By the Late JONATHAN EDWARDS, A. М. THEN PASTOR OF THE FIRST CHURCH IN NORTHAMPTON; AFTERWARDS PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY. WITH AN APPENDIX BY MR. FOXCROFT. EDITION SECOND. BEHOLD NOW I HAVE OPENED MY MOUTH: BE OF THE UPRIGHTNESS OF MY HEART. MY WORDS SHALL EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR WILLIAM COKE, LEITH. Confitebatur [Lutherus] dolorem fuum, quod ab ipfis reflorefcentis Evangelii Primordiis, quosvis absque Discrimine ad Cænam Dominicam admififfet, quodque Difciplinam, Fratrum Disciplinæ fimilem, apud fuos non conftituiffet. Quia objiciebatur, Fratres non habere Ecclefiam apertam; -Refponfum fuit, Sancta dare non Sanctis prohibuiffe Christum:-Errorem [in Papatu] corrigi non posse aliter quam ut certa Probatione, nec illa fubitanea, Cordium Arcana revelunter, Novitiique diu et caute tum informentur, tum explorentur. Ratio Difcipl. Fratr. Bohem gift Tappan Barb. Assi 2-13-1932 ADVERTISEMENT TO THIS EDITION. A NARRATIVE of the transactions to which the fol. lowing Treatise refers, may be read in the account of the Author's Life, which was printed originally at Boston, New England, in 1765, and lately re-printed at Glafgow. The works of the Author are now very well known in this country. The world, it is apprehended, owe no small obligation to Dr. John Erskine, one of the ministers of this city, who first introduced them to their acquaintance. THERE are very few persons attentive to the subjects on which Prefident Edwards has written, who will not acknowledge, that he has cast much light upon them. And nothing will prevent Christians from confidering the present Treatise as one of the most able and intereft. ing parts of his works, but prejudice and indifference about the subject of it. His own opinion of it may be seen in his Preface. It will there appear, if perfons should even be inattentive to its internal evidence, that it called forth the complete extent of his abilities, and |