Misrepresentations corrected, and truth vindicated. In a reply to the Rev. Mr. Solomon Williams's…

There is some inward Religion and Virtue or other, some Sincerity of Heart, either moral or saving, that is necessary to a Right to Sacraments in the Sight of God, and in Order to a lawful Coming to 'em. No Man, I trust, will say, that a Man has a Right in God's Sight, who has no Sort of Seriousness of Mind; and that merely outward Sounds & Motions give Him this Right in God's Sight, without Regard to any Property or Quality of Mind, and tho' this outward Show is joined with the most horrid & resolved secret Irreligion and Wickedness. Mr. W. in particular utterly disclaims such Doctrine as this, in the 3 & 4. Pages of his Preface, and always maintains that in Order to Men's lawful Coming, they must be morally sincere; as there in his Preface, and also in P. 25. d. e. P. 27. c. P. 30. d P. 35. e. P. 111.—In P. 115. he supposes, that if a Man makes a Doubt of his moral Sincerity, no Divine will advise Him to come 'till he knows.

There is some inward Religion and Vertue or other, some Sincerity of Heart, either moral or saving, that is necessary to a Right to Sacraments in the Sight of God, and in Order to a lawful Coming to 'em. No Man, I trust, will say, that a Man has a Right in God's Sight, who has no Sort of Seriousness of Mind; and that meerly outward Sounds & Motions give Him this Right in God's Sight, without Regard to any Property or Quality of Mind, and tho' this outward Shew is join'd with the most horrid & resolved secret Irreligion and Wickedness. Mr. W. in particular utterly disclaims such Doctrine as this, in the 3 & 4. Pages of his Preface, and always maintains that in Order to Men's lawful Coming, they must be morally sincere; as there in his Preface, and also in P. 25. d. e. P. 27. c. P. 30. d P. 35. e. P. 111.—In P. 115. he supposes, that if a Man makes a Doubt of his moral Sincerity, no Divine will advise Him to come 'till he knows.

Having observed this, I now desire it may be considered, whether it be reasonable to suppose, as Mr. W. does, that God would give Men that are without Grace, a lawful Right to Sacraments, so that this Qualification it self should be nothing necessary to a proper and rightful Claim to these Ordinances; and yet that he would wholly forbid 'em to come, and others to admit 'em, without their making some Pretence to it, and exhibiting moral Evidence that they have it: That moral Sincerity is the Qualification which by God's own Appointment invests Persons with a lawful Right to Sacraments, and that by his Institution nothing more is requisite