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James. If the author had been acquainted with any treatise on the subject, in which the principles here laid down and illustrated had been sufficiently developed, he would have spared himself the trouble of this production. As the author not only renounces all claim to infallibility, but is sorrowfully conscious of liability to error; and as he is anxious to render this little work as useful as possible, he will be most happy, in case of its coming to a second edition, to avail himself of the hints of his brethren, and the remarks of friendly critics, in order to render it more worthy of public esteem, and more adapted to general usefulness. It is more than probable that on such a subject his views will be opposed by some; and the moment they are shown to be opposed to theS criptures, he will abandon them himself, and thank the man who has convinced him of liis error. Clirts. Fell., pp. v., vi. Dr. Wardlaw. Some are disposed to deprecate all such discussions as the one on which I am now entering, under the common designation of unprojitable controversy. That it is controversy, I admit, that it is unprofitable controversy, I deny (I nf. Bap., p. 1). To my friends .. .I would say with affection, but with firmness the contest is not with persons, but with principles and systems. I have ever delighted in the friendly fellowship of all good men: I shall not be the first to relinquish it: but if it cannot be enjoyed in union with imtrammelled freedom in the dissemination of what I believe to be the truth of God, He who has said, Whoso loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, requires the sacrifice (P ref. to Ser. on John xviii. 36, p. ii. 1. Controversy is not a work from which any well-constituted mind should slirink. If it be conducted in the spirit of theM aster whom we serve, it is an important and indispensable means of eliciting truth. Glas.
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