Excerpt from Remarks on Baptismal Regeneration Under this forbearance, however, we wish openly to disavow the offieious service of labouring for an accommodation in opinion, between persons who may have their reasons for avoiding all approaches to it. Because, first, we cannot pretend to the authority which ought to go along with the assump tion of such an office; and next, not being willing to concede any part of our own belief, we could adopt no prlnciple of accommodation between others, except the firm and temperate statement of our opinions; which could be conciliatory only just so far as the grounds of them are convincing; and, lastly, we are well aware that nothing is less wel come to persons strongly engaged in a debate, than the neutrality of a peace-maker, who is likely with many to provoke the anger he would disarm, by his suspected censure of it. And therefore, as we have no special call, in our pages, to this offensive and ungracious moderation, we request that we may not incur the prejudice and evil report of it, with any description of men. In short, we address ourselves to the doctrine solely; being as far from seeking to silence the argument of any man by the assumption of a character, as we should rejoice to persuade by our own fair and legitimate deductions. Our hopes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.