Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: be thus contemptuously treated?may as Arminian Lumber be unceremoniously cast out?Why on the same principle may not some other part of the same glorious Word, at the will and pleasure of another, and yet another, be with equal or even greater recklessness subjected to similar indignity ? Can any censure be too strong, with which to mark the indignation of the Church of Christ toward an act thus irreverent, thus altogether insufferable ? Is it at all to be wondered at that in the train of example such as this?treatment of the divine Word thus detestable?a whole host of men are to be found, many laying claim to possession of grace, and a few among them even professing to preach, who on the ground of its being in their esteem a root of counterfeit holiness, denounce as Arminian, Pharisaic, and legal, the whole body of the preceptory portions of the Bible ? forbidding in the redeemed Church the exhibition of that, exhibition of which for lier lualth, strength, and usefulness, Has By Jehovah Been Imperatively COMMANDED. At this point for a single moment I digress, that I may to the P. R. Baptist Churches submit, not a light and trifling, but very solemn and deeply humbling question. This then is my question: "he that hath ears to hear let Aim hear." I ask, ?In thus denouncing a great part of the Holy Bible as error?debasing it as Arminian?and contemptuously casting it out as unauthoritative and vile?does the act of the gifted Mr. Philpot in any respect differ from that reprehensible act underlying and supporting the kingdom of the great Head of antichrist in the eastern world? MAHOMMED; or that underlying and supporting the kingdom of the great Head of antichrist in the western world?THE POPE ? I candidly confess my personal inability to detect a shadow of difference. But that th...