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it is found in Robinson's Charles V., and in a View of All Religions, by Ross, published in London, 1664; as I know the matter to be very offensive to our Baptist friends; also believing it to be unrighteous to attribute the "iniquities of the fathers to the children." Although Mr. B. has laboured hard to establish the charge of heresy against the founder of Methodism, in the matter of baptismal regeneration, a doctrine which he must have known that wise and good man no more held than he believed that "Thomas Stork held communion with God, by means of an angel," yet I will not retaliate by recounting the doctrines and practices of the German Anabaptists.

Here I take leave of this subject, praying that God may keep us from the by-ways of error, and lead us into the way of truth.

HENRY SLICER.

Alexandria, October 7, 1835.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

WHEN the Appeal was first put to press, the author was not aware that the demand for the work would be more than to justify the issuing of a small edition; accordingly, a thousand copies were issued, nearly all of which were disposed of in a few weeks, and another edition was demanded, with a request that it should be enlarged in one or two parts.

The reception with which it met from the candid and intelligent of different denominations, not excepting the Baptists, (for I never heard of its giving much offence to any one except Mr. B.,) and the assurances of its usefulness which reached me from different parts of the country, convinced me of the propriety of revising and enlarging the work, and publishing a second edition. But as I wished to know what course Mr. Broaddus would take in the matter, it was judged best to defer the publication of a future edition, until he should either reply, or decline any further controversy on the subject. After waiting some time for an answer, I learned, through a friend, that he would reply about Christmas; I looked in vain to that period for an answer, for it passed, and also the long

month of January, and the cold month of February, and the winds of March, and the showers of April, all passed, and no answer came; and in the month of June, while I was just about to conclude that Mr. B. had abandoned the idea of answering, a friend informed me that the reply was then in press. I then began to reason in my own mind, in order, if possible, to find out what could have detained the answer for seven long months, and upon reflection I recollected that the Upperville sermon, although delivered the sabbath before winter, was not issued from the press until the ice and snow of the cold season had all melted, and the singing of birds was heard in the land; and what makes this the more remarkable is, the fact that his note to the reader is dated December, 1834 :has this all been the result of accident? or does not Mr. Broaddus know that an argument for immersion stands but little chance of exerting a proselyting influence in mid-winter? But be this as it may, one would think that if "he found (as he says he did) that my bold assertions were likely to pass for sound argument with some, who lacked either capacity or leisure to examine for themselves; while the serious imputations I had cast upon his motives were likely to awaken suspicions in a com

munity but little acquainted with him, unfavourable to his reputation;" surely he should have hastened to the rescue of his favourite theory from the hands of those "bold assertions," and from those "who lacked capacity or leisure to examine for themselves," and especially to have silenced all "suspicion unfavourable to his reputation ;" and more especially," as he soon found that some of my readers were inclined to attribute his silence to a consciousness of guilt," page 59. And yet, strange to tell, this gentleman defers his answer for seven months. Perhaps he thought that the impression that my "bold assertions" made last fall, with regard to the ordinance, would, with the aid of a little time, become erased from the minds of the good people of Virginia, who were destitute of 'capacity or leisure to examine for themselves" -and that he could repeat over the arguments, I will not say "bold assertions," of his strictures and sermon, and utter his complaints long and loud, about being "misquoted," "misrepre sented," his "motives impugned," "personal defamation," &c., &c., and thus hide himself in the smoke of his own raising. And if he did not succeed in slaying "Goliath," he would at least show the community that,

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Although vanquished, he can argue still."

I promised the candid reader not to answer "arguments or sophistry that I had already replied to." I shall, in a Further Appeal, however, take such notice of Mr. B.'s twenty-one letters as I may think them entitled to.

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I confess I expected when I wrote that Mr. B. would reply, for I knew that those who have vanity enough to compare themselves to the warrior David, page 42, would make a show of fight, although there might be, in reality, neither a sling in his hand, nor a smooth stone left in the shepherd's bag," they would fancy, too, that they heard the death-groan of the giant, and that they had given his head to the host of Israel, and his carcass to the fowls of heavento the vultures, of course.

But in all seriousness, (speaking without a figure,) I was surprised that the gentleman. should show so much morbid sensibility, and that he should take up so much of his letters in attempts to excite the sympathy of the public for the much injured man. Could not the candid reader judge whether my weapons were those of "personal defamation” and “sarcasm,” or those of Scriptural argument and sober reason? Did Mr. B. fear that the candid reader had not "capacity" to see that I was "almost a stranger to the use of all weapons, except

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