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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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And other parallel Places, respecting external Judgments, which were the Punishments most plainly threatened, and chiefly insisted on, under that Dispensation (which was, as it were, an external ⟨p. 352⟩and carnal Covenant) and particularly the People's suffering such terrible Judgments at that Day, even in Ezekiel's Time, for the Sins of Manasseh; according to what God says by Jeremiah (Jer. xv. 4.) and agreeable to what is said in that Confession, Lam. v. 9. Our Fathers have sinned and are not, and we have borne their Iniquities.
And other parallel Places, respecting external Judgments, which were the Punishments most plainly threaten'd, and chiefly insisted on, under that Dispensation (which was, as it were, an external ⟨p. 352⟩and carnal Covenant) and particularly the People's suffering such terrible Judgments at that Day, even in Ezekiel's Time, for the Sins of Manasseh; according to what God says by Jeremiah (Jer. xv. 4.) and agre•ble to what is said in that Confession, Lam. v. 9. Our Fathers have sin'd and are not, and we have borne their Iniquities.
In what is said here, there is a special Respect to the introducing the Gospel-Dispensation; as is greatly confirmed by comparing this Place with Jer. xxxi. 29, 30, 31. Under which Dispensation, the Righteousness of God's Dealings with Mankind would be more fully manifested, in the clear Revelation then to be made of the Method of the Judgment of God, by which the final State of wicked Men is determined; which is not according to the Behaviour of their particular Ancestors; but every one is dealt with according to the Sin of his own wicked Heart, or sinful Nature and Practice. The Affair of Derivation of the natural Corruption of Mankind in general, and of their Consent to, and Participation of, the primitive and common Apostasy, is not in the least intermeddled with, or touched, by any thing meant or aimed at in the true Scope and Design of this Place in Ezekiel.