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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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There is a great deal of Evidence, that this is the Occasion of Adams giving his Wife her new Name. This was her new Honour, & the greatest Honour, at least in her present State, that the Redeemer was to be of her Seed. New Names were wont to be given for something that was the Persons peculiar Honour. So it was with regard to the new Names of Abraham, Sarah, and Israel. Dr. T. himself (Key § 255.) observes, that they who are saved by Christ, are called the Livers, [Greek or Hebrew] (1 Cor. iv. 11.) The living, or, they that live. So we find in the old Testament, the Righteous are called by the name of the Living. Psal. lxix. 28. Let them be blotted out of the Book of the Living, and not be written with the Righteous. If what Adam meant by her being the Mother of all Living, was only her being the Mother of Mankind, and gave her the Name Life upon that Account, it were much the most likely that he would have given her this Name at first; when God first united them, under that Blessing. Be fruitful and multiply, and when he had a Prospect of her being the Mother of Mankind in a State of Immortality, living indeed, living and never dying. But that Adam should at that Time give her only the Name of Isha, and then immediately on that melancholy Change, by their coming under the Sentence of Death, with all their Posterity, having now a new awful Prospect of her being the Mother of Nothing but a dying Race, all from Generation to Generation turning to Dust, through' her Folly: I say, that immediately on this, he should change her Name into Life, calling her now the Mother of all living, is perfectly unaccountable. Besides, it is manifest, that it was not her being the Mother of all Mankind, or her Relation as a Mother, which she stood in to her Posterity, but the Quality of those she was to be the Mother of, which was the Thing Adam had in View, in giving his Wife this new Name; as appears by the Name it self, which signifies Life. And if it had been only a natural and mortal Life which he had in View, this was Nothing distinguishing of ⟨p. 179⟩her Posterity from the Brutes; for the very same Name of living ones, or living Things, is given from Time to Time in this Book of Genesis to them: As in Chap. i. 21, 24, 28. Chap. ii. 19. Chap. vi.19.—vii. 23. & viii. 1.
There is a great deal of Evidence, that this is the Occasion of Adams giving his Wife her new Name. This was her new Honour, & the greatest Honour, at least in her present State, that the Redeemer was to be of her Seed. New Names were wont to be given for something that was the Persons peculiar Honour. So it was with regard to the new Names of Abraham, Sarah, and Israel. Dr. T. himself (Key § 255.) observes, that they who are saved by Christ, are called the Livers, (