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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 2
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Agreeable to these Places, is Prov. xxi. 8. The Way of MAN is froward and strange; but as for the pure, his Work is right. He that is perverse in his Walk, is here called by the Name of Man, as distinguished from the pure: which I think is absolutely unaccountable, if all Mankind by Nature are pure, and perfectly innocent, and all such as are froward and strange in their Ways, therein depart from the native Purity of all Mankind. The Words naturally lead us to suppose the contrary; that Depravity and Perverseness properly belong to Mankind as they are naturally, and that a Being made pure, is by an Afterwork, ⟨p. 187⟩work, by which some are delivered from native Pollution, and distinguished from Mankind in general: Which is perfectly agreeable to the Representation in Rev. xiv.4. Where we have an Account of a Number that were not defiled, but were pure, and following the Lamb, of whom it is said, These were REDEEMED FROM AMONG MEN.
Agreable to these Places, is Prov. xxi. 8. The Way of MAN is froward and strange; but as for the pure, his Work is right. He that is perverse in his Walk, is here called by the Name of Man, as distinguished from the pure: which I think is absolutely unaccountable, if all Mankind by Nature are pure, and perfectly innocent, and all such as are froward and strange in their Ways, therein depart from the native Purity of all Mankind. The Words naturally lead us to suppose the contrary; that Depravity and Perverseness properly belong to Mankind as they are naturally, and that a Being made pure, is by an Afterwork, ⟨p. 187⟩work, by which some are delivered from native Pollution, and distinguished from Mankind in general: Which is perfectly agreable to the Representation in Rev. xiv.4. Where we have an Account of a Number that were not defiled, but were pure, and following the Lamb, of whom it is said, These were REDEEMED FROM AMONG MEN.