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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 2 › Chapter 1 › Section 2
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When I say unto the wicked Man, Thou shalt surely die. In the Original, Dying thou shalt die.—The same Form of Expression, which God used in the Threatening to Adam. We have the same Words again, Chap. xxxiii. 18.—In Chap. xviii. 4. it is said, The Soul that sinneth, it shall die. To the like Purpose are Chap. iii. 19, 20. & xviii. 4, 5, 10, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 26, 28. Chap. xxxiii. 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 19, 20. And that temporal Death is not meant in these Places, is plain, because it is promised most absolutely that the Righteous shall not die the Death spoken of. Chap▪xvii.21. He shall surely live, he shall not die. So v. 9, 17, 19 & 22. and Chap. iii. 21. And 'tis evident, the Prophet Jeremiah uses the Word in the same Sense; Jer. xxxi. 30. Every one shall die for his own Iniquity. And the same Death is spoken of by the Prophet Isaiah. Isai. xi. 4. With the Breath of his Lips shall be slay the Wicked. See also Chap. lxi. 16. with v. 24.—Solomon, who we must suppose was thoroughly acquainted with the Sense in which the Word was used by the Wise, and by the Ancients, continually speaks of Death as the proper Fruit, Issue and Recompense of Sin, using the Word only in this Sense. Chap. xi. 19. As Righteousness tendeth to Life, so he that pursueth Evil, pursueth it to his own Death. So Chap. xviii. 32. x. 21. xiv. 12. xix. 16. i. 18, 32. i. 18. v. 5, 6, 23. vii. 22, 26, 27. ix. 18. xi. 19. xv. 10. xviii. 21. xxi. 16. & xxiii. 13, 14. In these Places, he cannot mean temporal Death; for he often speaks of it as a Punishment of the Wicked, wherein the Righteous shall certainly be distinguished from 'em: as in Prov. xii. 2•. In the Way of Righteousness is Life, and in the Pathway ⟨p. 160⟩thereof is no Death. So in Chap. x.2.—xi.4.—xiii. 14.—xiv. 27. and many other Places. But we find, this same Wise man observes, that as to temporal Death, and temporal Events in general, there is no Distinction, but that they happen alike to good and bad. Eccl. ii. 14, 15, 16.—viii. 14. & ix. 2,3. His Words are remarkable in