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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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So if a Man professes Sincerity or Religion, designedly using Terms of double Signification, or (which comes to the same Things) of general Signification, equally signifying ⟨p. 42⟩two entirely distinct Things, either moral Sincerity, or real Piety, His Words are no Profession of real Piety; he makes no credible Profession, and indeed no Profession at all of Gospel-Holiness.
Posi. IV. If a Man who knows himself to be destitute of any certain Qualification, yet makes a Profession or Pretence, in Words of double Meaning, equally signifying that Qualification, and something else very different, with a Design to recommend himself to others Judgment and Apprehension, as possessed of that Qualification, he is guilty of deceitful Equivocation. This is the Notion of deceitful Equivocation, viz. the using Words of double Meaning, or capable of double Application, with a Design to induce others to judge something to be true, which is not true. But he that goes about to recommend himself by such Terms to others Opinion or Judgment, as being what he at the same Time knows he is not, endeavours to induce 'em to believe what he knows is not true, which is to deceive 'em.*
Posi. IV. If a Man who knows himself to be destitute of any certain Qualification, yet makes a Profession or Pretence, in Words of double Meaning, equally signifying that Qualification, and something else very different, with a Design to recommend himself to others Judgment and Apprehension, as possess'd of that Qualification, he is guilty of deceitful Equivocation. This is the Notion of deceitful Equivocation, viz. the using Words of double Meaning, or capable of double Application, with a Design to induce others to judge something to be true, which is not true. But he that goes about to recommend himself by such Terms to others Opinion or Judgment, as being what he at the same Time knows he is not, endeavours to induce 'em to believe what he knows is not true, which is to deceive 'em.*