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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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A Copy of the second Letter cited by Mr. Clap. Rev. Sir, THE Relation you give in your Letter of Octob. 12. of the Conversation that passed between us as we rode together through Leicester, the last May was Twelvemonth, is one of the most amazing Things to me that ever I met with in my Life. I don't remember our having any Conversation about Mr. Whitefield: But that might be, and I might forget it. But if I told such a Story about Mr. Whitefield, and what passed between him and me, with so many Particulars and Circumstances (which must have been altogether of mine own Invention, without the least Foundation in Truth) I don't believe I should have forgot it. I have sometimes said to others, (as I informed you, in my late Letter to you) that I supposed that Mr. Whitefield was formerly of the Opinion, that unconverted Ministers ought not to continue in the Ministry: And I do suppose he endeavoured to propagate this Opinion, and a Practice agreeable to it. But all that ever I have said about it, has been only as expressing my Opinion; and not any declared Design of Mr. Whitefield. You are express in it, that I said that Mr. Whitefield not only spake to me of bringing over Ministers from England, but ⟨p. 6⟩also from Scotland and Ireland: which is peculiarly wonderful to me: For I not only, never heard Mr. Whitefield say any Thing of bringing Ministers into America from those Countries last mentioned, and from neither of the Countries into NEW-ENGLAND: But I had never heard, at that Time when Mr. Whitefield was here, of his having any Followers in those Countries; and I suppose he had none: The wonderful Work that has been in Scotland has been all since, and Mr. Whitefield's Design of going to Scotland, was I suppose formed afterwards: Some Things that he told me of his Designs, seemed inconsistent with his having formed the Design thou. But the most amazing of all is, that Ireland should be mentioned as one of the Countries from whence Mr. Whitefield would supply New-England with Ministers. If I had ever heard any such Thing from Mr. Whitefield, doubtless I should have remembered it; for I should have looked upon it very strange; having never heard of any Thing like a Revival of Religion, of late in Ireland; or any Interest that Mr. Whitefield had there; or any Expectations he had from thence. I don't know that Mr.
A Copy of the second Letter cited by Mr. Clap. Rev. Sir, THE Relation you give in your Letter of Octob. 12. of the Conversation that passed between us as we rode together through Leicester, the last May was Twelvemonth, is one of the most amazing Things to me that ever I met with in my Life. I don't remember our having any Conversation about Mr. Whitefield: But that might be, and I might forget it. But if I told such a Story about Mr. Whitefield, and what pass'd between him and me, with so many Particulars and Circumstances (which must have been altogether of mine own Invention, without the least Foundation in Truth) I don't believe I should have forgot it. I have sometimes said to others, (as I informed you, in my late Letter to you) that I supposed that Mr. Whitefield was formerly of the Opinion, that unconverted Ministers ought not to continue in the Ministry: And I do suppose he endeavoured to propagate this Opinion, and a Practice agreable to it. But all that ever I have said about it, has been only as expressing my Opinion; and not any declared Design of Mr. Whitefield. You are express in it, that I said that Mr. Whitefield not only spake to me of bringing over Ministers from England, but