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The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended
The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended; evidences of it's [sic] truth produced, and arguments to the contrary answered. Containing, in particular, a reply to the objections and arguings of Dr. John Taylor, in his book, entitled, "The Scripture-doctrine of original sin proposed to free and candid examination, &c. / By the late Reverend and learned Jonathan Edwards, president of the College of New-Jersey. ; [Thirteen lines of quotations]The great Christian doctrine of original sin defended; evidences of it's [sic] truth produced, and arguments to the contrary answered. Containing, in particular, a reply to the objections and arguings of Dr. John Taylor, in his book, intitled, "The Scripture-doctrine of original sin proposed to free and candid examination, &c. / By the late Reverend and learned Jonathan Edwards, president of the College of New-Jersey. ; [Thirteen lines of quotations]
printed by S. Kneeland, 1758
The great Christian Doctrine of ORIGINAL SIN defended. › Part 1 › Chapter 1 › Section 3
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under a Notion that it may probably go great Part of the Way before it sinks, or that it will proceed and sail above Water more Hours than it will be in sinking:—Or, to pronounce that Road a good Road to go to such a Place, the greater Part of which is plain and safe, tho' some Parts of it are dangerous, and certainly fatal to them that travel in it; or to call that a good Propensity, which is an inflexible Inclination to travel in such a Way.
under a Notion that it may probably go great Part of the Way before it sinks, or that it will proceed and sail above Water more Hours than it will be in sinking:—Or, to pronounce thatRoad a good Road to go to such a Place, the greater Part of which is plain and safe, tho' some Parts of it are dangerous, and certainly fatal to them that travel in it; or to call that a good Propensity, which is an inflexible Inclination to travel in such a Way.
A Propensity to that Sin which brings God's eternal Wrath and Curse (which has been proved to belong to the Nature of Man) is not evil, only as it is calamitous and sorrowful, ending in great natural Evil; but it is odious too, and detestable; as, by the Supposition, it tends to that moral Evil, by which the Subject becomes odious in the Sight of God, and liable, as such, to be condemned, and utterly rejected and cursed by him. This also makes it evident, that the State which it has been proved Mankind are in, is a corrupt State in a moral Sense, that it is inconsistent with the Fulfilment of the Law of God, which is the Rule of moral Rectitude and Goodness. That Tendency, which is opposite to that which the moral Law requires and insists upon, and prone to that which the moral Law utterly forbids, and eternally condemns ⟨p. 29⟩the Subject for, is doubtless a corrupt Tendency, in a moral Sense.