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Misrepresentations corrected, and truth vindicated. In a reply to the Rev. Mr. Solomon Williams's…
Misrepresentations corrected, and truth vindicated. In a reply to the Rev. Mr. Solomon Williams's book, entitled, The true state of the question concerning the qualifications necessary to lawful communion in the Christian sacraments. / By Jonathan Edwards, M.A. Minister of the Gospel at Stockbridge. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]Misrepresentations corrected, and truth vindicated. In a reply to the Rev. Mr. Solomon Williams's book, intitled, The true state of the question concerning the qualifications necessary to lawful communion in the Christian sacraments. / By Jonathan Edwards, M.A. Minister of the Gospel at Stockbridge. ; [Five lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by S. Kneeland, 1752
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I therefore now give Notice, that I have taken full Liberty in this Respect; only endeavouring to avoid pointed and exaggerating Expressions. If to set forth what I suppose to be the true Absurdity of Mr. Williams's Scheme, or any Part of it, that it may be viewed justly in all it's Nakedness; withal observing the Weakness of the Defence he has made, not fearing to show wherein it is weak, and how the Badness of his Cause obliges him to be inconsistent with himself, inconsistent with his own professed Principles in Religion, and with Things conceded ⟨p. ii⟩and asserted by him in the Book especially under Consideration; and declaring particularly wherein I think his Arguments fail, whether it be in begging the Question, or being impertinent and beside the Question, or arguing in Effect against himself; also observing wherein Mr. W. has made Misrepresentations of Words or Things; I say, if to do these Things be reproaching Him, and injurious Treatment of Him then I have injured Him.— But I think I should be foolish, if I were afraid to do that (and to do it as thoroughly as I can) which must be the Design of my Writing, if I write at all in Opposition to his Tenets, and to the Defence he makes of them.
I therefore now give Notice, that I have taken full Liberty in this Respect; only endeavouring to avoid pointed and exaggerating Expressions. If to set forth what I suppose to be the true Absurdity of Mr. Williams's Scheme, or any Part of it, that it may be viewed justly in all it's Nakedness; withal observing the Weakness of the Defence he has made, not fearing to shew wherein it is weak, and how the Badness of his Cause obliges him to be inconsistent with himself, inconsistent with his own professed Principles in Religion, and with Things conceded ⟨p. ii⟩and asserted by him in the Book especially under Consideration; and declaring particularly wherein I think his Arguments fail, whether it be in begging the Question, or being impertinent and beside the Question, or arguing in Effect against himself; also observing wherein Mr. W. has made Misrepresentations of Words or Things; I say, if to do these Things be reproaching Him, and injurious Treatment of Him then I have injured Him.— But I think I should be foolish, if I were afraid to do that (and to do it as thoroughly as I can) which must be the Design of my Writing, if I write at all in Opposition to his Tenets, and to the Defence he makes of them.