Qualifications for Communion in Vol I of the Works - Edwards - X - Appendix

Required readingInquiry Concerning Qualifications for Communion in Vol I of the Works by Jonathan Edwards (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read the Appendix.

My summary.

Today we finish the work with a letter written by Thomas Foxcroft to Edwards answering questions regarding the opinion of Protestant Divines on the subject.

The five questions are:

I. What is the general opinion respecting that self-examination required in 1 Cor. xi. 28. Whether communicants are not here directed to examine themselves concerning the truth of grace, or their real godliness?

II. Whether it be the general opinion of those aforesaid, that some who know themselves to be unregenerate, and under the reigning power of sin, ought notwithstanding, in such a state, to come to the Lord's table?

III. Whether it be not the general opinion, that persons admitted to the Lord's table ought to profess saving faith and repentance; meaning that faith and repentance, which are the terms of the covenant of grace?

IV. Whether it be the general opinion of protestant churches and divines, in the case of adult persons, that the terms of admission to both sacraments are the same?

V. Whether it be the general opinion, that the same qualifications are required in a parent bringing his child to baptism, as in an adult person for his own admission to this ordinance?

Each is answered with citations from the writings of theologians in Europe.

What grabbed me

Nothing in particular stood out to me today as a lot of the material has already been discussed by Edwards.

But to conclude our reading of this work, I'll never cease to be amazed, as a Baptist, at the trouble paedobaptists cause themselves by admitting infants to baptism but then refusing the Lord's Supper to them when they grow up.

Next week's reading

Commence Misrepresentations Corrected and Truth Vindicated by reading Part I.

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