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The controversy over human deprivation which raged throughout the eighteenth century was no mere intramural squabble among theologians but an important phase of the evolution in Western man’s estimate of his nature and potentialities. By the time Jonathan Edwards entered the lists to champion the hated doctrine of original sin, he saw himself as not only defending a particular dogma but also...
Dr. Taylor, speaking of the sentence and punishment of the wicked (Matt. 25:41, 46) says, “It was manifestly for want of benevolence, love and compassion to their fellow creatures, that they were condemned” (pp. 158–9). And elsewhere, as was observed before, he says, that the law of God extends to the latent principles of sin, to forbid them, and to condemn to eternal destruction for them. And if so, it doubtless also extends to the inward principles of holiness, to require them, and in like manner
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