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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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So Mr. W. himself (Christ a King and Witness, P. 145. e.) plainly supposes, that before Conversion Men love the World more than God. For, speaking of the Nature of the Change wrought in Conversion, he says, Things are quite turned about, God and Christ are got into the Place the World ⟨p. 53⟩had before. Again (Ibid. P. 18. b.) he says, You must know that there is no Man who is not either a true Subject to Christ, or his Enemy. That Man who don't submit to Christ as his King and Lord, by bearing true Faith and Allegiance to him, is the Enemy of Christ & his Kingdom. Such are all they who will not depend on him, believe in him, give up themselves, and all to him. And again, (P. 106. e. 107. a.) Man since the Fall has a natural Unlikeness to God, and hates the Holiness and Purity of the Divine Nature. And in his Sermon on Isa. xlv.11. He says to his Hearers, If your Nature remain unrenewed and unsanctified,—you are the Enemies of God and Christ by wicked Works, and an impure Heart.—But yet now it seems, some of these may profess real Friendship to Christ, and loving him above the World, and speak true.
So Mr. W. himself (Christ a King and Witness, P. 145. e.) plainly supposes, that before Conversion Men love the World more than God. For, speaking of the Nature of the Change wrought in Conversion, he says, Things are quite turn'd about, God and Christ are got into the Place the World ⟨p. 53⟩had before. Again (Ibid. P. 18. b.) he says, You must know that there is no Man who is not either a true Subject to Christ, or his Enemy. That Man who don't submit to Christ as his King and Lord, by bearing true Faith and Allegiance to him, is the Enemy of Christ & his Kingdom. Such are all they who will not depend on him, believe in him, give up themselves, and all to him. And again, (P. 106. e. 107. a.) Man since the Fall has a natural Unlikeness to God, and hates the Holiness and Purity of the Divine Nature. And in his Sermon on Isa. xlv.11. He says to his Hearers, If your Nature remain unrenewed and unsanctified,—you are the Enemies of God and Christ by wicked Works, and an impure Heart.—But yet now it seems, some of these may profess real Friendship to Christ, and loving him above the World, and speak true.