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

I know, the Word Experience is used by many in a Sort of peculiar Sense, for the particular Order and Method of ⟨p. 18⟩what passes within the Mind and Heart in Conversion. And in this Sense, Mr. W. knows, I disclaim the Notion of making Experiences a Term of Communion. I say, he knows it, because (in P. 6, a.) he quotes and rehearses the very Words wherein I do expressly disclaim it. And I am very large and particular in testifying against it in my Book on Religious Affections: A Book, I have good Reason to think Mr. W. has seen and read, having been thus informed by a Man of his own Principles, that had it from his Mouth. There, in P. 300. e. & 301. a. I say as follows: In order to Persons making a proper Profession of Christianity, such as the Scripture directs to, and such as the Followers of Christ should require in Order to the Acceptance of the Professors with full Charity, as of their Society, 'tis not necessary they should give an Account of the particular Steps and Method, by which the Holy Spirit, sensibly to them, wrought, and brought about those great essential Things of Christianity in their Hearts. There is no Footstep in the Scripture of any such Way of the Apostles, or primitive Ministers and Christians requiring any such Relation in order to their receiving and treating others as their Christian Brethren, to all Intents and Purposes; or of their first examining them concerning the particular Method and Order of their Experiences. They required of them a Profession of the Things wrought; but no Account of the Manner of working was required of them. Nor is there the least Shadow in the Scripture of any such Custom in the Church of God, from Adam to the Death of the Apostle John. To the same Purpose again I express my self in P. 302. d. And in the Preface to the Book that Mr. W. writes against, I make particular mention of this Book on Religious Affections, wherein these Things are said; and there declare expressly, that when I wrote that Book, I was of the same Mind concerning the Qualifications of Communicants that I am of now.—But,

I know, the Word Experience is used by many in a Sort of peculiar Sense, for the particular Order and Method of ⟨p. 18⟩what passes within the Mind and Heart in Conversion. And in this Sense, Mr. W. knows, I disclaim the Notion of making Experiences a Term of Communion. I say, he knows it, because (in P. 6, a.) he quotes and rehearses the very Words wherein I do expresly disclaim it. And I am very large and particular in testifying against it in my Book on Religious Affections: A Book, I have good Reason to think Mr. W. has seen and read, having been thus informed by a Man of his own Principles, that had it from his Mouth. There, in P. 300. e. & 301. a. I say as follows: In order to Persons making a proper Profession of Christianity, such as the Scripture directs to, and such as the Followers of Christ should require in Order to the Acceptance of the Professors with full Charity, as of their Society, 'tis not necessary they should give an Account of the particular Steps and Method, by which the Holy Spirit, sensibly to them, wrought, and bro't about those great essential Things of Christianity in their Hearts. There is no Footstep in the Scripture of any such Way of the Apostles, or primitive Ministers and Christians requiring any such Relation in order to their receiving and treating others as their Christian Brethren, to all Intents and Purposes; or of their first examining them concerning the particular Method and Order of their Experiences. They required of them a Profession of the Things wrought; but no Account of the Manner of working was required of them. Nor is there the least Shadow in the Scripture of any such Custom in the Church of God, from Adam to the Death of the Apostle John. To the same Purpose again I express my self in P. 302. d. And in the Preface to the Book that Mr. W. writes against, I make particular mention of this Book on Religious Affections, wherein these Things are said; and there declare expresly, that when I wrote that Book, I was of the same Mind concerning the Qualifications of Communicants that I am of now.—But,