VIEWS IN THEOLOGY. No. XI. VOL. III. NOVEMBER, 1832. NEW-YORK: JOHN P. HAVEN, 148 NASSAU-STREET, AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY'S HOUSE. THE Views in Theology will continue to be published semi-annually, in May and November, and be devoted chiefly, as heretofore, to discussion on the Doctrines of Religion. Four numbers will form a volume. Those who desire the work, will please to give notice to the publisher, at 148 Nassau-street. Ministers and theological students, of whatever denomination, will receive it, if desired, without charge. THE HOLY SPIRIT'S REGENERATING INFLUENCES. NONE of the views, perhaps, which it has been the object of this work to exhibit, have met with a more reluctant acquiescence, than those which respect the instrumentality of moral means in the great work of regeneration. Their adoption, it has been thought, must naturally involve a modification of several other branches of the prevalent system, beside that to which it is most immediately opposed, and carry along with it, important changes in the methods of theological instruction; and grave apprehensions have accordingly been expressed by some respecting the utility of their inculcation; and, by others, still graver doubts of their truth. No adequate grounds, however, for those apprehensions, have, to my judgment, been exhibited, nor any convincing proofs that this portion of the views, on which I have taken occasion to dwell, is not sustained by as indubitable evidence as any other branch of the system to which it belongs, and fraught with as just claims to assent and avowal; nor that, on the other hand, the doctrine which it is its object to supersede, is not as obviously erroneous as any of its associated positions, and as fruitful of pernicious influences. It |