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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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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. ⟨p. 40⟩And agreeable to this last Clause, Mr. Stoddard (of whose Opinion Mr. W. professes himself fully to be) expressly maintains, that a Man may and ought to come to the Lord's-Supper, tho' he knows himself to be in a natural Condition. (Doc. of Inst. Churches. P. 21. See also his Sermon on this Controversy. P. 13.) So that putting these Things together, it must be agreeable to Mr. W—ms's Scheme, that a Man has a Right to make a Profession of Godliness, without having Godliness, and without any Dictate of his Conscience that he has the Thing he professes, yea, tho' he knows he has it not! And all this is made out by the Doctrine of professing Godliness in Words that are ambiguous, and of two Meanings.
Agreable 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. ⟨p. 40⟩And agreable to this last Clause, Mr. Stoddard (of whose Opinion Mr. W. professes himself fully to be) expresly maintains, that a Man may and ought to come to the Lord's-Supper, tho' he knows himself to be in a natural Condition. (Doc. of Inst. Churches. P. 21. See also his Sermon on this Controversy. P. 13.) So that putting these Things together, it must be agreable to Mr. W—ms's Scheme, that a Man has a Right to make a Profession of Godliness, without having Godliness, and without any Dictate of his Conscience that he has the Thing he professes, yea, tho' he knows he has it not! And all this is made out by the Doctrine of professing Godliness in Words that are ambiguous, and of two Meanings.