A Letter to a Gentleman of Baltimore in Reference to the Case of the Rev Mr D
A Letter to a Gentleman of Baltimore in Reference to the Case of the Rev Mr D
Samuel Miller
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On the contrary, the} had shewn themselves, to be ar- dent, determined, eloquent and indefatigable in the propagation of their hostile sentiments ; and the candidate whom they had licensed without subscrip- tion, a few months before, was said to have manifest- ed peculiar and imremitling ardour in the same cause. Is it wonderful, then, that the Synod, even 55 if they had consultPfl nothing but " the tilings which make for peace, " should feel an invinc'ible reluctance, to receiving into the bos...om of one of their most iui- porrant Pres[)yteries, seeds of discord and strife, so vivid, and likely to be so fruitful ? Would they not have been likely to entail inces^aut warfare on that part of the Church, and eventually, perhaps, on the W hole of it, rather than to promote its " peace ?" But this is not all. The Presbytery of Balti- more is, as to numbers, a small body: so small in- deed, that on account of the advanced age and de- licate health of some of the members, aud th*' dis- tant residence of others from the usual place of meeting, it has been sometimes extremely difficult t( form a constitutional quorinu.
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