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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 1 › Chapter 1 › Section 1
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All Mankind do constantly in all Ages, without Fail in any one Instance, run into that moral Evil, which is in Effect their own utter and eternal Perdition, in a total Privation of GOD's Favour, and suffering of his Vengeance and Wrath.
BY Original Sin, as the Phrase has been most commonly used by Divines, is meant the innate sinful Depravity of the Heart. But yet when the Doctrine of original Sin is spoken of, it is vulgarly understood in that Latitude, as to include not only the Depravity of Nature, but the Imputation of Adam's ⟨p. 2⟩first Sin; or in other Words, the Liableness or Exposedness of Adam's Posterity, in the divine Judgment, to partake of the Punishment of that Sin. So far as I know, most of those who have held one of these, have maintained the other; and most of those who have opposed one have opposed the other: both are opposed by the Author chiefly attended to in the following Discourse in his Book against original Sin: And it may perhaps appear in our future Consideration of the Subject; that they are closely connected, and that the Arguments which prove the one establish the other, and that these are no more Difficulties attending the allowing of one than the other.
BY Original Sin, as the Phrase has been most commonly used by Divines, is meant the innate sinful Depravity of the Heart. But yet when the Doctrine of original Sin is spoken of, it is vulgarly understood in that Latitude, as to include not only the Depravity of Nature, but the Imputation of Adam's ⟨p. 2⟩first Sin; or in other Words, the Liableness or Exposedness of Adam's Posterity, in the divine Judgment, to partake of the Punishment of that Sin. So far as I know, most of those who have held one of these, have maintain'd the other; and most of those who have opposed one have opposed the other: both are opposed by the Author chiefly attended to in the following Discourse in his Book against original Sin: And it may perhaps appear in our future Consideration of the Subject; that they are closely connected, and that the Arguments which prove the one establish the other, and that these are no more Difficulties attending the allowing of one than the other.