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A farewell-sermon preached at the first precinct in Northampton, after the people's public rejection…A farewel-sermon preached at the first precinct in Northampton, after the people's publick rejection…
A farewell-sermon preached at the first precinct in Northampton, after the people's public rejection of their minister, and renouncing their relation to him as pastor of the church there, on June 22, 1750. : Occasioned by difference of sentiments, concerning the requisite qualifications of members of the church, in complete standing. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. ; [Twelve lines of Scripture texts]A farewel-sermon preached at the first precinct in Northampton, after the people's publick rejection of their minister, and renouncing their relation to him as pastor of the church there, on June 22, 1750. : Occasion'd by difference of sentiments, concerning the requisite qualifications of members of the church, in compleat standing. / By Jonathan Edwards, A.M. ; [Twelve lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland over agianst the prison, 1751
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Long before the sitting of the Council, my People had sent to the Rev. Mr. CLARK of Salem-Village, desiring him to write in Opposition to my Principles. Which gave me Occasion to write to Mr. CLARK, that he might have true Information what my Principles were. And in the Time of the sitting of the Council, I did, for their Information, make a public Declaration of my Principles before them and the Church, in the Meeting-House, of the same Import with that in my Letter to Mr. CLARK, and very much in the same Words. And then, afterwards, sent in to the Council in Writing, an Extract of that Letter, containing the Information I had given Mr. CLARK, in the very Words of my Letter to him, that the Council might read and consider it at their Leisure, and have a more certain and satisfactory Knowledge what my Principles were. The Extract which I sent in to them, was in the following Words.
Long before the sitting of the Council, my People had sent to the Rev. Mr. CLARK of Salem-Village, desiring him to write in Opposition to my Principles. Which gave me Occasion to write to Mr. CLARK, that he might have true Information what my Principles were. And in the Time of the sitting of the Council, I did, for their Information, make a publick Declaration of my Principles before them and the Church, in the Meeting-House, of the same Import with that in my Letter to Mr. CLARK, and very much in the same Words. And then, afterwards, sent in to the Council in Writing, an Extract of that Letter, containing the Information I had given Mr. CLARK, in the very Words of my Letter to him, that the Council might read and consider it at their Leisure, and have a more certain and satisfactory Knowledge what my Principles were. The Extract which I sent in to them, was in the following Words.
I am often, and I don't know but pretty generally, in the Country, represented as of a new and odd Opinion with Respect to the Terms of Christian Communion, and as being for introducing a peculiar Way of my own. Whereas, I don't perceive that I differ at all from the Scheme of Dr. WATTS, in his Book entitled, The rational Foundation of a Christian Church, and the Terms of Christian Communion; ⟨p. iii⟩