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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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II. Dr. T—r's Explanation of this Passage makes wholly insignificant those first Words, By one Man, Sin entered into the World, and leaves this Proposition without any Sense or Signification at all. The Apostle had been largely and elaborately representing, how the whole World was full of Sin, in all Parts of it, both among Jews and Gentiles, and all exposed to Death & Condemnation. 'Tis plain, that in these Words he would tell us, how this came to pass, namely, that this sorrowful Event came by one Man, even the first Man. That the World was full of Sin, and full of Death, were two great and notorious Facts, deeply affecting the Interests of Mankind; and they seemed very wonderful Facts, drawing the Attention of the more thinking Part of Mankind every where, who often asked this Question, Whence comes Evil, moral and natural Evil? (The latter chiefly visible in Death.) 'Tis manifest, the Apostle here means to tell us, how these came into the World, and came to prevail in it as they do. But all that is meant, according to Dr. T—r's Interpretation, is, " He begun Transgression." *As if all that the Apostle meant, was, to tell us who happened to sin first; not how such a Malady came upon the World, or how any one in the World, besides Adam himself, came by such a Distemper. The Words of the Apostle, By one Man Sin entered INTO THE WORLD, and Death by Sin, show the Design to be, to tell us how these Evils came, as affecting the State of the World; and not only as reaching one Man in the World. If this were not plain enough in itself, the Words immediately following demonstrate it; And so Death passed upon ALL MEN, for that all have sinned. By Sin's being in the World, the Apostle don't mean being in the World only in that one Instance of Adam's first Transgression, but being abroad in the World, among the Inhabitants of the Earth, in a wide Extent and continued Series of Wickedness; as is plain in the first Words of the next Verse, For until the Law, Sin was ⟨p. 243⟩IN THE WORLD. And therefore when he gives us an Account how it came to be in the World, or which is the same Thing, how it entered into the World, he don't mean only coming in in one Instance.
II. Dr. T—r's Explanation of this Passage makes wholly insignificant those first Words, By one Man, Sin enter'd into the World, and leaves this Proposition without any Sense or Signification at all. The Apostle had been largely and elaborately representing, how the whole World was full of Sin, in all Parts of it, both among Jews and Gentiles, and all exposed to Death & Condemnation. 'Tis plain, that in these Words he would tell us, how this came to pass, namely, that this sorrowful Event came by one Man, even the first Man. That the World was full of Sin, and full of Death, were two great and notorious Facts, deeply affecting the Interests of Mankind; and they seemed very wonderful Facts, drawing the Attention of the more thinking Part of Mankind every where, who often asked this Question, Whence comes Evil, moral and natural Evil? (The latter chiefly visible in Death.) 'Tis manifest, the Apostle here means to tell us, how these came into the World, and came to prevail in it as they do. But all that is meant, according to Dr. T—r's Interpretation, is, " He begun Transgression."