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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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Now as to the Consequence which I infer from Adam's giving his Wife this Name, on the Intimation which God had given, that Satan should by her Seed be overthrown and disappointed, as to his malicious Design, in that Deed of his which God then spake of, viz. his tempting the Woman; Adam infers from it, that great Numbers of Mankind should be saved, whom he calls the Living; they should be saved from the Effects of this malicious Design of the old Serpent, and from that Ruin which he had brought upon them by tempting their first Parents to Sin; and so the Serpent would be, with respect to them, disappointed and overthrown in his Design. But how is any Death or ⟨p. 180⟩Ruin, or indeed any Calamity at all […] upon their […] by Satan's Malice in that […], if instead of that, all the Death and Sorrow that […] consequent, was the Fruit of God's fatherly Love, & not Satan's Malice, and was an Instance of God's free and sovereign Favour, […] Favour as Satan could not possibly foresee? And if Multitudes of Eve's Posterity are saved, from either spiritual or temporal Death, by a […], of her Seed, how is that any Disappointment of Satan's Design, in tempting our first Parents? How came he to have any such Thing in View, as the Death of Adam's and Ev•'s Posterity by tempting them to Sin, or any Expectation that their Death would be the Consequence, unless he knew that they were included in the Threatening?
Now as to the Consequence which I infer from Adam's giving his Wife this Name, on the Intimation which God had given, that Satan should by her Seed be overthrown and disappointed, as to his malicious Design, in that Deed of his which God then spake of, viz. his tempting the Woman; Adam infers from it, that great Numbers of Mankind should be saved, whom he calls the Living; they should be saved from the Effects of this malicious Design of the old Serpent, and from that Ruin which he had brought upon them by tempting their first Parents to Sin; and so the Serpent would be, with respect to them, disappointed and overthrown in his Design. But how is any Death or ⟨p. 180⟩Ruin, or indeed any Calamity at all 〈…〉 upon their 〈…〉 by Satan's Malice in that 〈…〉, if instead of that, all the Death and Sorrow that consequent, was the Fruit of God's fatherly Love, & not Satan's Malice, and was an Instance of God's free and sovereign Favour, Favour as Satan could not possibly foresee? And if Multitudes of Eve's Posterity are saved, from either spiritual or temporal Death, by a , of her Seed, how is that any Disappointment of Satan's Design, in tempting our first Parents? How came he to have any such Thing in View, as the Death of Adam's and Ev's Posterity by tempting them to Sin, or any Expectation that their Death would be the Consequence, unless he knew that they were included in the Threatning?