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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 4 › Chapter 3
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By Reason of the established Union between Adam and his Posterity, the Case is far otherwise between him & them, than it is between distinct Parts or Individuals of Adam's Race; betwixt whom is no such constituted Union: As, between Children & other Ancestors. Concerning whom is ⟨p. 351⟩apparently to be understood that Place, Ezek. xviii. 1,—20.* Where God reproves the Jews for the Use they made of that Proverb, The Fathers have eaten sour Grapes, and the Children's Teeth are set on Edge; and tells them, that hereafter they shall no more have Occasion to use this Proverb; and that if a Son sees the Wickedness of his Father, and sincerely disapproves it and avoids it, and he himself is righteous, he shall not die for the Iniquity of his Father; that all Souls, both the Soul of the Father and the Son, are his; and that therefore the Son shall not bear the Iniquity of his Father, nor the Father bear the Iniquity of the Son; but the Soul that sinneth, it shall die; that the Righteousness of the Righteous shall be upon him, and the Wickedness of the Wicked shall be upon him. The Thing denied, is Communion in the Guilt and Punishment of the Sins of others, that are distinct Parts of Adam's Race; and expressly, in that Case, where there is no Consent and Concurrence, but a sincere Disapprobation of the Wickedness of Ancestors. It is declared, that Children who are adult and come to act for themselves, who are righteous, and don't approve of, but sincerely condemn the Wickedness of their Fathers, shall not be punished for their disapproved and avoided Iniquities. The Occasion of what is here said, as well as the Design and plain Sense, shows, that Nothing is here intended in the least Degree inconsistent with what has been supposed concerning Adam's Posterity's sinning and falling in his Apostasy.—The Occasion is, the People's murmuring at God's Methods under the Mosaic Dispensation; agreeable to that in Levit. xxvi.29. And they that are left of you, shall pine away in their Iniquity in their Enemies Land, and also in the Iniquities of their Fathers shall they pine away with them.
By Reason of the established Union between Adam and his Posterity, theCase is far otherwise between him & them, than it is between distinct Parts or Individuals of Adam's Race; betwixt whom is no such constituted Union: As, between Children & other Ancestors. Concerning whom is