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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 › Section 1
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And this Agent so often called Flesh, represented by the Apostle, as altogether evil, without any good Thing dwelling in it, or belonging to it, yea perfectly contrary to God and his Law, and tending wholly to Death and Ruin, and directly opposite to the Spirit, is what Christ speaks of to Nicodemus as born in the first Birth, as giving a Reason why there is a Necessity of a New-birth, in order to a better Production.
One thing is particularly observable in that Discourse of the Apostle, in the 7th and 8th of Romans, in which he so often uses the Term Flesh, as opposite to Spirit, which as well as many other things in his Discourse, makes it plain, that by Flesh he means something in itself corrupt and sinful; and that is, that he expressly calls it sinful Flesh, Rom. viii. 3. 'Tis manifest, that by sinful Flesh ⟨p. 203⟩he means the same Thing with that Flesh spoken of in the immediately foregoing and following Words, and in all the Context: And that when it is said, Christ was made in the Likeness of sinful Flesh, the Expression is equipollent with those that speak of Christ as made Sin, & made a Curse for us.
One thing is particularly observable in that Discourse of the Apostle, in the 7th and 8th of Romans, in which he so often uses the Term Flesh, as opposite to Spirit, which as well as many other things in his Discourse, makes it plain, that by Flesh he means something in itself corrupt and sinful; and that is, that he expresly calls it sinful Flesh, Rom. viii. 3. 'Tis manifest, that by sinful Flesh ⟨p. 203⟩he means the same Thing with that Flesh spoken of in the immediately foregoing and following Words, and in all the Context: And that when it is said, Christ was made in the Likeness of sinful Flesh, the Expression is equipollent with those that speak of Christ as made Sin, & made a Curse for us.