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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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If a Minister in some Congregation in England, speaking in a Sermon of the Sins of the Nation, being himself of the Nation, should say, WE have greatly corrupted our selves, & provoked God by our Deism, our Blasphemy, our profane Swearing, our Lasciviousness, our Venality, &c. speaking in the first Person plural, tho' h• himself never had been a Deist, and perhaps none of his Hearers, and they might also have been generally free from other Sins he mentioned; yet there would be nothing unnatural in his thus expressing himself. But it would be a quite different Thing, if one Part of the British Dominions, suppose our King's American Dominions, had universally apostatized from Christianity to Deism, and had long been in such a State, and if One that had been born and brought up in England among Christians, the Country being universally Christian, should be sent among them to show them the Folly and great Evil of Deism, and convert them to Christianity; and this Missionary, when making a Distinction between English Christians, and these Deists, should rank himself with the latter, and say, WE American Deists, We foolish blind Infidels &c. This indeed would be very unnatural and absurd.
If a Minister in some Congregation in England, speaking in a Sermon of the Sins of the Nation, being himself of the Nation, should say, WE have greatly corrupted our selves, & provoked God by our Deism, our Blasphemy, our profane Swearing, our Lasciviousness, our Venality, &c. speaking in the first Person plural, tho' h• himself never had been a Deist, and perhaps none of his Hearers, and they might also have been generally free from other Sins he mention'd; yet there would be nothing unnatural in his thus expressing himself. But it would be a quite different Thing, if one Part of the British Dominions, suppose our King's American Dominions, had universally apostatized from Christianity to Deism, and had long been in such a State, and if One that had been born and brought up in England among Christians, the Country being universally Christian, should be sent among them to shew them the Folly and great Evil of Deism, and convert them to Christianity; and this Missionary, when making a Distinction between English Christians, and these Deists, should rank himself with the latter, and say, WE American Deists, We foolish blind Infidels &c. This indeed would be very unnatural and absurd.