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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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SECTION II. Some of the plain Consequences of the foregoing Concessions of Mr. WILLIAMS.
1. IF it be as Mr. W. says, that The Church ought to admit none to their holy Communion, in special Ordinances, but visible Saints, and that this Visibility must be such as to a Judgment of rational Charity, makes 'em appear as real Saints, and those that are admitted must be such as profess real Saintship, Gospel-Holiness, in Distinction from moral Sincerity; then the whole of my first Argument, from the Nature of a Visibility and Profession of Christianity, is allowed by him, in both Premises, and Consequence. And indeed Mr. W. don't only do thus consequentially, but He is express in it. In P. 4. c. taking Notice of this Argument, he says, The Sense and Force of it wholly lies in this Compass; a visible Saint is one that to the View, Appearance and Judgment of the Church, is a real Saint; and since none but visible Saints are to be admitted by the Church, therefore none are to be admitted but such as appear to the View and Judgment of the Church to be real Saints. But these Things, which Mr. W. Himself allows as the Sum of the Argument, both Premises and Consequence, are expressly allowed by Him in what there follows.
1. IF it be as Mr. W. says, that The Church ought to admit none to their holy Communion, in special Ordinances, but visible Saints, and that this Visibility must be such as to a Judgment of rational Charity, makes 'em appear as real Saints, and those that are admitted must be such as profess real Saintship, Gospel-Holiness, in Distinction from moral Sincerity; then the whole of my first Argument, from the Nature of a Visibility and Profession of Christianity, is allowed by him, in both Premises, and Consequence. And indeed Mr. W. don't only do thus consequentially, but He is express in it. In P. 4. c. taking Notice of this Argument, he says, The Sense and Force of it wholly lies in this Compass; a visible Saint is one that to the View, Appearance and Judgment of the Church, is a real Saint; and since none but visible Saints are to be admitted by the Church, therefore none are to be admitted but such as appear to the View and Judgment of the Church to be real Saints. But these Things, which Mr. W. Himself allows as the Sum of the Argument, both Premises and Consequence, are expresly allowed by Him in what there follows.