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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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Clap, and never to any other Person before or since. For I now publicly Challenge the whole World besides Mr. Clap to declare, if they ever heard me report any such Thing.
Clap, and never to any other Person before or since. For I now publickly Challenge the whole World besides Mr. Clap to declare, if they ever heard me report any such Thing.
Mr. Clap says, he and I well agreed to condemn many Errors &c.—: That might be; for all the Land knows that I ever condemned many Errors. But there was little in our Conversation, in the Journey Mr. Clap speaks of, to draw me to such a Confidence in him, as to choose him above all the World, to reveal my greatest Secrets to: For he immediately fell upon me, as he knows, as soon as ever we began to ride the Road together, about some Passages in my Book, concerning the Revival of Religion, greatly blaming me, earnestly disputing […] suppose, for Hours together. After this we had […] Dispute about Connecticut Laws. And these Disputes were about the same Part of the Journey, in which he says I told him this about Mr. Whitefield.
Mr. Clap says, he and I well agreed to condemn many Errors &c.—: That might be; for all the Land knows that I ever condemned many Errors. But there was little in our Conversation, in the Journey Mr. Clap speaks of, to draw me to such a Confidence in him, as to choose him above all the World, to reveal my greatest Secrets to: For he immediately fell upon me, as he knows, as soon as ever we began to ride the Road together, about some Passages in my Book, concerning the Revival of Religion, greatly blaming me, earnestly disputing 〈…〉 suppose, for Hours together. After this we had 〈…〉 Dispute about Connecticut Laws. And these Disputes were about the same Part of the Journey, in which he says I told him this about Mr. Whitefield.