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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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7. Hence, in vain is all the Opposition Mr. W. makes to what I allege from the Acts of the Apostles, from Chap. II. from the Story of the Eunuch, and other Parts of that Book, concerning the Manner & Circumstances of the Admission of Members into the primitive Christian Church, and the Profession they made; seeing he grants the main Point I endeavoured to prove by it, viz. That they did make, and all adult Persons that are admitted into the Church, must make, a Profession of something MORE than moral Sincerity, even Gospel-Holiness.
7. Hence, in vain is all the Opposition Mr. W. makes to what I alledge from the Acts of the Apostles, from Chap. II. from the Story of the Eunuch, and other Parts of that Book, concerning the Manner & Circumstances of the Admission of Members into the primitive Christian Church, and the Profession they made; seeing he grants the main Point I endeavoured to prove by it, viz. That they did make, and all adult Persons that are admitted into the Church, must make, a Profession of something MORE than moral Sincerity, even Gospel-Holiness.
8. Hence, in vain is all he says in Opposition to my eighth Argument, taken from the Manner of the Apostles treating and addressing the primitive Churches in their Epistles; since he does either expressly or virtually grant each of those three Things, which he himself reckons up as the Sum of what I intend under that Argument, viz. (1.) That the Apostles speak to the Churches, and of them, as supposing and judging them to be gracious Persons. (2.) That the Members of these Churches had such an Opinion of Themselves. (3.) That they had this Judgment one of another. Mr. W. allows all these. He abundantly allows and asserts, that the Members of Churches are such as […] supposed & judged, and rationally judged, to be gracious Persons, by those that admit them; that they are taken in under that Notion, and from Respect to such a Character appearing on them; and that they are rationally judged to be so by their Fellow-Christians; and that they must look at such a Character in themselves, and must make such a Pretence.