THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN DEFENDED; EVIDENCES OF ITS TRUTH PRODUCED, AND ARGUMENTS TO THE CONTRARY ANSWERED. Containing, in particular, 1 A REPLY to the Objections and Arguings of Dr JoHN TAY- By the Late Reverend and Learned A NEW EDITION. They that be whole need not a Physician, but they that are fick. Mat. ix. 12. Propter Concupifcentiam, 'innatam Cordi humano, dicitur, -Ad Mores Natura recurrit -Dociles imitandis turpibus et pravis omnes fumus.- ξυν. EDINBURGH: PRINTED and SOLD by MURRAY and COCHRANE. 1798. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE BOOK AND ITS AUTHOR... Tdied before its publication. But, before his HE Reverend Author of the following piece. decease, the copy was finifhed and brought to the prefs, and a number of fheets paffed his own review. They that were acquainted with the Author, or know his juft character, and have any tafte for the ferious theme, will want nothing to be faid in recommendation of the enfuing tract, but only that Mr Edwards wrote it. Several valuable pieces on this fubject have lately been published, upon the fame fide of the question. But he had no notice of fo much as the very first of them, till he had wholly concluded what he had in view: nor has it been thought, any thing already printed fhould fuperfede this work of his; being defigned on a more extenfive plan; comprifing a variety of arguments, and answers to many objections, that fell not in the way of the other worthy writers; and the whole done with a care of familiar method and language, as well as clear reafoning, in general accommodated very much to common capacities. It must be a fenfible pleafure to every friend of truth, that fo mafterly a hand undertook a reply to Dr Taylor; notwithstanding the various anfwers already given him, both at home and abroad. As it has been thought unfit this pofthumous book fhould go unattended with a refpectful memorial of the Author, it is hoped, the reader will candidly accept the following minutes of his life and character. a 2 Mr |