Excerpt from The Voluntary System: A Prize Essay, in Reply to the Lectures of Dr. Chalmers on Church Establishments
With the faults of this publication no one can be more intimately acquainted than the author him self. In apology it may be stated, that the greater portion of it was written in seasons when he sought relief from the fatigues of the urgent and arduous duties of a London pastor, - duties that allow but little time auspicious for literary occupations.
If any Object to the brevity and conciseness of a work that professes to settle so intricate a question.
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