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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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That it may be the easier judged, how manifestly this is contrary to Truth, I shall here repeat some of those Epithets and Characters I before mentioned, which Mr. W. has Reference to. This is very manifest concerning most of them: but that I mayn't be tedious, I will now rehearse but a few Instances, viz. Being made free from Sin, and becoming the Servants of Righteousness: Having the Spirit of Adoption: Being the Children of God, Heirs of God, Joint-Heirs with Christ: Being Vessels of Mercy, prepared unto Glory: Being such as don't live to themselves, nor die to themselves; but live to the Lord, and die unto the Lord; and who living and dying are the Lord's: Being those that have all Things for theirs, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the World or Life, or Death, or Things present, or Things to come; because they are Christ's: Being begotten through the Gospel: Being such as shall judge the World: Being washed, sanctified, justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God: Being manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ, written not with Ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not in Tables of Stone, but in fleshly Tables of the Heart: Being such as behold as in a Glass the Glory of the Lord, and are changed into the same Image, from Glory to Glory: Being chosen in Christ before the Foundation of the World, that they should be holy and without Blame before him in Love; and predestinated unto the Adoption of Children: Being sealed by that holy Spirit of Promise: Being quickened, tho' once dead in Trespasses and Sins: Being made meet to be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light: Being dead, and having their Life hid with Christ in God; and being those that when Christ who is our Life shall appear, shall also appear with him in Glory; Having put off the old Man with his Deeds, and having put on ⟨p. 109⟩the new Man, which is renewed in Knowledge, after the Image of him that created him; Being begotten again to a living Hope — to an Inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven for 'em; who are kept by the Power of God through Faith unto Salvation; who love Christ, tho' they have not seen him; in whom, tho' now they see him not, yet believing, they rejoice with Joy unspeakable & full of Glory; having purified their Souls in obeying the Truth through' the Spirit;
That it may be the easier judged, how manifestly this is contrary to Truth, I shall here repeat some of those Epithets and Characters I before mention'd, which Mr. W. has Reference to. This is very manifest concerning most of them: but that I mayn't be tedious, I will now rehearse but a few Instances, viz. Being made free from Sin, and becoming the Servants of Righteousness: Having the Spirit of Adoption: Being the Children of God, Heirs of God, Joint-Heirs with Christ: Being Vessels of Mercy, prepared unto Glory: Being such as don't live to themselves, nor die to themselves; but live to the Lord, and die unto the Lord; and who living and dying are the Lord's: Being those that have all Things for theirs, whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the World or Life, or Death, or Things present, or Things to come; because they are Christ's: Being begotten through the Gospel: Being such as shall judge the World: Being washed, sanctified, justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God: Being manifestly declared to be the Epistle of Christ, written not with Ink, but by the Spirit of the living God; not in Tables of Stone, but in fleshly Tables of the Heart: Being such as behold as in a Glass the Glory of the Lord, and are changed into the same Image, from Glory to Glory: Being chosen in Christ before the Foundation of the World, that they should be holy and without Blame before him in Love; and predestinated unto the Adoption of Children: Being sealed by that holy Spirit of Promise: Being quicken'd, tho' once dead in Trespasses and Sins: Being made meet to be Partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light: Being dead, and having their Life hid with Christ in God; and being those that when Christ who is our Life shall appear, shall also appear with him in Glory; Having put off the old Man with his Deeds, and having put on