The Constitutional History of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1840 Original Publisher: W.S. Martien Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerp...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1840 Original Publisher: W.S. Martien Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: . nents. He erred in the violent and sweeping language of his sermon, which seemed to imply that an unconverted minister is no minister at all; and they erred in restricting the word call to an authoritative act giving a right to exercise the office of the ministry. A third subject of discussion was the doctrine of assurance. Mr. Tennent complained that his brethren had done great harm by teaching, "that persons might have grace and not know it."l He, at times, went to the opposite extreme. Mr. Thompson says, " I myself have heard Mr. Gilbert Tennent, with great vehemency, assert to a great congregation that every truly gracious person, or true convert, is as sensible of the grace of God in himself, or the love of God to him, as a man would be of a wound or stab, or of the blowing of the wind, or to that effect; and he maintained the same doctrine, alleging some Scripture for his support, when in private I challenged him for it, on the same evening."2 The same complaint is made against the Brunswick brethren in the Protest and elsewhere. This is one of the doctrines examined in Mr. Thompson's sermon quoted above; with regard to which he teaches, 1. That assurance is attainable in this life. 2. That it is the fault of Christians that it is not more generally attained. 3. That it may be lost. He denies, however, that every believer is assured of his gracious state from the moment that he enters upon it. In answer to the common objection, that a man must be conscious of the exercises of his own mind, he says, " It is one thing to be conscious of such and such a thought ...
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