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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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OBJECT. VII. CHRIST Himself administered the Lord's Supper to Judas, whom he know at the same Time to be […]; which is a full Evidence, that Grace is not in itself a requisite qualification in order to coming to the Lord's Supper […] and if is […] requisite in itself, a Profession of it can't be requisite.
OBJECT. VII. CHRIST Himself administred the Lord's Supper to Judas, whom he know at the same Time to be 〈…〉; which is a full Evidence, that Grace is not in itself a requisite qualification in order to coming to the Lord's Supper 〈…〉 and if is 〈…〉 requisite in itself, a Profession of it can't be requisite.
ANSW. 1. 'Tis to me apparent, that Judas was not present at the Administration of the Lord's Supper. 'Tis true, he was present at the Passover, and dipped with Christ in the Paschal Dish. The three former Evangelists do differ in the Order of the Account they give of this dipping in the Dish. Luke gives an Account of it after his Account of the Lord's Supper, Luke xxii. 21. But Matthew and Mark both give an Account of it before. (Matt. xxvi. 23. Mark xiv. 20.) And the like might be shown in abundance of Instances of these three Evangelists differing one from another in the Order of their Narratives; one places those Things in his History after others, which another places first; these sacred Historians not undertaking to declare precisely the Date of every Incident, but regarding more the Truth of Facts, than the Order of Time. However, in the present Case, the Nature of the Thing speaks for it self, and shows, that Judas's dipping with Christ in the Dish, or his Hand being with Christ on the Table, or receiving a Sop dipped in the Dish, must be in that Order wherein Matthew and Mark place it in their History, viz. at the Passover, antecedent to the Lord's Supper: For there is no such Thing in the Lord's Supper as dipping of Sops and dipping together in the Dish; but there was such a Thing in the Passover, where all had their Hand together in the Dish, and dipped their Sops in the bitter Sauce. None of these three Evangelists give us any Account of the Time when Judas went out: But John, who is vastly more particular as to what passed that Night, and is every where more exact as to the Order of Time than the other Evangelists, gives us an Account, and is very precise as to the Time, viz. that Jesus when he gave him the Sop, at the same Time sent him away, bidding him do quickly what he intended to do; and accordingly when he had received the Sop, he went immediately out.