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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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2. If there must be a Visibility and Profession of real Piety, in Distinction from moral Sincerity, so that it can be truly said, as Mr. W. says with discretive Terms, and Notes of Discrimination, that NOT MERELY the one must be professed, BUT the other; and that MORE than moral Sincerity must be professed, &c.—Then it follows (or rather it is the same Thing) that Men must profess Religion with some Discrimination, or Marks of Difference in their Words, distinguishing what is professed from moral Sincerity; contrary to what Mr. W. strenuously and frequently asserts. (P. 6. c. d. & P. 9. c. & many other Places) For if the Profession is made in Words that signify no Difference, then nothing different is signified or professed by those Words; and so nothing MORE; contrary to what Mr. W. also asserts.
2. If there must be a Visibility and Profession of real Piety, in Distinction from moral Sincerity, so that it can be truly said, as Mr. W. says with discretive Terms, and Notes of Discrimination, that NOT MEERLY the one must be profess'd, BUT the other; and that MORE than moral Sincerity must be professed, &c.—Then it follows (or rather it is the same Thing) that Men must profess Religion with some Discrimination, or Marks of Difference in their Words, distinguishing what is profess'd from moral Sincerity; contrary to what Mr. W. strenuously and frequently asserts. (P. 6. c. d. & P. 9. c. & many other Places) For if the Profession is made in Words that signify no Difference, then nothing different is signified or professed by those Words; and so nothing MORE; contrary to what Mr. W. also asserts.
3. If it be as Mr. W. says, that the Scripture has determined none ought to be admitted, but such as make an open Profession and Declaration of an hearty Consent to the Terms of the Covenant of Grace, such as covenant with God with their whole Hearts, and profess Gospel-Holiness: Then the whole of my second Argument, concerning explicit Covenanting with God, is expressly allowed, in both Premises & Consequence; Tho' Mr. W. seems at the same Time, with so much Labour and Earnestness, to militate against it. For the Premises are, that all ought openly and explicitly to own God's Covenant, or consent to the Terms of it: This is the same Thing that he asserts, as above. And the Consequence, or Thing which I inferred from it, was, that all that are admitted ought to make a Profession of real Godliness: and this also he expressly and often allows.