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Misrepresentations corrected, and truth vindicated. In a reply to the Rev. Mr. Solomon Williams's…
Misrepresentations corrected, and truth vindicated. In a reply to the Rev. Mr. Solomon Williams's book, entitled, The true state of the question concerning the qualifications necessary to lawful communion in the Christian sacraments. / By Jonathan Edwards, M.A. Minister of the Gospel at Stockbridge. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]Misrepresentations corrected, and truth vindicated. In a reply to the Rev. Mr. Solomon Williams's book, intitled, The true state of the question concerning the qualifications necessary to lawful communion in the Christian sacraments. / By Jonathan Edwards, M.A. Minister of the Gospel at Stockbridge. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland, 1752
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According to Mr. W. the Profession of Godliness must be in Words not of a determinate Meaning, or without any Discrimination in the Meaning of the Words, obliging us to understand them of saving Religion. (P. 6. c. d.) They must make an open Declaration of their sincere Consent to the Terms of the Covenant, without any Discrimination, by which it can be determined, that the Consent signified by the Words is a gracious Consent. (P. 9. c.) And without any Marks of Difference, or any Distinction in the Words, whereby we can be enabled to judge when they mean a saving Faith, and when a different one. (P. 10. c. e. P. 50. e. & 53. c.) That nothing should be expressed in the Words of the Profession, but what some unsanctified Men may say, and speak true. (P. 47 e.) He supposes, that the primitive Christians in the Profession they made of Faith, did not speak only in that Sense, viz. so as to signify justifying Faith; and that the Persons admitted did not understand that their Profession was understood by those that admitted 'em, only in that Sense. (P. 58. c.)
ACcording to Mr. W. the Profession of Godliness must be in Words not of a determinate Meaning, or without any Discrimination in the Meaning of the Words, obliging us to understand them of saving Religion. (P. 6. c. d.) They must make an open Declaration of their sincere Consent to the Terms of the Covenant, without any Discrimination, by which it can be determined, that the Consent signified by the Words is a gracious Consent. (P. 9. c.) And without any Marks of Difference, or any Distinction in the Words, whereby we can be enabled to judge when they mean a saving Faith, and when a different one. (P. 10. c. e. P. 50. e. & 53. c.) That nothing should be express'd in the Words of the Profession, but what some unsanctified Men may say, and speak true. (P. 47 e.) He supposes, that the primitive Christians in the Profession they made of Faith, did not speak only in that Sense, viz. so as to signify justifying Faith; and that the Persons admitted did not understand that their Profession was understood by those that admitted 'em, only in that Sense. (P. 58. c.)
Agreeable to this Notion of making a Profession in Words of indiscriminate Meaning, and professing Godliness without Godliness, and yet speaking true, Mr. W. (in P. 44. d. e.) allows, that Men must be by Profession godly Persons, in order to come to the Sacrament; and yet in the next Sentence he denies, that Christian Grace it self is requisite in the Person who is to come to the Sacrament, or that the Dictate of his Conscience that he has it, is the Thing that gives him a Right to offer himself.