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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 3
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CHAP. III.
Observations on various other Places of Scripture, principally of the New Testament, proving the Doctrine of Original Sin.
SECT. I.
Observations on Joh. III. 6. in Connection with some other Passages in the New Testament.
Those Words of Christ, giving a Reason to Nicodemus, why we must be born again, Joh. iii. 6. That which is born of the Flesh, is Flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit, is Spirit; have not without good Reason been produced by Divines, as a Proof of the Doctrine of Original Sin: supposing, that by Flesh here is meant the human Nature in a debased and corrupt State. Yet Dr.T.(P. 144.) thus explains these Words, That which is born of the Flesh, is Flesh; That which is born by natural Descent and Propagation, is a Man consisting of Body and Soul, or the mere Constitution and Powers of a Man, in their natural State. But the constant […] of these Terms, Flesh, and Spirit, in other Parts of the New Testament, when thus set in Opposition one to another, and the latter said to be produced by the Spirit of God,