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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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cxxxix. 19. Surely Thou wilt slay the Wicked, O God. And he speaks of it as a Thing wherein the Wicked are distinguished from the Righteous, Psal. lxix. 28. Let them be blotted out of the Book of the Living, and not be written with the Righteous.—And thus we find the Word Death used in the Pentateuch, or Books of Moses: in which Part of the Scripture it is, that we have the Account of the Threatening of Death to Adam. When Death, in these Books, is spoken of as the proper Fruit & appointed Reward of Sin, it is to be understood of eternal Death. So Deut. xxx. 15. See, I have set before thee this Day, Life and Good, and Death and Evil. Ver. 19. I call Heaven and Earth to Record this Day against you, that I have set before you Life and Death, Blessing & Cursing. The Life that is spoken of here, is doubtless the same that is spoken of in Lev. xviii. 5.Ye shall therefore keep my Statutes and my Judgments, which if a Man do, he shall live in them. This the Apostle understands of eternal Life; as is plain by Rom. x. 5. and Gal. iii. 12.—But that the Death threatened for Sin in the Law of Moses meant eternal Death, is what Dr.T abundantly declares. So in his Note on Rom. v. 20. Such a Constitution the Law of Moses was, subjecting those who were under it to Death for every Transgression; meaning by Death ETERNAL DEATH. These are his Words. The like he asserts ⟨p. 161⟩in many other Places. When it is said, in the Place now mentioned, I have set before thee Life & Death, Blessing and Cursing, without doubt, the same Blessing and Cursing is meant which God had already set before them with such Solemnity, in the 27th and 28th Chapters; where we have the Sum of the Curses in those last Words of the 27th Chapter, Cursed is every one, which confirmeth not all the Words of this Law to do them. Which the Apostle speaks of as a Threatening of eternal Death; and with him Dr. T. himself.*