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An humble inquiry into the rules of the Word of God, concerning the qualifications…
An humble inquiry into the rules of the Word of God, concerning the qualifications requisite to a complete standing and full communion in the visible Christian church. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Northampton. ; With an appendix by Mr. Foxcroft. ; [Ten lines of quotations]An humble inquiry into the rules of the Word of God, concerning the qualifications requisite to a compleat standing and full communion in the visible Christian church. By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. Pastor of the First Church in Northampton. ; With an appendix by Mr. Foxcroft. ; [Ten lines of quotations]
Boston: : Printed & sold by S. Kneeland in Queenstreet, 1749
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An Inquiry into the Qualifications for full Communion in the visibl… › Part 2
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It is said in the Institution, Thou shalt cleave to the Lord and swear by his Name; or as the Words more literally are, Thou shalt unite into the Lord, and swear into his Name. So in Isai. lvi. 'Tis called a joining themselves to the Lord. But the union, cleaving, or joining of that Covenant is saving Faith, the grand Condition of the Covenant of Christ, by which we are IN CHRIST: This is what brings us into the Lord. For a Person explicitly or professedly to enter into the Union or Relation of the Covenant of Grace with Christ, is the same as professedly to do that which on our Part is the uniting Act, and that is the Act of Faith. To profess the Covenant of Grace is to profess the Covenant, not as a Spectator, but as one immediately concerned in the Affair, as a Party in the Covenant professed; and this is to profess that in the Covenant which belongs to us as a Party, or to profess our Part in the Covenant; and that is the Soul's believing Acceptance of the Saviour. Christ's Part is Salvation, our Part is a saving Faith in him; not a feigned, ⟨p. 30⟩but unfeigned Faith; not a common, but special and saving Faith; no other Faith than this is the Condition of the Covenant of Grace.
It is said in the Institution, Thou shalt cleave to the Lord and swear by his Name; or as the Words more literally are, Thou shalt unite into the Lord, and swear into his Name. So in Isai. lvi. 'Tis called a joining themselves to the Lord. But the union, cleaving, or joining of that Covenant is saving Faith, the grand Condition of the Covenant of Christ, by which we are IN CHRIST: This is what brings us into the Lord. For a Person explicitly or professedly to enter into the Union or Relation of the Covenant of Grace with Christ, is the same as professedly to do that which on our Part is the uniting Act, and that is the Act of Faith. To profess the Covenant of Grace is to profess the Covenant, not as a Spectator, but as one immediately concerned in the Affair, as a Party in the Covenant profess'd; and this is to profess that in the Covenant which belongs to us as a Party, or to profess our Part in the Covenant; and that is the Soul's believing Acceptance of the Saviour. Christ's Part is Salvation, our Part is a saving Faith in him; not a feigned, ⟨p. 30⟩