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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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By the Way I would observe, that Christ's not excluding Judas from the Passover, under these Circumstances, knowing him to be thus unqualified. without so much as moral Sincerity, &c. is another Thing that effectually enervates all the Strength of the Objection against me, from the Passover: For Judas did not only in common with others fall under God's strict Command, in the Law of Moses, to keep this Feast, without any Exception of his Case there to be found; but Christ himself with his own ⟨p. 106⟩Hand gave him the Sop, a Part of the Paschal Feast; even although' at the same Instant he had in View the Man's secret Wickedness and Hypocrisy, the traitorous Design which was then in his Heart, and the horrid Conspiracy with the chief Priests, which he had already entered into, and was now in Prosecution of: this was then in Christ's Mind, and he intimated it to him, at the same Moment when he gave him the Sop, saying, What thou dost, do quickly. This demonstrates, that the Objection from the Passover is no stronger Argument against my Scheme, than the Scheme of those whom I oppose; because 'tis no stronger against the Necessity of sanctifying Grace, the Qualification for Christian Sacraments, which I insist upon, than it is against the Necessity of moral Seriousness or Sincerity, the Qualification which they insist upon.
By the Way I would observe, that Christ's not excluding Judas from the Passover, under these Circumstances, knowing him to be thus unqualified. without so much as moral Sincerity, &c. is another Thing that effectually enervates all the Strength of the Objection against me, from the Passover: For Judas did not only in common with others fall under God's strict Command, in the Law of Moses, to keep this Feast, without any Exception of his Case there to be found; but Christ himself with his own ⟨p. 106⟩Hand gave him the Sop, a Part of the Paschal Feast; even altho' at the same Instant he had in View the Man's secret Wickedness and Hypocrisy, the traiterous Design which was then in his Heart, and the horrid Conspiracy with the chief Priests, which he had already enter'd into, and was now in Prosecution of: this was then in Christ's Mind, and he intimated it to him, at the same Moment when he gave him the Sop, saying, What thou dost, do quickly. This demonstrates, that the Objection from the Passover is no stronger Argument against my Scheme, than the Scheme of those whom I oppose; because 'tis no stronger against the Necessity of sanctifying Grace, the Qualification for Christian Sacraments, which I insist upon, than it is against the Necessity of moral Seriousness or Sincerity, the Qualification which they insist upon.