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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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Again, Mr. W. in answering my Argument concerning brotherly Love, (P. 70. e. 71. a.) represents me as arguing, That in the Exercise of Christian Love described in the Gospel, there is such an Union of Hearts, as there cannot be of a Saint to an unsanctified Man. Which is a Thing I never said, and is quite contrary to the Sentiments which I have abundantly declared. I indeed speak of that brotherly ⟨p. 94⟩Love, as what can't be of a Saint to One that is not apprehended and judged to be sanctified. But that Notion of a peculiar Love, which can't be to an unsanctified Man, or without the Reality of Holiness in the Person beloved, is what I ever abhorred, and have born a most loud and open and large Testimony against, again and again, from the Press, *and did so in the Preface to that very Book which Mr. W. writes against.
Again, Mr. W. in answering my Argument concerning brotherly Love, (P. 70. e. 71. a.) represents me as arguing, That in the Exercise of Christian Love described in the Gospel, there is such an Union of Hearts, as there cannot be of a Saint to an unsanctified Man. Which is a Thing I never said, and is quite contrary to the Sentiments which I have abundantly declared. I indeed speak of that brotherly ⟨p. 94⟩Love, as what can't be of a Saint to One that is not apprehended and judged to be sanctified. But that Notion of a peculiar Love, which can't be to an unsanctified Man, or without the Reality of Holiness in the Person beloved, is what I ever abhor'd, and have born a most loud and open and large Testimony against, again and again, from the Press, *and did so in the Preface to that very Book which Mr. W. writes against.
- *Marks of a Work of the true Spirit. P. 101, 102, 103, 104.— Thoughts on the Revival of Religion, from P. 292, to 303.— Nature of Religious Affections, P. 85—87. Preface to Inquiry into Qualifications for Communion. P 5