N05401:364
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 here let it be noted, what Sort of Knowledge of a Right Mr. S. and so Mr. W. mean in this Argument. 'Tis Knowledge as distinguished from such an Opinion, or Hope, as is founded on Probability. Thus Mr. S. expressly insists, that a Man must not only THINK he has a Right, but he must KNOW it. (Appeal, P. 62.) And again, (P. 63.) He says, Probable Hopes won't warrant him to come.
And here let it be noted, what Sort of Knowledge of a Right Mr. S. and so Mr. W. mean in this Argument. 'Tis Knowledge as distinguished from such an Opinion, or Hope, as is founded on Probability. Thus Mr. S. expresly insists, that a Man must not only THINK he has a Right, but he must KNOW it. (Appeal, P. 62.) And again, (P. 63.) He says, Probable Hopes won't warrant him to come.
Mr. W. uses many peremptory strong Expressions (P. 109.) to set forth the Certainty of that which never was denied; viz. That a Man can't know he has a Right, unless he knows he has the Qualification which gives him a Right. But this is not the Thing in Question: The Point is, Whether a Man mayn't have a lawful Right, or mayn't lawfully come, and yet not know his Right, with such a Knowledge and Evidence as is beyond Probability? This is the Thing asserted, and herein lies the Argument. And the Negative of this cannot be stood to and maintained, in Order to maintain Mr. W—ms's Scheme, without the grossest Absurdity; it being a Position, which, according to Scripture, Reason, Mr. S—d's Doctrine, and Mr. W—ms's own, effectually destroys his Scheme.
Mr. W. uses many peremptory strong Expressions (P. 109.) to set forth the Certainty of that which never was denied; viz. That a Man can't know he has a Right, unless he knows he has the Qualification which gives him a Right. But this is not the Thing in Question: The Point is, Whether a Man mayn't have a lawful Right, or mayn't lawfully come, and yet not know his Right, with such a Knowlege and Evidence as is beyond Probability? This is the Thing asserted, and herein lies the Argument. And the Negative of this cannot be stood to and maintain'd, in Order to maintain Mr. W—ms's Scheme, without the grossest Absurdity; it being a Position, which, according to Scripture, Reason, Mr. S—d's Doctrine, and Mr. W—ms's own, effectually destroys his Scheme.