N05401:88
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 III. The Inconsistence of the forementioned Concessions with the Lawfulness of unsanctified Persons coming to the Lord's Supper, and their Right to Sacraments in the Sight of God.
SECTION III. The Inconsistence of the foremention'd Concessions with the Lawfulness of unsanctified Persons coming to the Lord's Supper, and their Right to Sacraments in the Sight of God.
MR. W. in the Book under Consideration, which He entitles The true State of the Question, insists upon it that the Question to be debated is the Question Mr. Stoddard debated in his Dispute with Dr. Mather; in whose Scheme Mr. W. declares himself to be. Mr. S. in his Dispute with Dr. Mather asserted, That it was lawful for some unsanctified Men to come to the Lord's Supper, and that they had a Right so to do in the Sight of God. And He declares that this was the Point in Dispute between Him and Dr. Mather; as in Appeal, P. 20. That which I am to show is, that some unsanctified Men have a Right before God to the Lord's Supper. So Mr. Blake (who is so great an ⟨p. 35⟩Author with Mr. W.) says in his Treatise on the Covenant, P. 244. That Faith which is the Condition of the Promise, is not the Condition in Foro dei [before God] of a Title to the Seal. And there (in the next P.) He insists, that 'Tis a common Faith, that is believed by Men not justified, which gives this Title. Agreeable to these Things Mr. W. says (P. 132. d.) Some Men have a lawful Right to the Sacrament without Sanctification. Which is the same Thing as to say, They have a Right in the Sight of God. For if they have no Right in the Sight of God to come to the Lord's-Supper, then it is not lawful in the Sight of God that they should come.
MR. W. in the Book under Consideration, which He entitles The true State of the Question, insists upon it that the Question to be debated is the Question Mr. Stoddard debated in his Dispute with Dr. Mather; in whose Scheme Mr. W. declares himself to be. Mr. S. in his Dispute with Dr. Mather asserted, That it was lawful for some unsanctified Men to come to the Lord's Supper, and that they had a Right so to do in the Sight of God. And He declares that this was the Point in Dispute between Him and Dr. Mather; as in Appeal, P. 20. That which I am to shew is, that some unsanctified Men have a Right before God to the Lord's Supper. So Mr. Blake (who is so great an