The Scottish Review Author:William Musham Metcalfe Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Principles of Christianity, being a Essay towards a more correct apprehension of Christian doctrine, mainly soteriologicaL By James Stuart, M.A. London: Williams... more » and Nor- gate, 1888. The principles of Christianity discussed in this volume are, aa its sub-title indicates, those that bear more or less directly on what is generally called the Christian ' plan' or ' scheme' of salvation. Mr. Stuart's object is to place this ' plan ' or ' scheme ' in the light of the New Testament soteriological teaching, and to see whether or not it is in harmony with it, and whether it is justified by it. He starts with the doctrine that lies at the basis of the Protestant orthodox view of the method of salvation—the doctrine of imputation. He examines the threefold phase of that doctrine —the imputation of Adam's sin to all men, the imputation of men's sin to Christ, and the imputation of His righteousness to believers. Determining what imputation weans and involves in this connection, he proceeds to a careful examination of all the passages bearing on the redemptive or saving work of Jesus, and very specially in St. Paul's Epistles and the Epistle to the Hebrews, and endeavours to show that the so-called plan of salvation was in reality unknown to these writers—has in fact been read, in the course of the doctrinal development of the Church, into the New Testament writings and so is now so constantly read out of them. Mr. Stuart takes care to define very plainly his own position with respect to the question under discussion, but though this is altogether a negative one, his examination of the Pauline and other writings is a patient, minute, and scholarly piece of workmanship, and well merits the attention of all exegetes. He is severely logical and concise, yet lucid and always interesting, if he...« less