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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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3. The putting such a Sense on the Word, Sin, in this Place, is not only to make the Apostle greatly to disagree with himself in the Language he uses every where else, but also to disagree with himself no less in the Language he uses in this very Passage. He often here used the Word Sin, and other Words plainly of the same Design and Import, such as Transgression, Disobedience, Offence. Nothing can be more evident, than that these are here used as several Names of the same Thing; for they are used in•e• cha•ge•bly, and put one for another; as will be manifest only on the Cast of an Eye on the Place. And these Words are used no less than seventeen Times in this one Paragraph. Perhaps we shall find no Place in the whole Bible, in which the Word, Sin, and other Words synonymous, are used so often in so little Compass: and in all the Instances, in the proper Sense, as signifying moral Evil, and even so understood by Dr. T. himself (as appears by his own Exposition) but only in these two Places; where in the Midst of all, to evade a clear Evidence of the Doctrine of Original Sin, another Meaning must be found out, and it must be supposed that the Apostle uses the Word in a Sense •••irely different, signifying something that neither implies nor supposes any moral Evil at all in the Subject.
Here 'tis very remarkable, the Gentleman who so greatly insisted upon it, that the Word, Death, must needs be understood in the same Sense throughout this Paragraph; yea, that it is evidently, clearly and infallibly so, in as much as the Apostle is still discoursing on the same Subject; yet can, without the least Difficulty, suppose the Word, Sin, to be used so differently in the very same Passage, wherein the Apostle is discoursing on the same Thing. Let us take that one Instance in v. 12. Wherefore as by one Man SIN entered into the World, and Death by SIN, and so Death passed upon all Men, for that all have SINNED. Here, by Sin, implied in the Word, sinned, in the End of the Sentence, our Author understands something perfectly and altogether diverse from what is meant by the Word Sin, not only in the same Discourse, on the same