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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1847 Excerpt: ... PART I. Circumstances which led to the call of the First Mutual Council in July, 1843. Bomb of the leading causes of the present division in the church and society in Reading, had their origin in feelings, opinions, and animosities which existed in a generation now almost gone. As early as 1810, there was an open division in the church, and in 1820, the minister who had then been settled here thirty years was dismissed. With him, especially with his doctrinal views, (professedly high Hopkinsian, ) a portion of the church has ever since sympathized. Of two of his successors, one dismissed in 1823, and the other in 1833, it is sufiicient to say that they both were the subjects of opposition. In the summer of the year last mentioned I was invited to preach in this place. I found the church and people in a state of division and excitement on the subject of Infant Baptism, and learned that they had then been so about two years. This excitement seemed gradually to die away, and in September, 1833, I was installed the minister of this church and parish. I found, however, in a few months, that the elements of discord still lived; that nominal Hopkinsianism was with many practical Antinomianism; and that its spirit arrogantly assumed to itself most of the piety in the church, and the right to control the minister in his preaching and intercourse with his people. My doctrinal sentiments, which were essentially Calvinistic, as they ever have been, did not from the beginning accord with the notions of some; while others, who were professedly friendly at the time of my settlement, began in the course of three or four years to find fault occasionally with my preaching. Not that my sermons were deficient in doctrine--not that they were superficially studied--but because I ..


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781150011931
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 72
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1150011939
  • Publisher Date: 01 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 145 gr


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