N05401:257
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 V. Instances of the fifth and sixth Particulars, in Mr. W—ms's Method of disputing, viz. his using confident & peremptory Assertions, and great Exclamations, instead of Arguments.
WE have an Instance of the former, in his Reply to my Answer to the 14th Objection, viz. That 'tis not unlawful for unsanctified Men to carry themselves like Saints. I objected against this, if thereby be meant, that they may lawfully carry themselves externally like Saints in all Respects, remaining ungodly; and mentioned some Things ⟨p. 111⟩which belonged to the external Duty of godly Men, which no ungodly Man, remaining such, may do. To which Mr. W. makes no Reply; but to prove the Point says, Mr. St—d knew, and all Divines know, That the external Carriage of some unsanctified Men is to the outward Appearance, and the public Judgment of the Church, the same with the Carriage of the Saints; and they know they are bound to such a Behaviour. And this peremptory confident Assertion is all the Argument he brings to prove the Thing asserted.
WE have an Instance of the former, in his Reply to my Answer to the 14th Objection, viz. That 'tis not unlawful for unsanctified Men to carry themselves like Saints. I objected against this, if thereby be meant, that they may lawfully carry themselves externally like Saints in all Respects, remaining ungodly; and mention'd some Things ⟨p. 111⟩which belonged to the external Duty of godly Men, which no ungodly Man, remaining such, may do. To which Mr. W. makes no Reply; but to prove the Point says, Mr. St—d knew, and all Divines know, That the external Carriage of some unsanctified Men is to the outward Appearance, and the publick Judgment of the Church, the same with the Carriage of the Saints; and they know they are bound to such a Behaviour. And this peremptory confident Assertion is all the Argument he brings to prove the Thing asserted.