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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 8
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Then God used further Means: He sent Noah, a ⟨p. 78⟩Preacher of Righteousness, to warn the World, of the universal Destruction which would come upon them by a Flood of Waters, if they went on in Sin. Which Warning he delivered with these Circumstances, tending to strike their Minds, and command their Attention; that he immediately went about building that vast Structure of the Ark; in which he must employ a great Number of Hands, and probably spent all he had in the World to save himself & his Family. And under these uncommon Means, God waited upon them 120 Years.—But all to no Effect. The whole World, for ought appears, continued obstinate, and absolutely incorrigible: So that Nothing remained to be done with them, but utterly to destroy the Inhabitants of the Earth; and to begin a new World, from that single Family who had distinguished themselves by their Virtue; that from them might be propagated a new and purer Race.—Accordingly this was done: And the Inhabitants of the new World, of Noah's Posterity, had these new and extraordinary Means to restrain Sin and excite Virtue, in Addition to the Toil, Sorrow, and common Mortality, which the World had been subjected to before in Consequence of Adam's Sin; viz. that God had newly testified his dreadful Displeasure for Sin, in destroying the many Millions of Mankind, all at one blow, old and young, Men, Women and Children, without Pity on any for all the dismal Shrieks and Cries which the World was filled with; when they themselves, the remaining Family, were so wonderfully distinguished by God's preserving Goodness, that they might be a holy Seed, being delivered from the corrupting Examples of the old World; and being all the Offspring of a living Parent, whose pious Instructions and Counsels they had, to enforce these Things upon them, to prevent Sin, and engage them to their Duty. And these Inhabitants of the new Earth must, for a long Time, have before their Eyes many evident, and as it were fresh and striking Effects and Signs of that universal Destruction, to be a continual affecting Admonition to 'em. And besides all this, God now shortened the ⟨p. 79⟩Life of Man, to about one half of what it used to be. The shortening Man's Life, Dr. T. says, P. 68. Was, that the wild Range of Ambition and Lust might be brought into narrower Bounds, and have less Opportunity of doing Mischief;
Then God used further Means: He sent Noah, a