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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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And (if his own Scruples did not hinder his coming to the Lord's Table) I should think the Minister or Church had no Right to debar such a Professor, tho' he should say he did not think himself converted. For I call that a Profession of Godliness, which is a Profession of the great Things wherein Godliness consists and not a Profession of his own Opinion of his good Estate.— Northampton, May 7. 1750.
And (if his own Scruples did not hinder his coming to the Lord's Table) I should think the Minister or Church had no Right to debar such a Professour, tho' he should say he did not think himself converted. For I call that a Profession of Godliness, which is a Profession of the great Things wherein Godliness consists and not a Profession of his own Opinion of his good Estate.— Northampton, May 7. 1750.
Thus far my Letter to Mr. CLARK.
The Council having heard that I had made certain Draughts of the Covenant, or Forms of a public Profession of Religion, which I stood ready to accept of from the Candidates for Church-Communion, they, for their further Information, sent for them. Accordingly I sent them four distinct Draughts or Forms, which I had drawn up about a Twelve-Month before, as what I stood ready to accept of (any one of them) rather than contend, and break with my People.
The Council having heard that I had made certain Draughts of the Covenant, or Forms of a publick Profession of Religion, which I stood ready to accept of from the Candidates for Church-Communion, they, for their further Information, sent for them. Accordingly I sent them four distinct Draughts or Forms, which I had drawn up about a Twelve-Month before, as what I stood ready to accept of (any one of them) rather than contend, and break with my People.