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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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yet in the very next Words, he supposes that God himself does so, since he constantly supposes that Adam's Posterity whom God condemns, are innocent. His Words are these, From all which it followeth, that the Judgment that passed upon all Men to Condemnation, is Death's coming upon all Men, by the judicial Act of God, upon Occasion of Adam's Transgression.—And 'tis very remarkable, that in P. 279, 280, and 283 he insists, That in Scripture no Action is said to be imputed, r•• kon'd or accounted to any Person, either for Righteousness or CONDEMNATION, but the proper Act and Deed of that Person.—And yet he thus continually affirms, that all Mankind are made Sinners by a judicial Act of God the Judge, even to Condemnation, and judicially constituted Sinners, and so subjected to a judicial ⟨p. 169⟩Sentence of Condemnation, on Occasion of Adam's Sin; and all according to the Threatening denounced to Adam, Thou shalt surely die: Tho' he supposes Adam's Posterity were not included in the Threatening, and are looked upon as perfectly innocent, and treated wholly as such.
yet in the very next Words, he supposes that God himself does so, since he constantly supposes that Adam's Posterity whom God condemns, are innocent. His Words are these, From all which it followeth, that the Judgment that passed upon all Men to Condemnation, is Death's coming upon all Men, by the judicial Act of God, upon Occasion of Adam's Transgression.—And 'tis very remarkable, that in P. 279, 280, and 283 he insists, That in Scripture no Action is said to be imputed, r•• kon'd or accounted to any Person, either for Righteousness or CONDEMNATION, but the proper Act and Deed of that Person.—And yet he thus continually affirms, that all Mankind are made Sinners by a judicial Act of God the Judge, even to Condemnation, and judicially constituted Sinners, and so subjected to a judicial ⟨p. 169⟩Sentence of Condemnation, on Occasion of Adam's Sin; and all according to the Threatning denounced to Adam, Thou shalt surely die: Tho' he supposes Adam's Posterity were not included in the Threatning, and are looked upon as perfectly innocent, and treated wholly as such.