N05401:293
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 IX. Mr. W—ms's Inconsistence with himself, in what he says in Answer to my third and fourth Arguments, and in his Reply to my Arguments from the Acts, and the Epistles.
THE last Thing observed in Mr. W—ms's Way of disputing is his alleging & insisting on Things wherein he is inconsistent with himself.— His Inconsistencies are of many Sorts: Sometimes he alleges those Things that are inconsistent with the Doctrine of those whose Principles he pretends to maintain: He abundantly urges those Things against my Scheme, which are in like Manner against his own: He often argues against those Things which he allows, and strenuously insists on: He denies what he affirms, and affirms what he utterly denies; laying down and urging those Things which are contrary to what he says in other Books; and sometimes contrary to what he says in the same Book: Yielding up the Thing wherein the Argument lies, yet strenuously maintaining the Argument; Allowing both Premises and Consequence, yet finding Fault, and opposing: Sometimes urging Things which are contrary to what he says under different Arguments; and sometimes contrary to what he says under the same Argument: Sometimes contradicting himself in the plain Sense and Meaning of what he says; at other Times even in plain Terms: Sometimes in Effect contradicting himself in the same Breath, and in the same Sentence.
THE last Thing observed in Mr. W—ms's Way of disputing is his alledging & insisting on Things wherein he is inconsistent with himself.— His Inconsistencies are of many Sorts: Sometimes he alledges those Things that are inconsistent with the Doctrine of those whose Principles he pretends to maintain: He abundantly urges those Things against my Scheme, which are in like Manner against his own: He often argues against those Things which he allows, and strenuously insists on: He denies what he affirms, and affirms what he utterly denies; laying down and urging those Things which are contrary to what he says in other Books; and sometimes contrary to what he says in the same Book: Yielding up the Thing wherein the Argument lies, yet strenuously maintaining the Argument; Allowing both Premises and Consequence, yet finding Fault, and opposing: Sometimes urging Things which are contrary to what he says under different Arguments; and sometimes contrary to what he says under the same Argument: Sometimes contradicting himself in the plain Sense and Meaning of what he says; at other Times even in plain Terms: Sometimes in Effect contradicting himself in the same Breath, and in the same Sentence.