N05401:276
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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And whether the Point I thus take for granted, be the main Point in Question, in the general Dispute, or some subordinate Point, something under Consideration, under a particular Argument; yet if I take this particular Point for granted, and then make use of it to prove it self, 'tis begging the Question.
Thus if I were endeavouring, under this general Controversy between Mr. W. & Me, to prove that particular Point, That we ought to love all the Members of the Church as true Saints; and should bring this as a Proof of the Point, That we ought to love all the Members of the Church as true Christians, taking this for granted; this is only the same Thing, under another Term, as the Thing to be proved; and therefore is no Argument at all, but only begging the Question.
Or if the Point I thus take for granted, and make use of as an Argument, be neither the general Point in Controversy, nor yet the Thing nextly to be proved under a particular Argument; yet if it be some known controverted Point between the Parties, 'tis begging the Question, or equivalent to it: for 'tis begging a Thing known to be in Question in the Dispute, and using it as if it were a Thing allowed.