Litchfield enquirer., 1832-04-19
FOR THE ENQUIRER. TOTAL DEPRAVITY, AND TAYLORISM. Ru thA ILy-sy.~ ocu Rrisf Hi1ssU


 many a small dose of dandeli and other drugs causing nausea and fatulence. As his case is sOme what desperate and urgent and his symptoms of rnth CT infammatory nature, have resolved to attend to his most ingenuously, and iuG the prom se made in my last, fast the press the Enqur CT and the indulgence of the Editor will permit. l feel no wish delay single week, the dandeli- ons'' and truth" 10 season the whole dish, are ready.
 would suggest to Yalenss the proprie,y Offoreso- ing his inveclive, out of courtesy and urbany, il from no other motive, till am through with the sub jec, of Tayorism; when he will be at liberty to make such remarks he may think proper, and will at- tend to them according to their nature and merits.
 very palpahle mistake ia Yalensis' last comnuni- cation will correct. He claims that misrepresent- resented Taylorism, had done it ignorau,ly: bo. did not say that had misreLresented it at alt. will leave that for the public decide after hearing me through the subject.
 now leave Yalensia to his spleen, as am far from wishing to excite any frensied feelings useless tenton. S, shall not suffer mysefto be !" "tabooed" nor bambooed" by any knight ofthe goose-qnll with mpuniy. And think the business of recritninaton may as we'll be suspended where it is; such batte- ries, opened and directed they have been, may spend their ammunition idly and vainIy.
 now commence the subject of Tayorsm, with previous views of total depravi,y; and believe they will be found 10 har,nonxe with the opinions Of the eminent divnes both of the 18th and 18th centuries.
 Total Depravity is fundamental doctrine of the ev erastng Gospel and is the necessary foundation of the hv inf nd of ,l,ot ofsovereign grace. am ignorant of the diversity of opinions thisimporant suect and the sophistry that is employed in their vndica,ion; nor am nsen- sibe that natural propensity of human nature which in religion always prefer error to trath and that the great majority of men willingly embrace heresy, how ever spacious its garb and look truth, however ma. ked its realities, with suspicion and coldness. Under all these disadvantages, and with these ob- staces conviction, Icomme nee the humble task be- fore me- and shall unfnchingy pursue it in plain and unadorned language, and without stopping to inquire who believes or dsbelieves the Bible doctrine of total depraviiy: and if the sentiments advanced come in contact with another sentiment which travels the land under tho of Fay yloIism, hope it will not rouse any more qulls than civiiy and moderation strictly claim.
 The Bible informs us, in Gen. i. 2, that. " God made man in his image, in the image Of God ere utud he him" The first inquiry then is, What s the image of God in which man was made1 Ifit is nat ural image, then it makes God visible and material being, which is contrary Scripture and truth. But ifthe image of God in which Adam was declared to be created is moral image, then il follows that Ad- am was created in the moral image of God, which is holiness; and consequently that he was beiore trans- gresson holy creature, entirely without sin pro- pensiy to sin: for propensity to sin destroys the idea of holiness, and implies actual sinluness. And will any one impiously assert that the Infinite God created unholy creature and pronounced him good? To whom does this impu,e the authorship of sin7 And if man had propensity 10 sn he could not have been in the image of his Maker. 4 holy creature canno; be liable to sim transgress from any moral imperecton in holiness, as he has in his nature no such defect
 Scripture and right reason thus teach US, that Ad- an the representative of the human race, was previ. ous to the apostacy. holy and siness creatures pure and innocent He was a moral, free and accountable agent and permitted to net in the view of motives, just he chose, and placed in Paradise hlble creaiure the trial of his obedience, and with mor. al ability capable obey his Maker. For # he had
 
 countabe, nor a voluntary moraLagent.
 The awful injunction before him was calculated to inspire Obedience- In the day thou easiest thereof thou ehalt surely die-not natural death for he liv- ed many hundred years after he felI-but moral spiritual death that s his nature should cease to be holy, he should lose the Divine imsgs and forfeit lor the favor of his Maker and all claim by his own acts obedience to all blessings both spiritual and temporal. He dsObeyed, and by iha, voluntary net,
 Brought sin into the world and all our woe.'
 Why Adam transgressed, being holy and with no natural propensity to sin, at first vew appears n yolve serious difficulty. But must consider that Adam was not first in iransgression. The woman was deceived and seduced by the Devil and being by Divine constitution the weaker vessel and left 10 the voluntary belief Of lie, through the strong medium of kindred attachment, gained the consent of her us- band parake with her in the ransgression he be- ing left to himself without the Divine support, snd temptation then powerfully operating his thea fa- Iible nalure, yielded against his better judgmen When he accepted the interdicied fruit, sin entered his heart, and he immediately aliened from ho- ness, and the Divine image lost. And the intro daciion of evil was by Divine aPpOinlment made to depend upon this act of Adam.
 It is absurd to assert that Adam had previous and natural propensity 10 disobey his Maker and hazard eternal death for the propensity itself implies unho- illness, as has been proved and Co assert that he compelled by fatality do he did, entirely destroys his free agency and accountability.