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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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'Tis also evident, that the Members of these primitive Churches and this Judgment one of another, and […] the Members of the visible Church of Christ in general.—In 1. Thes. iv. 13 &c. the Apostle exhorts the Christian Thessalonians, in Mourning for their deceased Friends who were visible Christians, not to sorrow as the hopeless Heathen were wont to do for their departed Friends; and that upon this Consideration, that they had Reason to expect to meet them again in glorious Circumstances at the Day of Judgment, never to part more. The Ground of Comfort concerning their dead Friends, which the Apostle here speaks of, is evidently something more than such an Hope as it may be supposed we ought to have of all that profess Christian Doctrines and are not Scandalous in Life, whom we must forbear to censure, because we don't know but they are true Saints.—The Members of the Church of Sardis, next to Laodicea, the worst of the seven Churches of Asia, yet had a Name that they lived; tho' Christ, who speaks to these seven Churches from Heaven in the Character of the Searcher of Hearts, (see Rev.ii. 23.) explicitly tells them, that they were dead; perhaps all in a dead Frame, and the most in a dead State.
'Tis also evident, that the Members of these primitive Churches and this Judgment one of another, and 〈…〉 the Members of the visible Church of Christ in general.—In 1. Thes. iv. 13 &c. the Apostle exhorts the Christian Thessalonians, in Mourning for their deceased Friends who were visible Christians, not to sorrow as the hopeless Heathen were wont to do for their departed Friends; and that upon this Consideration, that they had Reason to expect to meet them again in glorious Circumstances at the Day of Judgment, never to part more. The Ground of Comfort concerning their dead Friends, which the Apostle here speaks of, is evidently something more than such an Hope as it may be supposed we ought to have of all that profess Christian Doctrines and are not Scandalous in Life, whom we must forbear to censure, because we don't know but they are true Saints.—The Members of the Church of Sardis, next to Laodicea, the worst of the seven Churches of Asia, yet had a Name that they lived; tho' Christ, who speaks to these seven Churches from Heaven in the Character of the Searcher of Hearts, (see