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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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QUEST. 1. What is the general Opinion respecting that SELF-EXAMINATION required in 1 Cor. xi. 28. Whether Communicants are not here directed to examine themselves concerning the Truth of Grace, or their real Godliness?
QUEST. 1. What is the general Opinion respecting that SELF-EXAMINATION requir'd in 1 Cor. xi. 28. Whether Communicants are not here directed to examine themselves concerning the Truth of Grace, or their real Godliness?
ANSW. This Construction of the Text, as far as I have had Opportunity to inquire, appears to me very generally received: if I may judge by what many celebrated Expositors have said, on the Place, and by what many famous Divines have written in Treatises of Preparation for the Lord's Supper, besides what is contained in public Confessions, Catechisms, Directories, &c,—I think, Dr. REYNOLDS, in his Meditations on the Lord's Supper, has summarily expressed the common Judgment of Calvinists in these strong Lines of his. "The Sacrament is but a Seal of the Covenant; and the Covenant essentially includes Conditions; and the Condition on our Part is Faith. No Faith, no Covenant; no Covenant ⟨p. 2⟩no Seal; no Seal, no Sacrament.—The Matter the of this Trial (says he) must be that Vital Qualification, which predisposeth a Man for receiving of these holy Mysteries; and that is Faith."
ANSW. This Construction of the Text, as far as I have had Opportunity to inquire, appears to me very generally receiv'd: if I may judge by what many celebrated Expositors have said, on the Place, and by what many famous Divines have written in Treatises of Preparation for the Lord's Supper, besides what is contain'd in publick Confessions, Catechisms, Directories, &c,—I think, Dr. REYNOLDS, in his Meditations on the Lord's Supper, has summarily express'd the common Judgment of Calvinists in these strong Lines of his. "The Sacrament is but a Seal of the Covenant; and the Covenant essentially includes Conditions; and the Condition on our Part is Faith. No Faith, no Covenant; no Covenant