A Refutation of the Doctrine of Total Hereditary Depravity (Classic Reprint)

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What, but ignorance of human nature, has led to the admission, by many religionists, of the doctrine of total hereditary depravity? A doctrine, which, in order to its refutation, needs but one enlightened glance of the mind's eye, at the principles of which man is composed. This doctrine, although incompatible with every prin ciple of self-knowledge, has become extensively papa-c lat - is in fact a precious ingredient in many popular creeds - is the chief corner stone of Calvinistic and Ar minian sectarism. Men with ditliculty look within themselves; and being repeatedly told that their deprav ity is total and hereditary, take the truth of it for grant ed, on the mere ipse dizit of those who teach it, with out that examination, which is necessary to a detection d' it: fallacies.

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