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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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We have an Account from Time to Time, concerning these, of their first being awakened by the Preaching of the Apostles and other Ministers, and earnestly enquiring what they should do to be saved; and of their being directed to repent and believe on the Lord Jesus, as the Way to have their Sins blotted out, and to be saved; and then, upon their professing that they did believe, of their being baptized and admitted into the Christian Church. Now can any reasonably imagine, that these primitive Converts, when they made that Profession in order to their Admission, had any such Distinction in View as that which some now make, of two Sorts of real Christianity, two Sorts of sincere Faith and Repentance, one with a moral and another with a gracious Sincerity? Or that the Apostles, who discipled 'em and baptized 'em, had instructed 'em in any such Distinction? The History informs us of their teaching them but one Faith and Repentance; Believing in Christ that they might be saved, and Repentance for the Remission of Sins: and it would be unreasonable, to suppose, that a Thought of any lower or other Kind entered into the Heads of these Converts, when immediately upon their receiving such Instructions they professed Faith and Repentance; or that those who admitted them understood 'em as meaning any lower or other Kind in what they professed.
We have an Account from Time to Time, concerning these, of their first being awaken'd by the Preaching of the Apostles and other Ministers, and earnestly enquiring what they should do to be saved; and of their being directed to repent and believe on the Lord Jesus, as the Way to have their Sins blotted out, and to be saved; and then, upon their professing that they did believe, of their being baptized and admitted into the Christian Church. Now can any reasonably imagine, that these primitive Converts, when they made that Profession in order to their Admission, had any such Distinction in View as that which some now make, of two Sorts of real Christianity, two Sorts of sincere Faith and Repentance, one with a moral and another with a gracious Sincerity? Or that the Apostles, who discipled 'em and baptized 'em, had instructed 'em in any such Distinction? The History informs us of their teaching them but one Faith and Repentance; Believing in Christ that they might be saved, and Repentance for the Remission of Sins: and it would be unreasonable, to suppose, that a Thought of any lower or other Kind enter'd into the Heads of these Converts, when immediately upon their receiving such Instructions they professed Faith and Repentance; or that those who admitted them understood 'em as meaning any lower or other Kind in what they professed.