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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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SECTION I. General Observations upon his Way of arguing, and answering Arguments; with some Instances of the first Method excepted against.
MR. W. endeavours to support his own Opinion, and to confute the Book he pretends to answer, by the following Methods.
1. By frequently misrepresenting what I say, and then disputing or exclaiming against what he wrongfully charges as mine.
2. By misrepresenting what Others say in their Writings, whose Opinions he pretends to espouse.
3. By seeming to oppose and confute Arguments, and yet only saying Things which have no Reference at all to 'em, but relate entirely to other Matters, that are altogether foreign to the Argument in Hand.