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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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Secondly, To suppose that there is no Law in Being, by which Men are exposed to Death for personal Sins, where or when the revealed Law of God in or after Moses's Time is not in Being, is contrary to this Apostle's own Doctrine in this Epistle. Rom. ii. 12,14,15. For as many as have sinned without Law (i. e. the […] Law) shall perish without Law. But how they […] be exposed to die and perish, who have not the Law of Moses, […] any revealed Law, the Apostle shows us in the 14th & 15th Verses; viz. In that they have the Law of Nature, by which they fall under Sentence to this Punishment. For when the Gentiles which have not the Law, do by Nature the Things contained in the Law, these having not the Law, are a Law to themselves; which show the Work of the ⟨p. 250⟩Law written in their Hearts; their Conscience also •earing Witness—Their Conscience not only bore Witness to the Duty prescribed by this Law, but also to the Punishment before spoken of, […] that which they who •in'd without Law, were liable to suffer, viz. that they should perish. In which the Apostle is yet more express, Chap. i. 32. speaking more especially of the Heathen, Wh• knowing the Judgment of God, that they which commit such Things are worthy of Death.—Dr. T. often calls the Law the Rule of Right: and this Rule of Right sentenced those Sinners to Death, who were not under the Law of Moses, according to this Author's own paraphrase of this Verse, in these Words, The Heathen were not ignorant of the Rule of Right, which God has implanted in the human Nature; and which shows that they which commit such Things, are deserving of Death. And he himself supposes Abraham, who lived between Adam and Moses, to be under Law, by which he would have been exposed to Punishment without Hope, were it not for the Promise of Grace,—in his Paraphrase on Rom. iv. 15.
Secondly, To suppose that there is no Law in Being, by which Men are exposed to Death for personal Sins, where or when the revealed Law of God in or after Moses's Time is not in Being, is contrary to this Apostle's own Doctrine in this Epistle.