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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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Let it therefore now be considered, whether it won't follow from these Premises, That for Men to live in Enmity against God and Christ, and in wilful Unbelief and Rejection of Christ (as the Scriptures teach, and as Mr. S. & Mr. W. too assert, is the Case with all unsanctified Men under the Gospel) wholly disqualifies Men for Christian Sacraments. For 'tis very manifest, by Scripture and Reason, that to live in these Things, is to live in some of the most heinous Kinds of Wickedness; as is allowed by Calvinistic Divines in general, and by Mr. S. in particular, who says (Safety of Ap. P. 224. d.) You cannot anger God more by any Thing, than by continuing in the Neglect of Christ. This is the great Controversy God has with Sinners; not that they have been guilty of these and those particular Transgressions, ⟨p. 74⟩but that they abide in the Rejection of the Gospel. Again, he says, (Ibid. P 249. e.) The great Sin, that God is angry with you for, is your Unbelief. Despising the Gospel is the great provoking Sin.
Let it therefore now be considered, whether it won't follow from these Premises, That for Men to live in Enmity against God and Christ, and in wilful Unbelief and Rejection of Christ (as the Scriptures teach, and as Mr. S. & Mr. W. too assert, is the Case with all unsanctified Men under the Gospel) wholly disqualifies Men for Christian Sacraments. For 'tis very manifest, by Scripture and Reason, that to live in these Things, is to live in some of the most heinous Kinds of Wickedness; as is allowed by Calvinistick Divines in general, and by Mr. S. in particular, who says (Safety of Ap. P. 224. d.) You cannot anger God more by any Thing, than by continuing in the Neglect of Christ. This is the great Controversy God has with Sinners; not that they have been guilty of these and those particular Transgressions, ⟨p. 74⟩but that they abide in the Rejection of the Gospel. Again, he says, (Ibid. P 249. e.) The great Sin, that God is angry with you for, is your Unbelief. Despising the Gospel is the great provoking Sin.