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Copies of the two letters cited by the Rev. Mr. Clap, Rector of the…
Copies of the two letters cited by the Rev. Mr. Clap, Rector of the college at New-Haven, in his late printed letter to a friend in Boston, concerning what he has reported, as from Mr. Edwards of Northampton, concerning the Rev. Mr. Whitefield. Communicated in a letter to a friend. : With some reflections on the affair those letters relate to, and Rector Clap's management therein. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Minister of the Gospel at Northampton, and writer of those letters.
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland and T. Green, 1745
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Whitefield express, or hint any Design he had of turning out the greater Part of the Ministers of New-England, or any Part of them, and introducing others into their Places, from Great Britain and Ireland, or any other Place, or any Thing like it; nor have I any Imagination that I ever heard Mr. Whitefield say any Thing of this Nature, any more than that I heard him say he had a Design of dethroning the great Turk, and introducing a new Sultan to sit upon his Throne: And I have equal Reason to be confident that I never represented, that Mr. Whitefield said the former, as I have, that I never represented that he said the latter. If I have ever reported any such Thing to you, who are at so great a Distance from me, and with whom I have had so little Conversation; it is exceeding likely that I have told others the same; But I challenge the whole World besides you, to say that they ever heard me say any such Thing. Therefore I desire you to do me and Mr. Whitefield the Justice, as publicly to correct your Mistake in this, which you have so publicly declared; which I perceive has been very much taken Notice of, and has been much the Subject of Talk. I can't but think, that when you come to consider of the Matter, you will soon be sensible that you have been greatly mistaken; and have by some Means or other, strangely confounded Things in your Mind; and that Justice and Integrity will constrain you speedily to declare ⟨p. 5⟩your Mistake to the World. In Expectation of this I remain, Sir, Your humble Servant, Jonathan Edwards. Northampton, Oct. 18. 1744.
Whitefield express, or hint any Design he had of turning out the greater Part of the Ministers of New-England, or any Part of them, and introducing others into their Places, from Great Britain and Ireland, or any other Place, or any Thing like it; nor have I any Imagination that I ever heard Mr. Whitefield say any Thing of this Nature, any more than that I heard him say he had a Design of dethroning the great Turk, and introducing a new Sultan to sit upon his Throne: And I have equal Reason to be confident that I never represented, that Mr. Whitefield said the former, as I have, that I never represented that he said the latter. If I have ever reported any such Thing to you, who are at so great a Distance from me, and with whom I have had so little Conversation; it is exceeding likely that I have told others the same; But I challenge the whole World besides you, to say that they ever heard me say any such Thing. Therefore I desire you to do me and Mr. Whitefield the Justice, as publickly to correct your Mistake in this, which you have so publickly declared; which I perceive has been very much taken Notice of, and has been much the Subject of Talk. I can't but think, that when you come to consider of the Matter, you will soon be sensible that you have been greatly mistaken; and have by some Means or other, strangely confounded Things in your Mind; and that Justice and Integrity will constrain you speedily to declare