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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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which serve clearly to determine the present Question in the Negative, agreeable to the general Sense of Protestant Churches and Divines.
which serve clearly to determine the present Question in the Negative, agreable to the general Sense of Protestant Churches and Divines.
QUEST. III. Whether it be not the general Opinion, that persons admitted to the Lord's Table ought to PROFESS saving Faith and Repentance; meaning that Faith and Repentance, which are the Terms of the Covenant of Grace!
ANSW. I believe, after what has been already offered, we need be at no Loss to know the Mind of the Generality respecting the Subject of this Inquiry. Were there Occasion for it, I could easily produce a Cloud of Witnesses, to evidence that the general Opinion is on the Affirmative Side, in this Question. Repeated Searches have been made by diligent and impartial Inquirers, who tho' of varying Judgment and Practice in Church-Discipline, yet agree in their Reports: And from them I will give you the following Attestations.
ANSW. I believe, after what has been already offer'd, we need be at no Loss to know the Mind of the Generality respecting the Subject of this Inquiry. Were there Occasion for it, I could easily produce a Cloud of Witnesses, to evidence that the general Opinion is on the Affirmative Side, in this Question. Repeated Searches have been made by diligent and impartial Inquirers, who tho' of varying Judgment and Practice in Church-Discipline, yet agree in their Reports: And from them I will give you the following Attestations.