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THE object of this work is to define and defend the tenets of Calvinism in their original purity and self-consistence, as distinguished from proposed modifications of them for the purpose of an alleged improvement.
本书的目的是定义并辩护改革宗的教义，保持其原始的纯洁和自洽，以区别于为了所谓改进而对其提出的修改意见。

It has grown out of the proposal introduced into the Northern Presbyterian Church, to revise the Westminster Standards.
此书源于北方长老教会提出的修订《威斯敏斯特信条》的提议。

It contains the substance of a pamphlet which the author published in opposition to this proposal when it was first made, together with discussions of several important subjects that have subsequently come up for examination during the controversy in the Church.
本书包含了作者在最初对该提议表示反对时所发表的个小册子的实质内容，以及在教会的争论中随后出现的几个重要主题的讨论。

Of these, preterition, common and special grace, original sin, infant salvation, the “larger hope,” and the inerrancy of Scripture, are the most prominent.
其中，预遗（preterition）、普遍恩典和特殊恩典、原罪、婴儿救赎、“更大的希望”（larger hope）及圣言的无误性是最为显著的主题。

The controversy has disclosed the fact, that some Presbyterians deny that God may justly pass by any of mankind in the bestowment of saving grace;
这场争论揭示了一个事实，即一些长老会信徒否认神在施予救恩时可以公正地越过人类中的任何人；

and assert that common grace may become saving grace by the sinner’s co-operation,
并主张普遍恩典可以通过罪人的合作而转变为救恩恩典，

that original sin is not deserving of eternal death and therefore that infants are not liable to it,
并且原罪并不值得承受永恒的死亡，因此婴儿不受其影响，

that the Westminster Standards teach that all the heathen are lost,
认为《威斯敏斯特信条》教导所有外邦人都已经丧失，

and that the autographs of the inspired writers contained more or less of error.
并且认为受启示作家所写的原文多多少少包含错误。

The writer endeavors to show that the first opinion is fatal to the doctrine of Divine sovereignty in election;
作者努力表明，第一种看法致命于神在拣选中的主权教义；

that the second is Arminian synergism, not Calvinistic monergism;
第二种看法是亚米念主义的协同主义，而非改革宗的单独作用主义；

that the third destroys the doctrine of infant salvation, by making it only a quasi-salvation and a matter of obligation on the part of God;
第三种看法通过将婴儿救赎仅仅视为一种准救赎及神的责任，破坏了婴儿救赎的教义；

and that the fourth and fifth are misstatements of the contents of the Confession.
而第四和第五种看法则对信条的内容进行了错误的表述。

The aim of the author is twofold:
作者的目标有两个：

first, to explain some of the more difficult points in Calvinism,
第一，解释改革宗中的一些更困难的点，

and thereby promote the reaffirmation of the Westminster Standards pure and simple,
从而促进对《威斯敏斯特信条》单纯的再确认，

precisely as they were adopted by both schools in the reunion of 1870,
正如它们在1870年两派联合时被采纳的那样，

instead of the revision of them as now proposed, which had it been urged at that time would have been fatal to the cause of reunion;
而不是如现在所提出的修订，如果当时被主张将致命于联合的事业；

and secondly, to justify and defend before the human understanding,
第二，向人类理解证明并辩护，

that intellectual and powerful system of theology which had its origin in the Biblical studies and personal experience of the two most comprehensive and scientific theologians of Christendom,
这一知识丰富、强大的神学体系源于基督教世界两位最全面、最科学的神学家的圣经研究和个人经历，

Aurelius Augustine and John Calvin.
奥古斯丁·阿乌雷利乌斯（Aurelius Augustine）和约翰·加尔文（John Calvin）。

Table of Contents
目录

Preface
前言

INEXPEDIENCY OF THE REVISION OF THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
修订《威斯敏斯特信条》的不当之处

OBJECTIONS TO THE REVISION OF THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
对修订《威斯敏斯特信条》的反对

ARE THERE DOCTRINAL ERRORS IN THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION?
《威斯敏斯特信条》中是否存在教义上的错误？

THE WESTMINSTER STANDARDS AND THE UNIVERSAL OFFER OF MERCY
《威斯敏斯特信条》与普遍怜悯的提议

THE MEANING AND VALUE OF THE DOCTRINE OF DECREES
命令教义的意义与价值

PRETERITION NECESSARY TO THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD IN ELECTION
为维护神主权所必需的预遗

PRETERITION AND THE LOPSIDED VIEW OF THE DIVINE DECREE
预遗与神圣命令片面视角

THE DOUBLE PREDESTINATION TO HOLINESS AND SIN
双重预定至圣洁与罪恶

COMMON AND SPECIAL GRACE
普遍恩典与特殊恩典

THE TRUE PROPORTION IN A CREED BETWEEN THE UNIVERSAL AND THE SPECIAL LOVE OF GOD
信条中神的普遍爱与特殊爱的真实比例

INFANT SALVATION AS RELATED TO ORIGINAL SIN
婴儿救赎与原罪的关系

THE WESTMINSTER STANDARDS AND THE “LARGER HOPE”
《威斯敏斯特信条》与“更大的希望”

THE WESTMINSTER AFFIRMATION OF THE ORIGINAL INERRANCY OF THE SCRIPTURES
《威斯敏斯特信条》对圣言原始无误性的确认

CALVINISM AND THE BIBLE
改革宗与圣经

DENOMINATIONAL HONESTY AND HONOR
宗派的诚实与尊严