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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 3 › Chapter 2
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But in order to proceed in the most sure & safe Manner, in our understanding what is meant in Scripture by being born again, and so in the Inferences we draw from what is said of the Necessity of it, let us compare Scripture with Scripture, and consider what other Terms or Phrases are used, in other Places, where Respect is evidently had to the same Change. And here I would observe the following Things.
I. If we compare one Scripture with another, it will be sufficiently manifest, that by Regeneration, or being begotten or born again, the same Change in the State of the Mind is signified, with that which the Scripture speaks of as effected in true REPENTANCE and CONVERSION. I put Repentance and Conversion together, because the Scripture puts them together, Act. iii. 19. and because they plainly signify much the same Thing. The Word, [Greek or Hebrew] (Repentance) signifies a Change of the Mind; as the Word, Conversion, means a Change or Turning from Sin to God. And that this is the same Change with that which is called Regeneration (excepting that this latter Term especially signifies the Change, as the Mind is passive in it) the following Things do show.
I. If we compare one Scripture with another, it will be sufficiently manifest, that by Regeneration, or being begotten or born again, the same Change in the State of the Mind is signified, with that which the Scripture speaks of as effected in true REPENTANCE and CONVERSION. I put Repentance and Conversion together, because the Scripture puts them together, Act. iii. 19. and because they plainly signify much the same Thing. The Word, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 (Repentance) signifies a Change of the Mind; as the Word, Conversion, means a Change or Turning from Sin to God. And that this is the same Change with that which is called Regeneration (excepting that this latter Term especially signifies the Change, as the Mind is passive in it) the following Things do shew.