Excerpt from The Star Book on Baptist Church Polity Many of the churches have prepared for themselves brief manuals, embracing articles of faith, covenant, rules of order, with various statements of principles. But the greater part of them are very imperfect, and not a few are very erroneous, and misguiding in some of their positions and principles. 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.