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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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16. To what Purpose is it, to object from the Parable now mentioned, That the Church ought not to go about to make a Distinction between Wheat and Tares, in their Admission of Members, by pretending to discern the Difference? When it is so apparent, that there is no Pretence to any proper Discerning in the Case, nor any other Distinction pleaded, than what is made by a Judgment of Charity: And when according to Mr. W—ms's own Scheme, Churches are obliged to make a Distinction, in the rational Judgment they pass, and to admit none, but what they judge to be true Saints; so that those who are Wheat, in the Eye of their Judgment, only are to be admitted, and such as are Tares, in the Eye of their Judgment, are to be excluded.
17. What is said by Mr. W. of the visible Church's being the School of Christ, and Men's being admitted into it as Disciples or Scholars, some of them in Order to attain Grace (P. 81. & 83.) is nothing to the Purpose, if it be as Mr. W. allows and asserts, that in Order to be admitted into this ⟨p. 32⟩School, they must be supposed, in a reasonable Judgment, to have this Attainment already, and make a Pretence to it, and a solemn Profession of it, and must give moral Evidence that they have it, and must be admitted into the School under no other Notion than that of their being already possessed of it.
17. What is said by Mr. W. of the visible Church's being the School of Christ, and Men's being admitted into it as Disciples or Scholars, some of them in Order to attain Grace (P. 81. & 83.) is nothing to the Purpose, if it be as Mr. W. allows and asserts, that in Order to be admitted into this ⟨p. 32⟩School, they must be supposed, in a reasonable Judgment, to have this Attainment already, and make a Pretence to it, and a solemn Profession of it, and must give moral Evidence that they have it, and must be admitted into the School under no other Notion than that of their being already possess'd of it.