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The book is 550 pages single spaced type, and houses over 800 footnotes.  

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The following chapters and topics are covered:

Chapter 1: The Right Use of Logic
The Relationship of logic and Theology
Objections to Logic in Theology
The Relationship Between a Rational Hermeneutic and a True Theology
The “Consistent” Hermeneutic and the Doctrine of God
The Distinction Between a Mystery and a Contradiction 
A Change of the Hermeneutical Rules
A.W. Pink and the “Ir”rational Hermeneutic
Hegel’s Dialectic and Kant’s Wall

Chapter 2: Archetypal and Ectypal Knowledge
What Kind of Knowledge do we have about God?
Cornelius Van Til, John Frame and Presuppositional Apologetics
Defining Things Clearly

Chapter 3: The Will of God
Calvinism and Arminianism
The Inescapable Senses of the Bible
The Compound Sense and Divided Sense of the Bible
The Relationship Between the Decretive and Perceptive Will of God
What Does God will?
The Bible and the Will of God
A Note on Calvin’s Use of Accommodation

Chapter 4: The Will of God and the Elect
God’s Will or Intention towards the Elect

Chapter 5: The Will of God and the Reprobate

Chapter 6: The Will of God and Common Grace
Is Common Grace Really Grace?
How does the Bible Define Grace?
Grace Is not in things – it is in Christ alone.
The Intention of God in Giving the Reprobate Good Things 
Leaving Men without excuse
God Hides Salvation From Some Men
God uses the wicked as He pleases 
God’s vindictive justice is amiable, desirable and comforting to the Saints.
Common “Grace” Does Not Exist
Is there such a thing as Restraining Grace?

Chapter 7: Exegetical Analysis of Key Passages Appealing to Common Grace
Romans 2:1-5
Matthew 5:45, Luke 6:36, Romans 12:19-20, 1 Thess. 5:15, 1 Peter 3:9 
Matthew 5:45
Luke 6:35-36
Romans 12:14, 17-20, 1 Thess. 5:15 and 1 Peter 3:9
Romans 12:14, 17-20
1 Peter 3:10-12
Concluding remarks on Enemy love
John 3:16
Ezekiel 18:23, 32; 33:11
The Repentance and Vexation of God

Chapter 8: The Hypothesis of the Continuum
Understanding the Continuum from God’s Eternality
Understanding the Continuum from God’s Immutability
Understanding the Continuum from God’s Unity and Simplicity
Understanding the Continuum in light of God’s Omnipotence
Understanding the Continuum from God’s Actuality
Conclusion

Chapter 9: The Eternal Counsel of God and His Will
All things come from God’s Counsel
The Eternal Counsel has its base in God’s Knowledge
God’s Foreknowledge and the Continuum
The Continuum, Divine Decree, and Declaration
The Covenant of Redemption was completed in the Eternal Counsel
Why did God will complete atonement in the Eternal Counsel
God has willed for every man some end
Conclusion

Chapter 10: The Will of God, the Call of the Gospel and the Reprobate
The Call of the Gospel and the “Free Offer.”
Effectual Calling and the Gospel Offer
Who are the Recipients of the Gospel Call?
God Makes Men Inexcusable With The Gospel Call
What does God “will” in the call?
What do we do with texts like 2 Peter 3:9 and Matthew 23:37?
The Decretum Absolutum Reprobationis

Chapter 11: St. Augustine: The Will and Actions of God in Providence, Election and Reprobation 
The Providence of God
The Will of God
God makes Good use of the wicked
All Men are Molded by the Wisdom and Will of the Potter 
Augustine on Gospel the Call
The Christian Response to the wicked
The Delight of the Saints in the Reprobation of the Wicked
Augustine and Common Grace
Conclusion

Chapter 12: John Calvin: The Doctrine of Election and Reprobation
Calvin’s Own Words 
Calvin’s Treatises and Sermons on Election and Reprobation
Calvin’s Treatises
The Institutes of the Christian Religion
Calvin and the Will of God
Does God bless the unsaved? 
God hardens men
Repentance is a gift of God, not something from natural revelation
The Inward Gospel Call is Not for the Reprobate
A Brief note on Ezekiel 33:11 and 18:23
Calvin and Common Grace – God’s Fatherly Love
Conclusion

Chapter 13: William Perkins, the Will of God, & the Foundation for Puritan Theology

Chapter 14: Francis Turretin: The Truth, the Will of God and the Reprobation of Men
Turretin and the Truth that must never Contradict
Turretin and the Decrees of God
Turretin and the Will of God
Turretin on Reprobation
Turretin and Gospel Preaching
Conclusion

Chapter 15: John Owen and the Will of God
John Owen: A Digression on Universal Grace 

Chapter 16: Jonathan Edwards: The Plight of the Wicked and the Certainty of God’s 
Decrees
Edwards and Common Grace 
Conclusion

Chapter 17: The Creeds and Confessions Of the Early Church
God’s Eternal Counsel is For His Glory
God Has One Will
God’s Governing Providence
The Light of Nature Cannot Save
Election and Reprobation Flow from God’s Good Pleasure
Election and Reprobation are To Whomsoever God wills.
Is The Gospel an Offer or a Gracious Command?
Does God Love the non-elect?
Leaving the Reprobate Without Excuse
Attendance of the Curse of God
Do Not Despair
Conclusion

Chapter 18: How shall we preach the Gospel?
John Bunyan
John Owen
Jonathan Edwards
William Greenhill
Conclusion

Chapter 19: Are There Two Wills In God Or Not?
Does God really have two wills? The Importance of the Answer

Appendix 1: R.L. Dabney and the Will of God

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