5. What is the formula of hydrosulphate of ammonium, how is it made, and what action does it exert on nitrate of silver, chloride of copper, and sulphate of manganese ?

6. Give the processes which yield nitrous and nitric oxides, and explain how these gases may be distinguished from each other.

7. How is heavy spar converted into sulphide of barium, and how from the latter compound would you prepare barytic water, or chloride of barium?

8. Explain the means by which, in the case of a hydraulic mortar, you would determine the amount of the active silex.

9. Give the crystallographic characters of each of the crystalline systems, and specify those which are uniaxal, and those which are biaxal.

10. Write the formula of orthoclase, augite, fluor-spar, gypsum, red hematite, sparry-iron ore, glance copper, galena, blende, and tinstone; and at the same time give the crystalline system of each.

GENERAL DIVINITY EXAMINATION.

JUNIOR CLASS.

DR. LEE.

PROFESSOR'S LECTURES.

1. In regarding the phenomena of the Universe, Atheism has only one explanation to give. State some reasons why this result is inadmissible?

2. In Locke's "demonstration" of the existence of God, this resource of Atheism was overlooked,

3. The system of "Positivism" would expel a fundamental idea from philosophy. What substitute does it propose? and what is the logical result?

4. Discuss Hume's position that the world is a "singular effect."

5. State briefly the leading conceptions of Pantheism, and the heads of the reply to this form of Atheism.

6. What is the constant objection to the efficacy of prayer? State some reasons in reply.

7. The "geological" objections against the Bible assume a principle of which the defenders of religion too often admit the validity. What course should be pursued here by the defenders of religion?

8, Distinguish between the Divine names Jehovah and Elohim.

9. What are the objections urged against the unity of the Book of Isaiah? What is the Rationalistic principle on which this class of objections is really founded?

10. When only would Hume's position that "a miracle is a violation of the laws of Nature" be tenable?

II. In the later edition of his work, Strauss introduces an element which is destructive of his system?

12. How is the fact of Prophecy rendered consistent with human freedom? Illustrate this from Scripture.

13. The Trinitarian controversy, at an early period, was divided into two distinct branches. How does each line of reasoning proceed?

14. What was the practical answer to all forms of Sabellianism? 15. What titles of our Lord express, respectively, that the Divine Persons are distinct, and that the Divine Essence is inseparable?

16. Give an account of the use and discontinuance of the idea of "Subordination" as applied to the Second Person in the Trinity.

17. On what principle did the reasoning of Arius depend? and how does this appear in the details of his heresy?

18. What important theological terms do we owe to Origen and S. Anselm respectively? Write a brief note on the theological meaning of these terms.

19. Beyond what point can reason not proceed in tracing the grounds of the doctrine of the atonement?

20. Show from Scripture that the death of Christ was essentially sacrificial and vicarious.

PEARSON ON THE CREED, ART. I., II., VIII.

1. Show that the names Jesus and Joshua are the same; and state the results which follow from the formation of the name Joshua.

2. Quote the passages in the New Testament in which the title Messias occurs; and show "that there was among the Jews an expectation of such a Christ to come."

3. State clearly, under distinct heads, Pearson's proof that the Messias who was promised to the Jews is already come.

4. Give Pearson's comment on the words, "Verily, Verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was I am;" together with his application of this text.

5. Give Pearson's account of the heresy of Photinus.

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6. Show from Scripture that "Christ is the true God.. participation, but by communication." Express this truth in the language of the Creeds.

7. Show that the Divine names Jehovah and Adonai are applied to Christ. Distinguish between these titles.

8. State in order the heads of the argument by which Pearson shows "What the Holy Ghost, in whose name we are baptized, is."

9. How does Pearson reply to the "Socinian Prosopopœia"?

10. Give Pearson's comment on the word Paraclete.

COMPOSITION.

Discuss the text, 1 Thess. v. 19:

"Quench not the Spirit."

DIVINITY PRIZE EXAMINATION.

JUNIOR CLASS.

DR. LEE.

PROFESSOR'S LECTURES.

1. What are the grounds of our belief in the permanence of the Laws of Nature? What is Hume's remark on this subject?

2. Explain Mr. Darwin's theory of "Natural Selection." What, at the utmost, does it amount to?

3. Write a brief note on the theories which attempt to banish the idea and the word "Cause" from philosophy.

4. Give some reasons which show that the objections to the validity of the Ontological argument are practically of no weight.

5. Give some instances of the revival in recent times of the doctrine of the Metempsychosis. State the leading arguments in disproof of this doctrine.

6. As an argument against Pantheism, trace the consequences which flow from the Pantheistic denial of Creation.

7. The distinction between the Divine names Jehovah and Elohim, in the history of Creation, seems to have been designed to guard against grave forms of error? Give an account of the use of these two words in the opening chapters of Genesis, stating the motive of their separate and combined use.

8. State briefly the reasons which prove that the vernacular language of Palestine in our Lord's day was Greek.

9. What logical fallacy pervades M. E. Renan's argument against Miracles?

10. Strauss takes exception to Renan's mode of viewing the Gospel of S. John, and why? How do modern Rationalists differ from their predecessors as to S. John's writings?

11. How should you propose to meet the cavils raised against the narrative of the command to Abraham to slay his son?

12. What is the distinction between a contradiction, and an antinomy of reason? Apply this distinction to meet objections against certain doctrines of religion, Natural and Revealed.

13. What are the usual Rationalistic objections to the value of Prophecy as an element of the Christian Evidences? Answer these objections.

14. Show the absurdity of instituting any comparison between the exhibitions of the so-called "Spiritualists," and the supernatural events recorded in Scripture.

15. What are the Scriptural grounds on which the idea of Dogma rests? Write a note on the growth and necessity of dogmatic theology. 16. Write a note on the distinct senses of the words πрóσwπоY, ὑπόστασις, οὐσία.

17. Give exact definitions of the Apollinarian, Nestorian, Eutychian, Monothelete, and Adoptionist heresies.

18. State arguments from Scripture against each of these heresies.

19. What contribution to the more exact statement of the doctrine of the Atonement was introduced by S. Anselm? Show that there was nothing novel in the language which he employed; and explain in what consisted the advantage of it.

20. Criticize Archbishop Magee's remarks on the preference given to Abel's Sacrifice.

GREEK TESTAMENT.

1. (a). Give an account of the foundations on which the criticism of the text of the New Testament at present rests; and describe the MSS. which serve as the chief guides for settling the text of each of the Gospels.

(5). Write a note on iv 'Epéow, Eph. i. 1.

2. Translate, in accordance with the reading to which the preference must be given, the following passages:-S. Luke, xviii. 7; xxi. 25; xxiv. 13; S. John, i. 26–28; iii. 13; adding your reasons, and any explanatory note which you deem necessary.

3. Translate, marking the idiom :—S. Luke, xviii. 5 ; xxii. 51; S. John i. 8, 9; Acts, xix. 38; xxvi. 10; Col. ii. 5, 18.

4. Xplorós is once only connected with 'Inoous in the Gospels-explain this. When is it for the first time so connected after the Gospels ? Give instances where Xpioróg is used witnout the Article.

5. Explain the force of the Article, or its omission, in the passages:S. Luke, vii. 5; vi. 16; Acts, viii. 5; ix. 35; xvii. 1; S. Mark, xiv. 69.

6. Translate, explaining your translation:-S. Matt. x. 9; S. Luke, xviii. 12; xxi. 19; S. John, iii. 3 (where write a note on avweɛv, referring to Gal. iv. 9).

7. (α). Distinguish between ἀρά, ἄρα and ἆρα; φῶς and λύχνος; καιόμενος and φαίνων (applying the last distinction to S. John, v. 35).

(4). Distinguish between spinetv, duaepinetv, karakotvety ; and apply this distinction to Rom. xiv. 22, 23.

(c). In rendering the following texts, distinguish between the meanings of aorists and perfects :-S. John, i. 3; Rom. vii. 4, 6; Col. i. 16, 17; ii. 11-15.

8. Translate and explain the terms and phrases :-tooyovio ; cipua; βλέποντα κατὰ λίβα καὶ κατὰ χῶρον ; ἀρτέμων; παρεμβολή; εἰ παι θητὸς ὁ Χριστός.

9. Translate Acts, xv. 14-20, explaining the expressions λaòv éπì TÝ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ, ἐπιστεῖλαι, ἀλισγήματα.

10. Translate Col. ii. 20–23, explaining the expressions tŵv σroixɛíwv τοῦ κόσμου, ἐθελοθρησκεία, ἀφειδία σώματος.

COMPOSITION.

Write a Sermon on the words

"Wherefore I say unto you, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much."

S. Luke, vii. 47.

a. Translate the rendering of this verse in the Targum of Jonathan :

b. Can you refer to any passage in which is used in

the same sense as here?