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Original Introduction<br />
we should be more holy if plunged in water.<br />
One thing which tended much to keep me<br />
from examining the subject, was my being<br />
informed, that when people became Baptists,<br />
they not only lost all zeal for the spread of the<br />
gospel but were in a great measure shut out<br />
from usefulness. I had also imbibed a thorough<br />
contempt for bigotry, or in other words, for<br />
attention to any part of the order established<br />
by Jesus Christ in his churches, <strong>and</strong><br />
consequently my conscience was in a great<br />
measure seared against conviction on the<br />
subject.<br />
With these views I began to preach,<br />
endeavoring to call the attention of my fellow<br />
men to the doctrine of salvation by grace<br />
through faith. I had not at that time any<br />
underst<strong>and</strong>ing of the nature of church<br />
fellowship, or of the importance of purity of<br />
communion. Imagining, that our only concern<br />
when at the Lord’s table was with the state of<br />
our own hearts, I considered it unnecessary to<br />
think of others, <strong>and</strong> therefore without any<br />
reluctance I attended the sacrament, <strong>and</strong> joined<br />
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