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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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Appendix: An APPENDIX. BEING A LETTER to the People of the first Church and Congregation in NORTH…
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If this Book of Mr. W. with all these Things, is made much of by you, and recommended to your Children, as of great Importance to defend the Principles of the Town, how far has your Zeal for that one Tenet, respecting natural Men's Right to the Lord's Supper, transported you, and made you forget your Value and Concern for the most precious and important Doctrines of Jesus Christ, taught you by Mr. Stoddard, which do most nearly concern the very Vitals of Religion!
I beseech you, Brethren, seasonably to consider how dark the Cloud is that hangs over you, and how melancholy the Prospect (especially with Regard to the rising Generation) in many Respects. I have long been intimately acquainted with your religious Circumstances, your Notions & Principles, your Advantages & Dangers; having had perhaps greater Opportunity for it than any other Person on Earth.— Before I left you, it was very evident, that Arminianism, and other loose Notions in Religion, and Mr. Taylor's in particular, began to get some Footing among you; and there were some Things special in your Circumstances, that threatened a great prevailing of such like Notions: which if they should by Degrees generally prevail, will doubtless by Degrees put an End to what used to be called saving Religion.
I beseech you, Brethren, seasonably to consider how dark the Cloud is that hangs over you, and how melancholy the Prospect (especially with Regard to the rising Generation) in many Respects. I have long been intimately acquainted with your religious Circumstances, your Notions & Principles, your Advantages & Dangers; having had perhaps greater Opportunity for it than any other Person on Earth.— Before I left you, it was very evident, that Arminianism, and other loose Notions in Religion, and Mr. Taylor's in particular, began to get some Footing among you; and there were some Things special in your Circumstances, that threaten'd a great prevailing of such like Notions: which if they should by Degrees generally prevail, will doubtless by Degrees put an End to what used to be called saving Religion.