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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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maintains Another of his Corollaries was in these Words, A Minister or Church may judge a Man a Saint, and upon good Grounds, and not have Grounds to judge him regenerate. He proposed this Enquiry, Do not such as join themselves to the Church, covenant not only to be visible Saints, but Saints in Heart? The Answer was in the Negative; quite contrary to Mr. W.—Another was, Does not a visible Saint imply a Visibility of Grace, or an Appearance of it? The Answer was, "Not always." Quite contrary to Mr. W.—Another was, Is it not Hypocrisy in any Man, to make a Profession of Religion, and join himself to the Church, and not have Grace? The Answer was in the Negative; also quite contrary to Mr. W. —But these Sermons of Mr. A—y, were highly approved by the generality of the People of Northampton, as agreeable to their Minds.
maintains Another of his Corollaries was in these Words, A Minister or Church may judge a Man a Saint, and upon good Grounds, and not have Grounds to judge him regenerate. He proposed this Enquiry, Do not such as join themselves to the Church, covenant not only to be visible Saints, but Saints in Heart? The Answer was in the Negative; quite contrary to Mr. W.—Another was, Does not a visible Saint imply a Visibility of Grace, or an Appearance of it? The Answer was, "Not always." Quite contrary to Mr. W.—Another was, Is it not Hypocrisy in any Man, to make a Profession of Religion, and join himself to the Church, and not have Grace? The Answer was in the Negative; also quite contrary to Mr. W. —But these Sermons of Mr. A—y, were highly approved by the generality of the People of Northampton, as agreable to their Minds.
And the Controversy, as I have stated it in my Book, was the Controversy in which the Church and I appeared before the Council, who determined our Separation, when we each of us declared our Sentiments before them: The Point of Difference was entirely the Matter of Profession, and the Thing to be made visible; not the Degree of Evidence or Visibility. No Hint was given as tho' we both agreed, that true Piety or Gospel-Holiness was the Thing to be made visible, and that such only should be received as are truly godly Persons in the Eye of the Church's Judgment (as Mr. W. holds) and that we only differed about the proper Grounds of such a Judgment.