George Whitefield on Creation Care
April 2, 2009
This is an excerpt from “Method of Grace”
There are many poor souls that think themselves fine reasoners, yet they pretend to say there is no such thing as original sin; they will charge God with injustice in imputing Adam”s sin to us; although we have got the mark of the beast and of the devil upon us, yet they tell us we are not born in sin. Let them look abroad into the world and see the disorders in it, and think, if they can, if this is the paradise in which God did put man. No! everything in the world is out of order. I have often thought, when I was abroad, that if there were no other argument to prove original sin, the rising of wolves and tigers against man, nay, the barking of a dog against us, is a proof of original sin. Tigers and lions durst not rise against us, if it were not for Adam”s first sin; for when the creatures rise up against us, it is as much as to say, You have sinned against God, and we take up our Master”s quarrel. If we look inwardly, we shall see enough of lusts, and man”s temper contrary to the temper of God.
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