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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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13. It follows from the foregoing Concessions, that Mr. W. is inconsistent with Himself in all his Arguings that Men may come to Sacraments without such a Qualification or Character as that of true Piety, Because God has given no certain Rule by which Sacraments may be restrained to such; *or Because that otherwise none might come but those that know they have such a Character; †or Because the contrary Doctrine tends to bring Saints into great Perplexities in their Attendance on Sacraments; |or from The Lawfulness of unregenerate Men's attending other Duties. ‡If there be any Force in this Arguing from other Duties to an Attendance on Sacraments, then the Argument will infer, that Men must not be admitted to other Duties, but under the Notion of their being truly godly, and from Respect to such a Character appearing on them, &c.— as Mr. W. insists with Regard to Christian Sacraments. And so if these Things which Mr. W. concedes and asserts, are true, in vain is all arguing from the like Tendency in Sacraments to convert Men, as in other Duties; †And in vain is it to argue the Lawfulness of Men's coming without this Character, from their Obligation to perform external Covenant-Duties, ¶and to carry themselves like Saints; **And in vain is all arguing from the pretended bad Consequences of the contrary Doctrine.‖
13. It follows from the foregoing Concessions, that Mr. W. is inconsistent with Himself in all his Arguings that Men may come to Sacraments without such a Qualification or Character as that of true Piety, Because God has given no certain Rule by which Sacraments may be restrain'd to such;