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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 3
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But lest any of this Author's Admirers should stand to it, that it may very properly be said, God threatened Mankind with bestowing great Kindness upon them, I would observe, that Dr. T. often speaks of this Sentence as pronounced by God on all Mankind as condemning them, speaks of it as a Sentence of Condemnation judicially pronounced, or a Sentence which God pronounced on all Mankind acting as their Judge, and in a judicial Proceeding: Which he affirms in Multitudes of Places. In P. 20. speaking of this Sentence, which, he there says, subjects us, Adam's and Eve's Posterity, to Affliction and Mortality, he calls it a judicial Act of Condemnation. The judicial Act of Condemnation (says he) clearly implies, a taking him to Pieces, and turning him to the Ground, from whence he was taken. And P. 28, 29. In all the Scripture, from one End to the other, there is recorded but one Judgment to Condemnation, which came upon all Men, and that is, Gen. iii. 17, 18, 19. Dust thou art, &c. P. 40. speaking of the same, he says, "All Men are brought under Condemnation." In ⟨p. 168⟩P. 27, 28. By Judgment, Judgment of Condemnation, it appeareth evidently to me, he [Paul] means the being adjudged to the forementioned Death; he means the Sentence of Death, of a general Mortality, pronounced upon Mankind, in Consequence of Adam's first Transgression. And the Condemnation inflicted by the Judgment of God, answereth to, and is in Effect the same Thing with, being dead. P. 30. The many, that is Mankind, were subject to Death by the judicial Act of God. P. 31. Being made Sinners, may very well signify, being adjudged, or condemned to Death.—For the Hebrew Word, &c. signifies to make one a Sinner by a judicial Sentence, or to condemn. —Paraph. on Rom. V. 19. in his Exp. of the Epistle, Upon the Account of one Man's Disobedience, Mankind were judicially constituted Sinners; that is, subjected to Death, by the Sentence of God the Judge. And there are many other Places where he repeats the same Thing. And 'tis pretty remarkable, that in P. 48, 49. immediately after citing Prov. xvii. 15. He that justifieth the Wicked, and he that condemneth the Just, are both an Abomination to the Lord; And when he is careful in citing these Words, to put us in Mind, that it is meant of a judicial Act;