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Excerpt from An Essay on the Mode and Design of Christian Baptism: In Which the Scriptures Are Carefully Examined, and Made the Only Book of Appeal for Positive Proof
The propriety of. Religious. Disputation, or cons. Troversial divinity [has been a rriatter of doubt with many. Some artfully decry it, inorder to avoid free enquiry; some'hate ir because they do not like to be against it, to save thema selves the disgrace of exposing'their ignorance, or the labor of examiningand defending their own the ses. There are others who avoid it, not because they'are convinced of the impropriety of the thing itself; but because of the evil, temper with which it is generally conducted. The propriety of it will however appear, if we consider that every article of religion is denied by some, and cannot well be be lieved by any, without examination. Religion em powers as to investigate, debate, and controvert eacharticle, in order to ascertain the evidence of its truth. The divine writings, many of them are controversi al; the book of Job, and Paul's epistles, especially. The ministry of our Lord was a perpetual controversy, and the Apostles came at truth by much disput ing.-acts xv: 7 - xv11 and xix. 8, 9. -bac/c.
The prejudice against religious controversy is irrational and hurtful. - Dr. Mason.
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