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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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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.
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 determin'd 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 differ'd about the proper Grounds of such a Judgment.
And therefore 'tis apparent, it was this Controversy, and it's Consequences, that were the Ground of my Separation from my People; and not any Thing like the Controversy which Mr. W. professes to manage in his Answer. This Controversy, when it came out in Mr. W—ms's Book, was new in Northampton, and entirely alien from all the Dispute which had filled that Part of the Country, and a great Part of New-England, with Noise and Uproar, for about two Years and an half. The Thing which Mr. W. over and over allows ⟨p. 6⟩to be true, was the very same, both in Effect and in Terms, which the People had been most vehemently fighting against, from Week to Week, and from Month to Month, during all this Time: And therefore the Design of my Writing led and obliged me to maintain that Position or Doctrine of mine, which was the Occasion of this Debate.