Misrepresentations corrected, and truth vindicated. In a reply to the Rev. Mr. Solomon Williams's…

No Distinction, about the different Kinds of Knowledge, or the various Ways of knowing, will ever help these Absurdities, or reconcile such Inconsistencies. If there be any such Sort of Knowing, as is contra-distinguished to probable Thinking, and to such Opinion as is built on a Thousand Probabilities, which yet is consistent with being ignorant, not believing, being uncertain, not assured, not convinced, only looking on a Thing probable, looking on it doubtful and uncertain, it must certainly be a new & very strange Sort of Knowledge.

No Distinction, about the different Kinds of Knowlege, or the various Ways of knowing, will ever help these Absurdities, or reconcile such Inconsistencies. If there be any such Sort of Knowing, as is contra-distinguish'd to probable Thinking, and to such Opinion as is built on a Thousand Probabilities, which yet is consistent with being ignorant, not believing, being uncertain, not assured, not convinced, only looking on a Thing probable, looking on it doubtful and uncertain, it must certainly be a new & very strange Sort of Knowlege.

But this Argument, that is so clear and invincible, must have such Supports as these, or must quite sink to the Earth. It is indeed a remarkable Kind of Argument. It is not only as much against the Scheme it is brought to support, as against that which it would confute; but abundantly more so. For if it were the Case in Truth, that none might come ⟨p. 158⟩to the Lord's Supper, but they that know they have a Right, yet it would be no direct and proper Proof, that unconverted Men might come. It would indeed prove, that many godly Men might not come: Which, it is true, would bring some Difficulty on the Scheme opposed; yet would be no Proof against it. But it is direct and perfect Demonstration against the Scheme it would support: It demonstrates, according to the Scripture, and according to the Doctrine of those that urge the Argument, that not one unconverted Man in the World may lawfully come to the Lord's Supper; as no one of them certainly knows the Gospel to be divine, and so no one knows the Charter to be authentic, in which alone the Right of any to Christian Privileges is conveyed; Hence no one unsanctified Man is sure of his Right; and therefore (as they draw the Consequence) no one unsanctified Man may come to the Lord's Supper. And so it follows, that the more strongly Mr. W. stands to this Argument, the more peremptory and confident his Expressions are concerning it, the more violently and effectually does he supplant himself.