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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 2
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5. The Visibility, that visible Christians had of Saintship in the Apostles Days, was not of moral Sincerity, but gracious Sincerity, or saving Saintship: For they are spoken of as being visibly of the Number of those Saint & who shall judge the World and judge Angels. 1 Cor. vi. 1, 2, 3. Dare any of you, having a Matter against another, go to Law before the Unjust, and not before the Saints? Do ye not know, that the Saints shall judge the World? And if the World shall be judged BY YOU, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest Matters? Know ye not that WE shall judge Angels? These Things do manifestly imply, that if the Christian Corinthians were what they supposed they were, and what they professed to be, and what they were accepted to be, they were some of those Saints who at the Day of Judgment should judge Angels and Men.
5. The Visibility, that visible Christians had of Saintship in the Apostles Days, was not of moral Sincerity, but gracious Sincerity, or saving Saintship: For they are spoken of as being visibly of the Number of those Saint & who shall judge the World and judge Angels. 1 Cor. vi. 1, 2, 3. Dare any of you, having a Matter against another, go to Law before the Unjust, and not before the Saints? Do ye not know, that the Saints shall judge the World? And if the World shall be judged BY YOU, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest Matters? Know ye not that WE shall judge Angels? These Things do manifestly imply, that if the Christian Corinthians were what they supposed they were, and what they profess'd to be, and what they were accepted to be, they were some of those Saints who at the Day of Judgment should judge Angels and Men.