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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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Again in P. 3. b. (the same Page where he speaks of Infants as Members having a complete Standing in the Church) he maintains, that Nothing else is requisite in Order to Communion and Privileges of Members in complete Standing, but only that they should be capable hereof, and should desire the same, and should not be under Censure, or scandalously Ignorant or Immoral. (See also P. 100. c, d. to the same Purpose.) Mr. W. says this in Opposition to my insisting on something further, viz. making a Profession of Godliness. And yet he himself insists on something further, as much as I; which has been observed before. For he abundantly insists on a personal, explicit Profession and open Declaration of believing that the Gospel is indeed the Revelation of God, and of a hearty Consent to the Terms of the Covenant of Grace, &c. And speaks of the whole Controversy as turning upon that single Point, of the Degree of Evidence to be given, and the Kind of Profession to be made, Whether in Words of indiscriminate Meaning? (See P. 5. b, c. P. 6. c, d.) And consequently not, Whether they must make any Profession at all, having been completely admitted before, in the Profession of their Ancestors?
Again in P. 3. b. (the same Page where he speaks of Infants as Members having a compleat Standing in the Church) he maintains, that Nothing else is requisite in Order to Communion and Privileges of Members in compleat Standing, but only that they should be capable hereof, and should desire the same, and should not be under Censure, or scandalously Ignorant or Immoral. (See also P. 100. c, d. to the same Purpose.) Mr. W. says this in Opposition to my insisting on something further, viz. making a Profession of Godliness. And yet he himself insists on something further, as much as I; which has been observed before. For he abundantly insists on a personal, explicit Profession and open Declaration of believing that the Gospel is indeed the Revelation of God, and of a hearty Consent to the Terms of the Covenant of Grace, &c. And speaks of the whole Controversy as turning upon that single Point, of the Degree of Evidence to be given, and the Kind of Profession to be made, Whether in Words of indiscriminate Meaning? (See P. 5. b, c. P. 6. c, d.) And consequently not, Whether they must make any Profession at all, having been compleatly admitted before, in the Profession of their Ancestors?