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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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By the Thing which have been observed, I think it abundantly evident, that the Saintship, Godliness and Holiness, of which, according to Scripture, professing Christians and visible Saints do make a Profession and have a Visibility, is not any Religion and Virtue that is the Result of common Grace, or moral Sincerity (as it is called) but saving Grace.—Yet there are many other clear Evidences of the same Thing, which may in some Measure appear in all the following Part of this Discourse— Wherefore,
II. I come now to another Reason, why I answer the Question at first proposed, in the Negative, viz. That 'tis a Duty which in an ordinary State of Things is required of all that are capable of it, to make an explicit open Profession of the true Religion, by owning God's Covenant; or, in other Words, professedly and verbally to unite themselves to God in his Covenant, by their own public Act.
II. I come now to another Reason, why I answer the Question at first proposed, in the Negative, viz. That 'tis a Duty which in an ordinary State of Things is required of all that are capable of it, to make an explicit open Profession of the true Religion, by owning God's Covenant; or, in other Words, professedly and verbally to unite themselves to God in his Covenant, by their own publick Act.
Here I would (First) prove this Point; and then (Secondly) draw the Consequence, and show how this demonstrates the Thing in Debate.
Here I would (First) prove this Point; and then (Secondly) draw the Consequence, and shew how this demonstrates the Thing in Debate.