Author: John Young

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9781331364979

Excerpt from The Pulpit and Platform: Being Discourses, Arguments and Orations Kind Reader: These essays, published at different times, in Europe and America, I have now collected together for your use and entertainment. I have few hopes of public applause, and certainly no dread of opposition. The discourse on Christian Union raised against me a storm as unlooked for as it was unmerciful. I was little aware while writing it, that in striking at the creed I was awaking a very demon of bigotry and intolerance. An extreme partiality of friends evinced itself by putting this discourse without my connivance, into the corner stone of the Meeting-house of the Second Baptist Church of Trenton, and the undying enmity of opposers, has since descended even to the mean work of digging up that corner stone for the purpose of taking away the obnoxious document. Spirit of intolerance, you may dig on!!! The spade, the axe, the faggot, and the rack are more congenial weapons to you than reason or revelation. Not with such instruments can the progress of free Bible enquiry by stopped. Almost every position taken in this volume was advocated amidst much opposition; but it is surely encouraging to find that public sentiment is steadily advancing in favor of light, liberty, and love. The main feature of this book is, doubtless, its relentless opposition to all despotism, political and religious. This indicates my true character, and without the tediousness of a biography, tells the tale of the sacrifices I have made, the opposition I have encountered, and my present religious position. The world, however, is moving on apace, and if I do not run too fast or die too soon, I may yet hope to be overtaken by public approbation. Meantime, kind reader, I hope you will profit by all the good you find in this book and throw the bad away. 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.