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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 4 › Section 1
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SECT. I.
Remarks on Dr. T—r's▪ Way of explaining this Text.
THE following Things are worthy to be taken Notice of, concerning our Author's Exposition of this remarkable Passage of the Apostle Paul.
1. He greatly insists that by Death in this Place no more is meant, than that Death which we all die, when this present Life is extinguished, and the Body returns to the Dust; that no more is meant in the 12, 14, 15, and 17th Verses. P. 27. he speaks of it as evidently, clearly and infallibly so, because the Apostle is still discoursing on the same Subject; plainly implying, that it must most infallibly be so, that the Apostle means no more by Death, throughout this Paragraph on the Subject. But as infallible as this is, if we believe what Dr.T. elsewhere says, it must needs be otherwise. He, in P.396, speaking of those Words in the last Verse of the next Chapter, The Wages of Sin is DEATH, but the Gift of God is ETERNAL LIFE, through' Jesus Christ our Lord, says, Death in this Place is widely different from the Death we now die; as it stands there opposed to eternal Life, which is the Gift of God through' Jesus Christ, it manifestly signifies eternal Death, the second Death, or that Death which they shall here after die, who live after the Flesh. But Death, in the Conclusion of the Paragraph we are upon in the 5th Chapter, concerning the Death that comes by Adam, and the Life that comes by Christ, in the last v. of the Chapter, is opposed to eternal Life, just in the same Manner