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Six Discourses - Couverture souple

Whitby, Daniel

 
9781146796293: Six Discourses

Synopsis

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Jbt Hi Jc I A HEY who have known my education may remember, that I was bred up feven years in the Univeriiry under men of the Cal-viniflical perfuafioii, and fa could hear no other Doctrine, or receive no other inductions from the men of ihofe times, and therefore had once firmlyentertained all their doctrines. Now that which firft moved me to fearch into the foundation of thefe doctrines, viz. The Imputation of A dams Sin to all its Pojlcrity, was the ftrange confequences of it-; this made me fearch the more exactly into that matter, and by reading Jofoua Placizus, with the anfwer to him, and others on that fubject, I foon found caufe to judge that there was no truth in it. SECTION I. After fame years ftudy I met with one who feemed to be a Deijl, and telling him that there were arguments fufficient to prove the truth of Gbrijlian Faith, and of the holy Scriptures he fccrnfully replied, Yes :A nd you laill prove your Doctrine of the Imputation of Original Sin from tie fame Scripture ;intimating that he thought that doctrine, if contained in it, fufficient to invalidate the truth and the authority of the Scripture. And by a little reflection I found the ftrength of his argument ran thus: That the truth oi holy Set ipture could no otherwise be proved to any man that doubted of it, but by reducing him to Tome abiurdity, or the denial ofiome avowed principle of reafon. Now this imputation of A dams fin tc his pofterity, fo as to render them obnoxious to Gods wrath, and to eternal damnation, only becaufe they were born of the race of A dam, feemed to him as contradictory to the common reafon of mankind, as any thing could be, and fo contained as jftrong an argument againft the truth of Scripture, if that doctrine was contained in it, as any could be offered for it. And upon this account I again fearched into the places ufually alledged to confirm that doctrine,
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