORLD. ELECTION AND FREE GRACE. PRISONERS OF HOPE, PROPHETIC TESTIMONY RXGABPING RESTITUTION OUR LORD'S RETURN MAN-

STUDY VIL

THE PERMISSION OF EVIL AND ITS RELATION TO GOD'S PLAN.

WHY EVIL WAS PBRMITTBD. RIGHT AND WRONG AS PRINCIPLES. THE MORAL SENSE. GOD PERMITTED EVIL, AND WILL OVERRULE IT FOR GOOD. GOD NOT THE AUTHOR OF SIN. ADAM'S TRIAL NOT A FARCB. His TEMPTATION SE- VERE. HE SINNED WILFULLY. THB PENALTY OF SIN NOT UNJUST, NOR Too SEVERE. THE WISDOM, Leva AND JUSTICE DISPLAYED IN CONDEMNING ALL IN ADAM. GOD'S LAW UNIVERSAL. . . , . . . ny

STUDY VIII. THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.

THE GENERAL VIEW OF THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. Is rr SCRIPTURAL? TH TERMS, JUDGMENT AND DAY, DEFINED, SEVERAL JUDGMENT DAYS REFPRRHD TO INTHS SCRIPTURES. THB FIRST JUDGMENT DAY AND ITS RESULTS, A*-

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