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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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1. Those Words, In the Day thou •atest there of thou shalt surely die, according to the Use of such like Expressions among the Hebrews, don't signify immedi••• Death, or that the Execution shall be within twenty-four Hours from the Commission of the Fact; nor did God by those Words, limit himself as to the Time of executing the threatened Punishment; but that was still left to God's Pleasure. Such a Phrase, according to the Idiom of the Hebrew Tongue, signifies no more than these two Things:
1. Those Words, In the Day thou •atest there of thou shalt surely die, according to the Use of such like Expressions among the Hebrews, don't signify immedi••• Death, or that the Execution shall be within twenty-four Hours from the Commission of the Fact; nor did God by those Words, limit himself as to the Time of ex•cuting the threaten'd Punishment; but that was still left to God's Pleasure. Such a Phrase, according to the Idi•m of the Hebrew Tongue, signifies no more than these two Things:
1. A real Connection between the Sin and the Punishment. So Ezek. xxxiii. 12, 13. The Righteousness of the Righteous shall not deliver him IN THE DAY of his Transgression. As for the Wickedness of the Wicked, He shall not fall thereby IN THE DAY that the turneth from his Wickedness: Neither shall the Righteous be able to live IN THE DAY THAT HE SINNETH: But for his Iniquity that he hath committed, ⟨p. 181⟩HE SHALL DIE for it. Here […] said, that in the Day he sinneth, he shall not be able to live, but he shall die; not signifying the Time when Death shall be executed upon him, but the Connection […] his Sin & Death; such a Connection as in our present common Use of Language is signified by the Adverb of Time. When; As if One should say, According to the Laws of our Nation, so long as a Man behaves Himself as a good Subject, he may live; but When he turns Rebel, he must die: Not signifying the Hour, Day or Month, in which he must be executed, but only the Connection between his Crime and Death.