Misrepresentations corrected, and truth vindicated. In a reply to the Rev. Mr. Solomon Williams's…

This moral Sincerity, which Mr. W. insists on, is a most indeterminate uncertain Thing; a Phrase without any certain precise Meaning; and must for ever remain so. It being not determined, how much Men must be morally sincere; how much they must believe with a moral Sincerity; whether the deeply awakened and convinced Sinner must believe, that God is absolutely Sovereign with Respect to his Salvation, and that Christ is perfectly sufficient to save him in particular; and to what Degree of moral Assent & Consent, he must believe and embrace these Things, and comply with the Terms of the Covenant of Grace; whether he must be willing to obey all God's Commands, the most difficult, as well as the most easy, and this in all Circumstances, even the most difficult that can arise in Providence; or whether only in some Circumstances; and what, and how many. The Scripture gives us many infallible Rules, by which to distinguish between saving Grace, and common: But I know of no Rules given in the Bible, by which Men may certainly determine this precise Degree of moral Sincerity. So that if Grace is not the Thing which gives a Right to Sacraments in the Sight of God, we have no certain Rule in the Bible, commensurate to the Understanding of Mankind, by which to determine when we have a Right, and when not. — Now let the impartial Reader judge, which Scheme lays the greatest Foundation for Perplexity to Communicants, of tender Consciences, concerning their Qualifications for the Lord's Supper; and whether this Argument drawn from such a supposed Tendency to such Perplexity (if there be any Force in it) is not vastly more against Mr. W—ms's Scheme, than mine.

This moral Sincerity, which Mr. W. insists on, is a most indeterminate uncertain Thing; a Phrase without any certain precise Meaning; and must for ever remain so. It being not determin'd, how much Men must be morally sincere; how much they must believe with a moral Sincerity; whether the deeply awakened and convinced Sinner must believe, that God is absolutely Sovereign with Respect to his Salvation, and that Christ is perfectly sufficient to save him in particular; and to what Degree of moral Assent & Consent, he must believe and embrace these Things, and comply with the Terms of the Covenant of Grace; whether he must be willing to obey all God's Commands, the most difficult, as well as the most easy, and this in all Circumstances, even the most difficult that can arise in Providence; or whether only in some Circumstances; and what, and how many. The Scripture gives us many infallible Rules, by which to distinguish between saving Grace, and common: But I know of no Rules given in the Bible, by which Men may certainly determine this precise Degree of moral Sincerity. So that if Grace is not the Thing which gives a Right to Sacraments in the Sight of God, we have no certain Rule in the Bible, commensurate to the Understanding of Mankind, by which to determine when we have a Right, and when not. — Now let the impartial Reader judge, which Scheme lays the greatest Foundation for Perplexity to Communicants, of tender Consciences, concerning their Qualifications for the Lord's Supper; and whether this Argument drawn from such a supposed Tendency to such Perplexity (if there be any Force in it) is not vastly more against Mr. W—ms's Scheme, than mine.