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The Doctrine of Original Sin DefendedAuthor: Jonathan EdwardsPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: |an, to object and say, that if God really meant any such thing, he ought in reason and truth to have declared it plainly and fully ; and not to have been so sil... more »ent about a matter of .such vast importance to all mankind, for four thousand years together. .CHAPTER III. Qbservatiens on various other Places of Scripture, principally of the New Testament, f roving the jPeftrinc O/"qriginal Sin. SECTION I. filservations on John iii. 6, in connexion vAth -some other passages in the New Testament. THOSE words of Christ, giving a reason to Nicode- mus, why we must be born again, John iii. 6, " That which is born of the flesh, is flesh ; and that which is born of the spirit, is spirit; have not, without good reason, been produced by divines, as a proof of the doctrine of original sin ; supposing, that by fiesh here is meant the human nature in a debased and corrufit state. Yet Dr. Taylor, p. 144, thus explains these words, That "which is born of the flesh, is fleah : " That which is born by natural descent and propagation, is a man, consisting of body and soul, or the mere constitution and powers of a man in their natural state." But the constant use of these terms, flesh and sfiirit, in other parts of the New Testament when thus set in opposition one to another, nd the latter said to be produced by the Spirit of God, s) here, and when speaking of the same thing, which Christ is. jhere speaking of to Nicodemus, viz. the requisite qualifica- tions to salvation, will fully vindicate the sense of our divines. Thus in the 7th and 8th chapters of Romans, where theso lemr;./?--.-.7z and spirit (aj% and Vhv/m) are abundantly repeated, and set in opposiiion, as here. So, chap. vii. 14. The law is spiritual (whctix©.) but I am carnal ($(©.) sold under sin. He cannot only mean, " I... « less
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ISBN-13: 9781458871497ISBN-10: 1458871495Publication Date: 8/1/2009 Pages: 222Rating: ? 0 stars, based on 0 rating |
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