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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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74, 75.) where speaking of their Doctrine of a particular Persuasion as of the Essence of saving Faith, he says, They are found inconsistent with themselves, and their Doctrine lighter than Vanity. And again (P. 82.) If ever (says Mr. W.) any Men were confuted from their own Concessions, these Divines are. And more to the like Purpose.—Which gives me a fair Occasion to express the like Wonder at him, as he does at me (P. 131. a.) but I forbear personal Reflections.
74, 75.) where speaking of their Doctrine of a particular Perswasion as of the Essence of saving Faith, he says, They are found inconsistent with themselves, and their Doctrine lighter than Vanity. And again (P. 82.) If ever (says Mr. W.) any Men were confuted from their own Concessions, these Divines are. And more to the like Purpose.—Which gives me a fair Occasion to express the like Wonder at him, as he does at me (P. 131. a.) but I forbear personal Reflections.
Mr. W. (in the same P. d.) has these Words; And to say, that all unsanctified Men do profess and seal their Consent to the Covenant of Grace in the Lord's Supper, when they KNOW at the same Time they do not consent to it, nor have their Heart at all in the Affair,—is something worse than begging the Question— that is, as I suppose, (the same that he charged me with before) Telling a manifest Untruth. By which he plainly suggests, that I have said thus. Whereas, I no where say, nor in any Respect signify that I suppose, all unsanctified Communicants do KNOW that they do not consent to the Covenant of Grace. I never made any Doubt, but that Multitudes of unsanctified Communicants are deceived, and think they do consent to it.
In P. 132. d. he says of me, The Author endeavours to show, that the admitting unsanctified Persons tends to the Ruin and Reproach of the Christian Church; and to the Ruin of the Persons admitted. But how widely different is this from what I express in the Place he refers to? (Inq. P. 121. c.) That which I say there, is, That by express Liberty given, to open the Door to as many as please, of those who have no Visibility of real Saintship, and make no Profession of it, nor Pretension to it, is a Method which tends to the Ruin and great Reproach of the Christian Church, and also to the Ruin of the Persons admitted. I freely grant, and show abundantly in my Book, it is never to be expected, that all unsanctified Men can be kept out, by the most exact Attendance on the Rules of Christ, by those that admit Members.