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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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For Instance, the Argument taken from the whole Nation of Israel's being called God's People, and every Thing that ⟨p. 137⟩Mr. W. alleges, pertaining to this Matter, is in like Manner against his own Scheme as against mine: And that, let the Question be what it will; whether it be about the Qualifications which make it lawful for the Church to admit, or about the Lawfulness of Persons coming to Sacraments; whether it be about the Profession they should make before Men, or the internal Qualification they must have in the Sight of God. And what Mr. W. says to the contrary, don't indeed at all deliver the Argument from this Embarrassment & Absurdity. After all he has said, in turning and twisting it, to save the Force of it, the Argument, if any Thing related to the Controversy, is plainly this, That because the whole Nation of Israel were God's visible People (which is the same as visible Saints) therefore the Scripture-Notion of visible Saintship is of larger Extent than mine; and the Scripture supposes those to be visible Saints, which my Scheme don't suppose to be so.
For Instance, the Argument taken from the whole Nation of Israel's being called God's People, and every Thing that ⟨p. 137⟩Mr. W. alledges, pertaining to this Matter, is in like Manner against his own Scheme as against mine: And that, let the Question be what it will; whether it be about the Qualifications which make it lawful for the Church to admit, or about the Lawfulness of Persons coming to Sacraments; whether it be about the Profession they should make before Men, or the internal Qualification they must have in the Sight of God. And what Mr. W. says to the contrary, don't indeed at all deliver the Argument from this Embarassment & Absurdity. After all he has said, in turning and twisting it, to save the Force of it, the Argument, if any Thing related to the Controversy, is plainly this, That because the whole Nation of Israel were God's visible People (which is the same as visible Saints) therefore the Scripture-Notion of visible Saintship is of larger Extent than mine; and the Scripture supposes those to be visible Saints, which my Scheme don't suppose to be so.