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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 3
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We have no more Occasion for going to search among the Types, dark Revelations, and carnal Ordinances of the Old-Testament, to find out whether this Matter of Fact concerning the Constitution and Order of the New-Testament-Church be true, than we have Occasion for going there to find out whether any other Matter of Fact, we have an Account of in the New-Testament, be true; as particularly whether there were such Officers in the primitive Church as Bishops & Deacons, whether miraculous Gifts of the Spirit were common in the Apostles Days, whether the believing Gentiles were received into the primitive Christian Church, and the like.
ANSW. 3. I think, nothing can be alleged from the holy Scripture, that is sufficient to prove a Profession of Godliness to be not a Qualification requisite in order to a due and regular Participation of the Passover.
ANSW. 3. I think, nothing can be alledged from the holy Scripture, that is sufficient to prove a Profession of Godliness to be not a Qualification requisite in order to a due and regular Participation of the Passover.
Although' none of the requisite moral Qualifications for this Jewish Sacrament, either of one Kind or other, are near so clearly made known in the Old Testament, as the Qualifications for the Christian Sacraments are in the New; and although' the supposing a Visibility, either of moral Sincerity, or sanctifying Grace to be requisite, is (both respecting the one Case and the other) involved in some Obscurity and Difficulty; yet I would humbly offer what appears to me to be the Truth concerning that Matter, in the Things that follow.
Altho' none of the requisite moral Qualifications for this Jewish Sacrament, either of one Kind or other, are near so clearly made known in the Old Testament, as the Qualifications for the Christian Sacraments are in the New; and altho' the supposing a Visibility, either of moral Sincerity, or sanctifying Grace to be requisite, is (both respecting the one Case and the other) involved in some Obscurity and Difficulty; yet I would humbly offer what appears to me to be the Truth concerning that Matter, in the Things that follow.