The Way of Salvatioon

Albert Barnes

The Bible

The obscurities of divine revelation

The claims of the Christian religion

The condition of man not benefitted by the rejection of Christianity

The importance of man

The earth a place of probation

Man on probation

The necessity of accommodating ourselves to the arrangements of the divine government

The state in which the gospel finds man

The inquiry, what must I do to be saved?

Conviction of sin

The struggles of a convicted sinner

A wounded spirit

What will give permanent peace to a soul convicted of sin

The mercy of God

The atonement as fitted to give peace to a convicted sinner

The atonement as it removes the obstacles in the way of pardon

The necessity of regeneration

The nature of regeneration

The agency of the Holy Spirit in regeneration

The nature of repentance

The relation of repentance to pardon in the Christian system

The philosophical necessity of repentance

The foundation of the command to repent laid in the character of man

The evidences of true repentance

Faith a condition

The value and importance of faith

Faith as an elementary principle of action

The importance of the inquiry, how shall man be just with God?

Man cannot justify himself by denying or disproving the charge of guilt

Man cannot justify himself by showing that his conduct is right

Man cannot merit salvation

What is meant by the merits of Christ

In what sense we are justified by the merits of Christ

The influence of faith in justification

The bearing and importance of the doctrine of justification by faith