A Refutation of Sundry Baptist Errors; Particularly as They Are Set Forth in a Recent Work of REV. J. J. Woolsey, and in the Third Annual - Softcover
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... from our employments longer than we are detained from them by attendance upon these assemblies, is an ordinance of human institution." The reader will see how little it helps Mr. Woolsey to quote Dr. Paley, in aid of the proof on his principles, that the Lord's day is to be regarded as a Sabbath. We maintain that Paley is greatly and grievously in the wrong. But it is notorious that multitudes of Baptists hold to his views;--to which indeed their principle of arguing most logically leads them;--nor can Mr. Woolsey go even so far as Paley in pleading for a Divine precept requiring us to observe the Lord's day, without first giving up the principle on which he rejects the evidence for infant baptism. TERMS OF CHRISTIAN UNION. Mr. Woolsey is full and frequent in declaring his own kind'feelings and impartial love of the truth in his discussion of the question between us. "I have," says he, "this testimony, that what I have written, was penned with much affection towards those from whose views I conscientiously dissent." "If I know my own heart, I have said nothing out of strife, or with the desire to wound the feelings of others." "I have no selfish ends to answer, nor any party feeling to gratify." It is not for us to disturb Mr. Woolsey's inward "testimony," nor to question it. And yet it is, somehow, strange that "much affection should be so continually breaking out in such strains as abound in almost every page of his book." A few samples hare been incidentally brought to light in the course of this examination--such as these; "At the laboring oar day and night to make sprinkling answer for immersion--and to keep their consciences in a state of tolerable rest." "Pitiful in the extreme, that such efforts should be made to avoid...
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