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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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Great Things were done in the Sight of the Nations of the World, tending to awaken them, and lead them to the Knowledge and Obedience of the true God, in Jacob's and Joseph's Time; in that God did miraculously, by the Hand of Joseph, preserve from perishing by Famine, as it were the whole World; as appears by Gen. xli. 56, 57. Agreeably to which, the Name that Pharaoh gave to Joseph, Zaphnath-Paaneah, as is said, in the Egyptian Language, signifies Saviour of the World. But there does not appear to have been any good abiding Effect of this; no, not so much as in the Nation of the Egyptians (which seems to have been the chief of all the heathen Nations at that Day) who had these great Works of Jehovah in their most immediate View: on the contrary, they grew worse and worse, and seem to be far more gross in their Idolatries, and Ignorance of the true God, and every Way more wicked, and ripe for Ruin, when Moses was sent to Pharaoh, than they were in Joseph's Time.
After this, in Moses and Joshua's Time, the great God was pleased to manifest himself in a Series of the most astonishing Miracles, for about fifty Years together, wrought in the most public Manner, in Egypt, in the Wilderness, and in Canaan, in the View as it were of the whole World; Miracles by which the World was shaken, the whole Frame of the visible Creation, Earth, Seas and Rivers, the Atmosphere, the Clouds, Sun, Moon and Stars, were affected; Miracles greatly tending to convince the Nations of the World, of the Vanity of their false Gods, showing JEHOVAH to be infinitely above them, in the Thing wherein they dealt most proudly, and exhibiting God's awful Displeasure at the Wickedness of the heathen World. And these Things are expressly spoken of as one End of these great Miracles, in Exod. ix. 15. Num. xiv. 21. Josh. xiv. 23, 24. & other Places. However, no Reformation followed these Things; but by the Scripture-Account, the Nations which had them most in View, were dreadfully hardened, stupidly refusing all Conviction ⟨p. 82⟩