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Front Matter Ecclesiastical Writings Contents List of Illustrations Editorial Statement

Contents List of Illustrations

Contents Editorial Statement Editor's Introduction The Robert Breck Affair Congregationalism and the Gathered Church Lay and Clerical Religion Solomon Stoddard and Stoddardeanism Moving toward a Change of Mind An Humble Inquiry Critical Voices Misrepresentations Corrected Edwards' "Narrative" "Backwards and Forwards": Edwards and the Boundaries of Tradition Legacies of the Northampton Controversy Note on the Texts Acknowledgments

A Letter to the Author of the Pamphlet Called An Answer to the Hampshire Narrative The Preface A Letter, Etc.

An Humble Inquiry into the Rules of the Word of God, Concerning the Qualifications Requisite to a Complete Standing and Full Communion in the Visible Christian Church Author's Preface Preface Part I: The Question Stated and Explained. Part II: Reasons for the Negative of the Foregoing Question Part III: Objections Answered. An Appendix Being a Letter to the Author, in Answer to His Request of Information Concerning the Opinion of Protestant Divines and Churches in General, of the Presbyterians in Scotland and Dissenters in England in Particular, Representing Five Questions That Relate to This Controversy.

Misrepresentations Corrected, and Truth Vindicated Author's Preface Part I: Observing the General Misrepresentations Mr. Williams Makes Concerning the Book He Writes Against. Section 1: Concerning the Design of My Writing and Publishing My Book, and the Question Debated In It. Section 2: Observing Mr. Williams' Misrepresentations of the Principles and Tenets, Delivered in the Book Which He Undertakes to Answer. Part II: An Examination of Mr. Williams' Scheme, in the Various Parts of It. Section 1: Mr. Williams' Concessions. Section 2: Some of the Plain Consequences of the Foregoing Concessions of Mr. Williams. Section 3: 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 4: Concerning Mr. Williams' Notion of a Public Profession of Godliness in Terms of an Indeterminate and Double Signification. Section 5: Showing That Mr. Williams, in Supposing That Unsanctified Men May Profess Such Things, as He Allows Must Be Professed, and Yet Speak True, Is Inconsistent with Mr. Stoddard, and with Himself. Section 6: Concerning Visibility Without Apparent Probability. Section 7: Concerning the Lord's Supper's Being a Converting Ordinance. Section 8: The Notion of Moral Sincerity's Being the Qualification, Which Gives a Lawful Right to Christian Sacraments, Examined. Section 9: A View of What Mr. Williams Says Concerning the Public Covenanting of Professors. Part III: Containing Some Remarks on Mr. Williams' Exceptionable Way of Reasoning, in Support of His Own Scheme, and in Opposition to the Contrary Principles. Section 1: General Observations upon His Way of Arguing, and Answering Arguments; with Some Instances of the First Method Excepted Against. Section 2: Instances of the Second Thing Mentioned as Exceptionable in Mr. Williams' Method of Managing this Controversy; viz. His Misrepresenting What Is Said in the Writings of Others, That He Supposes Favor His Opinion. Section 3: Instances of the Third Thing Observed in Mr. Williams' Manner of Arguing, viz. His Pretending to Oppose and Answer Arguments, by Saying Things Which Have No Reference to 'Em, but Relate to Other Matters, Perfectly Foreign to the Subject of the Argument. Section 4: The Fourth Thing Observed in Mr. Williams' Method of Managing the Controversy, Particularly Considered, viz. His Advancing New and Extraordinary Notions, Not Only Manifestly Contrary to Truth, but Also to the Common and Received Principles of the Christian Church. Section 5: Instances of the Fifth and Sixth Particulars, in Mr. Williams' Method of Disputing, viz. His Using Confident and Peremptory Assertions, and Great Exclamations, Instead of Arguments. Section 6: Instances of the Seventh Particular Observed in Mr. Williams' Way of Disputing, viz. His Wholly Overlooking Arguments, Pretending There Is No Argument, Nothing to Answer; When the Case Is Far Otherwise. Section 7: What Is, and What Is Not Begging the Question; and How Mr. Williams Charges Me, from Time to Time, with Begging the Question, Without Cause. Section 8: Showing How Mr. Williams Often Begs the Question Himself. Section 9: Mr. Williams' Inconsistence with Himself, in What He Says in Answer to My Third and Fourth Arguments and in His Reply to My Arguments from the Acts, and the Epistles. Section 10: The Unreasonableness and Inconsistence of Mr. Williams' Answer to My Argument from the Man Without a Wedding Garment, and Concerning Brotherly Love, and from I Cor. 11:28 and of What He Says in Support of the Fifteenth Objection. Section 11: The Impertinence of Arguments, That Are in Like Manner Against the Schemes of Both the Controverting Parties: and This Exemplified in What Mr. Williams Says Concerning the Notion of Israel's Being the People of God, and His Manner of Arguing Concerning the Members of the Primitive Christian Church. Section 12: The Great Argument from the Jewish Sacraments, of the Passover, and Circumcision, Considered. Section 13: Concerning Judas' Partaking of the Lord's Supper. Section 14: Concerning That Great Argument, Which Mr. Williams Urges in Various Parts of His Book, of Those Being Born in the Church, Who Are Children of Parents That Are in the Covenant. Section 15: A Particular Examination of Mr. Williams' Defense of the Ninth Objection, or That Boasted Argument, That If It Ben't Lawful for Unconverted Men to Come to the Lord's Supper, Then None May Come but They That Know Themselves to Be Converted. Section 16: A Consideration of Mr. Williams' Defense of the Tenth Objection, Against the Doctrine of the Unlawfulness of Unsanctified Men's Coming to the Lord's Supper, That It Tends to the Great Perplexity and Torment of Many Godly Men in Their Attendance on This Ordinance. Section 17: Containing Some Further Observations on What Is Said by Mr. Williams in Support of the Thirteenth Objection, Concerning God's Commanding All the Members of the Visible Church, That Are Not Ignorant nor Scandalous, to Attend All External Covenant Duties. An Appendix, Being a Letter to the People of the First Church and Congregation in Northampton.

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