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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 3
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Joh. viii. 33,—44. It may also be observed, that John the Baptist greatly ••••radicted the Jews Opinion of Themselves, as being a holy People, and accepted of God, because they were the Children of Abraham, and on that Account better than the Heathen, whom they called Sinners, Enemies, Unclean, &c. in baptizing the Jews as a polluted People and Sinners, as the Jews used to baptize proselytes from among the Heathen; calling them to Repentance as Sinners, saying, Think not to say within your […], We have Abraham to our Father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these Stones, to raise up Children unto Abraham; and teaching the Pharisees that instead of their being a holy Generation and Children of God, as they called themselves, they were a Generation of Vipers.
Joh. viii. 33,—44. It may also be observed, that John the Baptist greatly ••••radicted the Jews Opinion of Themselves, as being a holy People, and accepted of God, because they were the Children of Abraham, and on that Account better than the Heathen, whom they called Sinners, Enemies, Unclean, &c. in baptizing the Jews as a polluted People and Sinners, as the Jews used to baptize proselytes from among the Heathen; calling them to Repentance as Sinners, saying, Think not to say within your 〈…〉, We have Abraham to our Father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these Stones, to raise up Children unto Abraham; and teaching the Pharisees that instead of their being a holy Generation and Children of God, as they called themselves, they were a Generation of Vipers.
3. Tho' we should suppose the Apostles not to have been thoroughly brought off from such Notions, Manners and Language of the Jews, till after Christ's Ascension; yet after the pouring out of the Spirit on the Day of […], or at least, after the Calling of the Gentiles, begun in the Conversion of Cornelius, they were fully indoctried in this Matter, and effectually taught no longer to call the Gentiles Unclean, as a Note of Distinction from the Jews (