OF THE LAW OF BAPTISM; AS IT REGARDS THE MODE AND THE SUBJECTS. BY EDWIN HALL, PASTOR OF THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, NORWALK, CONN. THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED. NEW YORK: BAKER & SCRIBNER, BRICK CHURCH CHAPEL, 145 NASSAU STREET. 1846. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1846, by EDWIN HALL, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Connecticut. S. W. BENEDICT, Ster. and Print., 16 Spruce-street. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE FIRST EDITION. THE following Discourses were written for the DEFENCE of the truth in the author's own congregation. They are printed as they were preached; save a few inconsiderable corrections, and the addition of a few notes. They are published at the very general desire of the people for whom they were written. They contain some local allusions, and some references to the present times but as they may be both local and ephemeral in their circulation, the author chooses not to alter them. Norwalk, August, 1840. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION. Such THE unexpected favor with which the former editions of this work were received, and the continued demand for it, have induced the author to prepare another èdition. In doing this, he has embraced the opportunity to make such improvements as further investigation and more mature consideration suggested. He has also gladly availed himself of the criticisms of Mr. Carson, who honored the work with his review. reply as the author deemed the review of Mr. Carson to require, he has given in notes attached to the places of the text in question. He has done the same with the review of an American Baptist, who writes under the name of "Transmontanus." There are also included, in this edition, several dissertations (taken chiefly from the author's work on Baptist Errors) upon particular points, which could not be so fully discussed in the current of the discourses. Norwalk, March, 1846. |