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Excerpt from Lectures on Paedobaptism
The very pillars of that building was radically de tective. This led to inquiry, to prayer - and, as I still inquired and prayed, greater and more numerous evils still appeared. I saw other churches in the same condition with my own. I heard other minis ters complain, and found, to my astonishment, that the evils, at least in our southern Zion, were not only general, but nearly universal. I inquired into the causes of these abuses. This naturally led me to search for a remedy. [wore light I perceived was evidently the only means of cure. I attempted at first to instruct but my own flock and this in the most private way. But, as the evils were common, and the very privacy of my instruction the means of its defeat, I resolved on something more extended and more public. This conviction produced the de termination to diffuse light on this subject in some way. I saw the need of some publication adapted to the exigences of the case. And although I had read several treatises on the subject, and many of them very excellent; yet, I could but conclude, that there was some circumstantial defect in them all, which would prevent their certain and immediate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.