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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 I shall take Notice of one or two Things further showing that Adam's Posterity were included in God's Establishment with him, and the Threatening denounced for his Sin; and that the Calamities which come upon them in Consequence of his Sin, are brought on them as Punishments.
But I shall take Notice of one or two Things further shewing that Adam's Posterity were included in God's Establishment with him, and the Threatning denounced for his Sin; and that the Calamities which come upon them in Consequence of his Sin, are brought on them as Punishments.
This is evident from the Curse on the Ground; which if it be any Curse at all, comes equally on Adam's Posterity with himself. And if it be a Curse, then against whomsoever it is designed, and on whomsoever it terminates, it comes as a Punishment, and not as a Blessing, so far as it comes in Consequence of that Sentence.
Dr. T. (P. 19.) says, A Curse is pronounced upon the Ground, but no Curse upon the Woman and the Man. And in P. 321, 322. He insists, that the Ground only was cursed, and not the Man: Just as tho' a Curse could terminate on lifeless, senseless Earth! To understand this Curse otherwise than as terminating upon Man, through' the Ground, would be as senseless as to suppose the Meaning to be, The Ground shall be punished, and shall be miserable for thy sake. Our Author interprets the Curse on the ⟨p. 176⟩Ground, of it's being encumbered with noxious Weeds: But would these Weeds have been any Curse on the Ground, if there had been no Inhabitants, or if the Inhabitants had been of such a Nature, that these Weeds should not have been noxious, but useful to 'em? It is said,