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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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DODDRIDGE in the same Sentiments, by what he says in his Family-Expositor. Thus, on the Case of Ananias & Sapphire, he has this Note, The Church is never happier, than when the Sons of Falsehood are deterred from intruding into it: If it's Members are less numerous, 'tis a sufficient Balance, that it is more pure. And on Simon's Case, he pronounces it to be in vain for Men to profess themselves Christians, in vain to submit to Baptism, &c. if their Heart be not right with God. And such Persons being admitted ⟨p. 7⟩to distinguishing Ordinances, he calls an EVIL, in the present State of Things unavoidable: wishing for the happy Medium, between prostituting divine Ordinances by a foolish Credulity, and defrauding the Children of […] Household of their Bread, by a rigorous Severity and mistaken Caution• […] every where represents the Lord's Supper as the Sacrament of […] a reviving and nourishing Ordinance; but never that I can find […] regenerating or converting one. Upon the Case of Judas, the Dr. observed that if he had truly stated the Order of the Story, then Judas certainly went out before the Eucharist was instituted: And indeed one […] reasonably suppose, Christ would have commanded him to […] of this Cup as the Blood shed for him for the Remission of Sins, when he had just before been declaring, in Effect, that his Sins should never be forgiven.—By which Observation, I think, Dr. DODDRIDGE has quite demolished one of the most plausible Pleas in Favour of the secret and conscious Hypocrites Claim to the Lord's Supper.
DODDRIDGE in the same Sentiments, by what he says in his Family-Expositor. Thus, on the Case of Ananias & Sapphire, he has this Note, The Church is never happier, than when the Sons of Falshood are deterred from intruding into it: If it's Members are less numerous, 'tis a sufficient Balance, that it is more pure. And on Simon's Case, he pronounces it to be in vain for Men to profess themselves Christians, in vain to submit to Baptism, &c. if their Heart be not right with God. And such Persons being admitted ⟨p. 7⟩to distinguishing Ordinances, he calls an EVIL, in the present State of Things unavoidable: wishing for the happy Medium, between prostituting divine Ordinances by a foolish Credulity, and defrauding the Children of 〈…〉 Houshold of their Bread, by a rigorous Severity and mistaken Caution every where represents the Lord's Supper as the Sacrament of a reviving and nourishing Ordinance; but never that I can find regenerating or converting one. Upon the Case of Judas, the Dr. observed that if he had truly stated the Order of the Story, then Judas certainly went out before the Eucharist was instituted: And indeed one reasonably suppose, Christ would have commanded him to of this Cup as the Blood shed for him for the Remission of Sins, when he had just before been declaring, in Effect, that his Sins should never be forgiven.—By which Observation, I think, Dr. DODDRIDGE has quite demolish'd one of the most plausible Pleas in Favour of the secret and conscious Hypocrites Claim to the Lord's Supper.