Wifdom to labour for the Salvation of Men, looking daily for the Coming of our LORD, and by Faith and Prayer daily feeking for Directions and Affiftance to God the only Fountain of Light, who giveth Wisdom to the Wife, and Knowledge to them that have Underftanding, ---who knoweth what is in the Darkness, and the Light dwelleth with him. To him be everlafting Glory and Honour, thro' Jefus Christ our Lord. Amen.

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AVING carefully perufed the Second Edition of the Ruin and Recovery of Mankind, I find fome Reflections and Replies to fome of the * Arguments advanced in the Supplement to the Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin, worth Attention, as the Author again conceals his Name, I fhall again ufe the initial Letters R. R. to fignify both Book and Author.

R. R. Advertisement, p. xvii. Whenfoever I See this Doctrine of Original Sin rejected and renounced, there is fufficient Reafon, from many N 2 Obferva

*Note, There are in my Book feveral Arguments and Objections taken from Scripture, againft the Reprefentations of human Affairs, and the Arguments and Scheme advanced in The Ruin and Recovery of Mankind, which the Author of that Book takes not the leaft Notice of. Note further, 'tis the Second Edition of that Book to which I refer in this Treatife.

Obfervations, to expect the Glories of the Gospel will, in the fame Proportion, be depreciated, neglected and defpifed, &c.

ANSWER. It is well known the Doctrine of Original Sin includes this Article, That the Fall of Adam made all Mankind justly liable to the most grievous Torments in Soul and Body, without Intermiffion, in Hell-fire for ever, And in Proof of this, the Affembly of Divines refer us to 2 Thef. i. 9. Mark ix. 44, 46, 48. Luke xvi. 24. Gen. ii. 17. Lam. iii. 39. Rom. vi. 23. Mat. xxv. 41, 46. Jude ver. 7. This is the Doctrine our Fathers taught, and believed, as they thought, upon Scripture-Evidence. And this fingle Branch, in Weight and Moment, amounts almoft to the WHOLE of the Doctrine of Original Sin. For what Proportion is there between a corrupt Nature and Lofs of Communion with God in this World, attended with all the Miseries of this prefent Life, and the fame corrupt Nature, and Lofs of Communion with God, both in this and the other World, attended with the most grievous Torments in Soul and Body, without Intermiffion, in Hell-fire FOR EVER. Surely, might one fay, this is the Doctrine, [R. R. p. xvi.] a deep Senfe of which lays the best Foundation for our Submiffion to thofe bleffed Doctrines of Grace, which make up fo great a Part of the Gofpel. It is this Article which bumbles and

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