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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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I think, all that hold, the visible Christian Church ought to consist of such as make a visible and credible Profession of Faith and Holiness, and appear to rational Charity real Members of the Church invisible (which is the common Language of Protestants) are to be understood as in Principle exploding the Conceit of a conscious Unbeliever's Right before God ⟨p. 12⟩to special Church. Ordinances, and as denying the apparent Unbeliever's Right before the Church to Admission, whether to one Sacrament or the other. I observe, Eadem est Ratio utriusque Sacramenti, is a Maxim (in it's general Notion) espoused by the several contending Parties in this Controversy about a Right to Sacraments.
I think, all that hold, the visible Christian Church ought to consist of such as make a vissible and credible Profession of Faith and Holiness, and appear to rational Charity real Members of the Church invisible (which is the common Language of Protestants) are to be understood as in Principle exploding the Conceit of a conscious Unbeliever's Right before God ⟨p. 12⟩to special Church. Ordinances, and as denying the apparent Unbeliever's Right before the Church to Admission, whether to one Sacrament or the other. I observe, Eadem est Ratio utriusque Sacramenti, is a Maxim (in it's general Notion) espoused by the several contending Parties in this Controversy about a Right to Sacraments.
That a credible Profession of saving Faith and Repentance is necessary to Baptism, in the Case of the Adult, I can show, by the Authority of CLAUDE's approved Defence of the Reformation, to be the general Opinion of French Protestants; and by the PALATINE Catechism, by the LEIDEN Professors Synopsis, &c. to be the prevailing Judgment of the Reformed in Germany, Holland, and foreign Parts.
That a credible Profession of saving Faith and Repentance is necessary to Baptism, in the Case of the Adult, I can shew, by the Authority of CLAUDE's approv'd Defence of the Reformation, to be the general Opinion of French Protestants; and by the PALATINE Catechism, by the LEYDEN Professors Synopsis, &c. to be the prevailing Judgment of the Reformed in Germany, Holland, and foreign Parts.