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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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On the contrary, God took a special Fatherly Care of Him and his Children, in bringing them from Ur of the Chaldees, the Land of graven Images, to Haran. (Gen. xi.31.) And God is called the God of the Father of Abraham and Nahor, that is, the God of Terah. (Gen. xxxi.53.) And if it be said, that in Abraham began a new Dispensation of the Covenant; so that Abraham might properly on that Account be said to be taken into Covenant, as tho his Ancestors had not been in Covenant: I answer, The Alteration of the Dispensation was […] on Measure so great as that after Christ's Resurrection & Ascension; and yet Mr. W. […] not allow, that the Jewish Converts, received in (Act. ii.) on this ne• Dispensation, were any more than continued in Covenant, and in the Church. ⟨p. 85⟩So that, according to Mr. W—ms's Scheme, it must be Adam's Profession of Religion, that was the individual Profession which made all his Posterity, in the Line of the Church, even to the Apostles Days, visible Saints, or (as he himself explains visible Saintship) such as we have rational Ground to think are real Saints, possessed of Gospel-Holiness; and on that Account have a Right to Sacraments. For so He says it is with the Children of them that are in Covenant, and their Children, and their Children for ever, 'till cut off and cast out by God.
On the contrary, God took a special Fatherly Care of Him and his Children, in bringing them from Ur of the Chaldees, the Land of graven Images, to Haran. (Gen. xi.31.) And God is called the God of the Father of Abraham and Nahor, that is, the God of Terah. (Gen. xxxi.53.) And if it be said, that in Abraham began a new Dispensation of the Covenant; so that Abraham might properly on that Account be said to be taken into Covenant, as tho his Ancestors had not been in Covenant: I answer, The Alteration of the Dispensation was 〈…〉 on Measure so great as that after Christ's Resurrection & Ascension; and yet Mr. W. not allow, that the Jewish Converts, received in (