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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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In P. 47. b. Whereas it is said concerning these new Converts,—"That such were added to the Church, as were the saved"— Mr. W. says, The like Appellation is given to the whole Church of Israel. And in this, and the foregoing Page, he insists, that these Converts were before in the Church of Israel, and were not now admitted, but only continued as some of God's People. But if these Things were so, they were the saved before their Conversion to Christianity, as much as after; and others that were in the Jewish Church, that were not yet converted to Christianity, were as much the saved as they. And then why is their being saved spoken of as what was now brought to pass, and as a Thi•• that distinguished the believing Jews from others?
In P. 47. b. Whereas it is said concerning these new Converts,—"That such were added to the Church, as were the saved"— Mr. W. says, The like Appellation is given to the whole Church of Israel. And in this, and the foregoing Page, he insists, that these Converts were before in the Church of Israel, and were not now admitted, but only continued as some of God's People. But if these Things were so, they were the saved before their Conversion to Christianity, as much as after; and others that were in the Jewish Church, that were not yet converted to Christianity, were as much the saved as they. And then why is their being saved spoken of as what was now brought to pass, and as a Thi•• that distinguish'd the believing Jews from others?
In the same Page c. Mr. W. says, We don't dispute but that the Apostles supposed and believed in Charity, so far as they had any. Thing to do to suppose or believe any Thing about it, that God had given these Persons saving Repentance, and an Heart-purifying Faith. And yet in P. 61. He speaks of the Apostles as supposing the contrary of many of those that had been admitted into the primitive Church; in that they speak of 'em, as such Temples of God as might be destroyed: Which (says Mr. W.) can't be true of sanctified Persons, unless they can fall from Grace.