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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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For I bear you Record, that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own Eyes, and have given them unto me.—The Apostle James, in his Epistle, speaks of scandalous Persons among the twelve Tribes that were scattered abroad; some that were Men of unbridled Tongues; some that seem to have been a Kind of Antinomians in their Principles, and of a very bitter and violent Spirit, that reproached, condemned, and cursed their Brethren, and raised Wars and Fightings among professing Christians, and were also very unclean in their Practice, Adulterers and Adulteresses, Chap. iv. 4. And in the fifth Chap. of his Epistle, he seems to speak to the unbelieving Jews, who persecuted the Christians, ver.6.—And the Apostles are also often speaking of some that had once been admitted into the Church, crept in unawares, who had apostatized from Christianity, & finally proved notoriously wicked Men.—But otherwise, and as to such Members of the visible Church as continued in the same good Standing and Visibility of Christianity, wherein they were admitted, 'tis evident by the Epistles of the Apostles, they were all in the Eye of a Christian Judgment truly pious or gracious Persons. And here I desire the following Things may be particularly observed.
For I bear you Record, that if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own Eyes, and have given them unto me.—The Apostle James, in his Epistle, speaks of scandalous Persons among the twelve Tribes that were scattered abroad; some that were Men of unbridled Tongues; some that seem to have been a Kind of Antinomians in their Principles, and of a very bitter and violent Spirit, that reproached, condemned, and cursed their Brethren, and raised Wars and Fightings among professing Christians, and were also very unclean in their Practice, Adulterers and Adulteresses, Chap. iv. 4. And in the fifth Chap. of his Epistle, he seems to speak to the unbelieving Jews, who persecuted the Christians, ver.6.—And the Apostles are also often speaking of some that had once been admitted into the Church, crept in unawares, who had apostatized from Christanity, & finally proved notoriously wicked Men.—But otherwise, and as to such Members of the visible Church as continued in the same good Standing and Visibility of Christianity, wherein they were admitted, 'tis evident by the Epistles of the Apostles, they were all in the Eye of a Christian Judgment truly pious or gracious Persons. And here I desire the following Things may be particularly observed.