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In his Lectures on Systematic Theology, Finney clarifies his theological views for both his sympathizers and his opponents, and outlines both the substance and the biblical justification for his theology. The first section of his lectures is devoted to Christian morality and ethics, which he uses as the groundwork for his doctrine of the atonement, doctrine of justification, and doctrine of...

purposes to his prescience or foreknowledge We have seen that God is omniscient, that is, that he necessarily and eternally knows whatever is, or can be an object of knowledge. His purposes must also be eternal and immutable, as we have seen. In the order of time, therefore, his purposes and his foreknowledge must be coeval, that is, they must be co-eternal. But in the order of nature God’s knowledge of what he could do, and what could be done, must have preceded his purposes: that is, he could not,