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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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Dr. T. (Key, § 1.) truly observes, That God has from the Beginning exercised wonderful and infinite Wisdom, in the Methods he has, from Age to Age, made use of to oppose Vice, cure Corruption, and promote Virtue in the World; and introduced several Schemes to that End. 'Tis indeed remarkable, how many Schemes and Methods were tried of old, both before and after the Flood; how many were used in the Times of the Old Testament, both with Jews and Heathens; and how ineffectual all these ancient Methods proved, for 4000 Years together, till God introduced that grand Dispensation, for the r• deeming Men from all Iniquity, and purifying them so himself, a People zealous of good Works; which the Scripture represents as the Subject of the Admiration of Angels. But even this has; now so long, proved so ineffectual, with respect to the Generality, that Dr. T. thinks there is Need of a new Dispensation; Christians being now, as he says, in a Manner reduced to a State of Religion, as low as that of Heathenism, & may be ranked among the Dead; the present Light of the Gospel proving insufficient for the full Reformation of the Christian World. (Note on Rom. i. 27.)—And yet all these Things, according to him, without any natural B•a•s to the contrary; no Stream of natural Inclination or Propensity at all, to oppose Inducements to Goodness; no native Opposition of Heart, to withstand those gracious Means, which God has ever used with Mankind, from the Beginning of the World to this Day; any more than there was in the Heart of Adam, the Moment God created him in perfect Innocence.
Dr. T. (Key, § 1.) truly observes, That God has from the Beginning exercised wonderful and infinite Wisdom, in the Methods he has, from Age to Age, made use of to oppose Vice, cure Corruption, and promote Virtue in the World; and introduced several Schemes to that End. 'Tis indeed remarkable, how many Schemes and Methods were tried of old, both before and after the Flood; how many were used in the Times of the Old Testament, both with Jews and Heathens; and how ineffectual all these antient Methods proved, for 4000 Years together, till God introduced that grand Dispensation, for the r• deeming Men from all Iniquity, and purifying them so himself, a People zealous of good Works; which the Scripture represents as the Subject of the Admiration of Angels. But even this has; now so long, proved so ineffectual, with respect to the Generality, that Dr. T. thinks there is Need of a new Dispensation; Christians being now, as he says, in a Manner reduced to a State of Religion, as low as that of Heathenism, & may be ranked among the Dead; the present Light of the Gospel proving insufficient for the full Reformation of the Christian World. (Note on