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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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Here if it be objected, th•• the Eunuch's Answer and the Profession he hereupon made (wherein he speaks nothing of his Heart, but barely says) I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, shows that he understood no more by the Enquiry, than whether he gave his Assent to that Doctrine: To this […] answer; we must take this Confession of the Eunuch's together with Philip's Words, which they were a Reply to, and expound the one by the other. Nor is there any Reason but to understand it in the same Sense in which we find the Words of the like Confession elsewhere in the New-Testament, and as the Words of such a Confession were wont to be used in those Days; as particularly the Words of Peter's Confession, […] xvi. 16. And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art Christ the Son of the living God: Which was a Profession of saving Faith, as appears by what Christ says upon it. And we read, I Cor. xii. 3. No Man can say, that Jesus is the Lord but by the Holy Ghost. Not but that a Man might make a Profession in these Words without the Holy Ghost, but he could not do it heartily, or WITH ALL HIS HEART. So […] Job. iv. 15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God. i. e. Whoever makes this Christian Confession (this Profession which all Christians were wont to make) cordially, or with his whole Heart, God dwells in him, &c. But it was thus that the Eunuch was put upon making this Confession.
Here if it be objected, th•• the Eunuch's Answer and the Profession he hereupon made (wherein he speaks nothing of his Heart, but barely says) I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, shows that he understood no more by the Enquiry, than whether he gave his Assent to that Doctrine: To this 〈…〉 answer; we must take this Confession of the Eunuch's together with Philip's Words, which they were a Reply to, and expound the one by the other. Nor is there any Reason but to understand it in the same Sense in which we find the Words of the like Confession elsewhere in the New-Testament, and as the Words of such a Confession were wont to be used in those Days; as particularly the Words of Peter's Confession, 〈…〉 xvi. 16. And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art Christ the Son of the living God: Which was a Profession of saving Faith, as appears by what Christ says upon it. And we read,