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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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The Event makes it evident, that in pronouncing this Curse, God had as much Respect to Adam's Posterity, as to himself: And so it was understood by his pious Posterity, before the Flood; as appears by what Lamech, the Father of Noah, says, Gen. v. 29. And he called his Name Noah; saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our Work, and the Toil of our Hands, "because of the Ground which the Lord hath cursed."
Another Thing which argues, that Adam's Posterity were included in the Threatening of Death, and that our first Parents understood, when fallen, that the Tempter, in persuading them to eat the forbidden Fruit, had aimed at the Punishment and Ruin of both them and their Posterity, & had procured it, is Adam's immediately giving his Wife that new Name, Eve, or Life, on the Promise or Intimation of the Disappointment and Overthrow of the Tempter in that Matter, by her Seed; which Adam understood to be by his procuring Life; not only for themselves, but for many of their Posterity, and thereby delivering them from that Death and Ruin which the Serpent had brought upon them. Those that should be thus delivered, and obtain Life, Adam calls the Living: and because he observed, by what God had said, that Deliverance and Life was to be by the Seed of the Woman, he therefore remarks, that she is the Mother of all Living, and thereupon gives her a new Name, calls her Chavah, LIFE, Gen. iii. 20.
Another Thing which argues, that Adam's Posterity were included in the Threatning of Death, and that our first Parents understood, when fallen, that the Tempter, in perswading them to eat the forbidden Fruit, had aimed at the Punishment and Ruin of both them and their Posterity, & had procured it, is Adam's immediately giving his Wife that new Name, Eve, or Life, on the Promise or Intimation of the Disappointment and Overthrow of the Tempter in that Matter, by her Seed; which Adam understood to be by his procuring Life; not only for themselves, but for many of their Posterity, and thereby delivering them from that Death and Ruin which the Serpent had brought upon them. Those that should be thus delivered, and obtain Life, Adam calls the Living: and because he observed, by what God had said, that Deliverance and Life was to be by the Seed of the Woman, he therefore remarks, that she is the Mother of all Living, and thereupon gives her a new Name, calls her Chavah, LIFE,