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A. A. Hodge composed Outlines of Theology for his congregation—making the tone of this succinct systematic theology more pastoral than dogmatic. Hodge credits his father’s theological wisdom, and acknowledges that conversations with his father, as well as material from his father’s sermons and lectures, has made its way into Outlines of Theology. This outline began as a series of popular lectures...

CHAPTER XXVIII UNION OF BELIEVERS WITH CHRIST 1. To whom are all men united in their natural estate? To Adam. Our union with him includes, 1st, his federal headship under the covenant of works, Rom. 5:12–19. 2d. His natural headship, as per force of ordinary generation, the source of our nature, and of its moral corruptions, Gen. 5:3; 1 Cor. 15:49. But the law upon which rested the covenant of works, whereby we were held in union with Adam, having been slain by Christ, “that being dead wherein we
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