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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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IX. Mr. W. is not contented with all these Representations of my Scheme, but will have it appear more absurd and monstrous still; and therefore represents me as maintaining, ⟨p. 20⟩that 'tis not the visible Profession of Experiences, that I suppose the Ground of the Church's Judgment; but these Experiences and inward Feelings Themselves, by having the Heart turned inside out, and viewing them immediately in the Heart itself, and judging upon the next and immediate Actings of the Heart.—Here, I only desire the Reader to read down Mr. W—ms's 7th Page, and make his own Reflections.
X. Whereas, in P. 16. of my Book, I observed it to be the Opinion of some, that, Although' the Members of the visible Church are Saints in Profession and Visibility, and in the Acceptance of others, yet this is not with Reference to saving Holiness, but to quite another Sort of Saintship, viz. moral Sincerity; and that this is the real Saintship, Discipleship, and Godliness, that is professed and visible in Them, &c. Mr. W. (P. 4, 5.) says, He don't remember that he ever heard of this, or that any Body thought of it, before he saw it in my Book; and represents it as a poor Man of Straw, of my own framing: and he insists upon it, that 'tis allowed on all Hands, that the Visibility must be with Reference to saving Holiness.
X. Whereas, in P. 16. of my Book, I observed it to be the Opinion of some, that, Altho' the Members of the visible Church are Saints in Profession and Visibility, and in the Acceptance of others, yet this is not with Reference to saving Holiness, but to quite another Sort of Saintship, viz. moral Sincerity; and that this is the real Saintship, Discipleship, and Godliness, that is profess'd and visible in Them, &c. Mr. W. (P. 4, 5.) says, He don't remember that he ever heard of this, or that any Body tho't of it, before he saw it in my Book; and represents it as a poor Man of Straw, of my own framing: and he insists upon it, that 'tis allow'd on all Hands, that the Visibility must be with Reference to saving Holiness.