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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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And yet even these Means have been ineffectual upon the far greater Part of them with whom they have been used; of the many that have been called, few have been chosen.
As to the Jews, God's ancient People, with whom they were used in the first Place, and used long by Christ and his Apostles, the Generality of them rejected Christ and his Gospel, with extreme Pertinaciousness of Spirit. ⟨p. 93⟩They not only went on still in that Career of Corruption, which had been increasing from the Time of the Maccabees; but Christ's Coming, and his Doctrine & Miracles, and the Preaching of his Followers, & the glorious Things that attended the same, were the Occasion, through' their perverse Improvement, of an infinite Increase of their Wickedness. They crucified the Lord of Glory, with the utmost Malice and Cruelty, and persecuted his Followers; they pleased not God, and were contrary to all Men; and went on to grow worse and worse, till they filled up the Measure of their Sin, and Wrath came upon them to the uttermost; and they were destroyed, and cast out of God's Sight, with unspeakably greater Tokens of the divine Abhorrence and Indignation, than in the Days of Nebuchadnezzar. The bigger Part of the whole Nation were slain, and the rest were scattered abroad through' the Earth, in the most abject and forlorn Circumstances. And in the same spirit of Unbelief and Malice against Christ and the Gospel, and in their miserable dispersed Circumstances, do they remain to this Day.
As to the Jews, God's ancient People, with whom they were used in the first Place, and used long by Christ and his Apostles, the Generality of them rejected Christ and his Gospel, with extreme Pertinaciousness of Spirit. ⟨p. 93⟩They not only went on still in that Career of Corruption, which had been increasing from the Time of the Maccabees; but Christ's Coming, and his Doctrine & Miracles, and the Preaching of his Followers, & the glorious Things that attended the same, were the Occasion, thro' their perverse Improvement, of an infinite Increase of their Wickedness. They crucified the Lord of Glory, with the utmost Malice and Cruelty, and persecuted his Followers; they pleased not God, and were contrary to all Men; and went on to grow worse and worse, till they filled up the Measure of their Sin, and Wrath came upon them to the uttermost; and they were destroyed, and cast out of God's Sight, with unspeakably greater Tokens of the divine Abhorrence and Indignation, than in the Days of Nebuchadnezzar. The bigger Part of the whole Nation were slain, and the rest were scattered abroad thro' the Earth, in the most abject and forlorn Circumstances. And in the same spirit of Unbelief and Malice against Christ and the Gospel, and in their miserable dispersed Circumstances, do they remain to this Day.