The Convert's Guide to First Principles, Or Evangelical Truth: Sustained by the United Testimony of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Apostles, and Our Pedobaptist Brethren (Classic Reprint)

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MY apology for offering these few pages to the public, is found in the history of the recent glorious revival of religion in this city. Soon after I came to this place, God poured out his Spirit upon the Baptist church and congregation, and many were converted. The first Lord's day in April, I baptized 27; the sec ond, 54, and so on until near 200 were added by bap tism, and 20 or 30 by letter. At this time, sprinkling, pouring, dipping, and close communion became the to pic amono' our opponents. To put a. Stop to this, and turn the attention of the people to the Bible, I made public this proposition I will put myself under legal bonds, to pay as a free reward, $3000, for finding in any of the received versions of the Bible, sprinkling or pouring for the action, and infants for the subjects of baptism to be paid on finding each of the above. To decide this impartially, the texts supposed to contain the doctrine shall be submitted, without de bate, to Dr. Taylor, of Yale College, and two learn ed pious Quakers. This proposition must be accept ed by some clergyman or respectable member of one of the churches of this city. No one accepted the offer; but directly, pulpits, presses, pamphlets and newspapers, like so many guns from a common batte ry, were made to bear upon the Baptist church and her doctrines, and every movement in the religious community indicated a war of words. I made appli cation to respond through the Chronicle, but was promptly refused. These, with other circumstances and events of the time, furnish at once an occasion and an apology for my present efi'ort.

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