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Engraved by Freeman for the Baptist Magazine

Published by BJ.Holdsworth, SPauls Church Yard March 11824.

Baptist Magazine

FOR

1824.

THE PROFITS

ARISING FROM THE SALE OF THIS WORK,

ARE GIVEN

TO THE WIDOWS OF BAPTIST MINISTERS,

AT THE

RECOMMENDATION OF THE CONTRIBUTO

VOL. XVI.

SPEAKING THE TRUTH IN LOVE.

EPH. IV. 15.

London:

PRINTED BY J. BARFIELD, WARDOUR-STREET, SOHO;

AND SOLD BY

B. J. HOLDSWORTH, ST. PAUL'S-CHURCH-YARD.

1824.

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PREFACE.

ON

N reviewing their labours at the close of another Volume of the Magazine, the Conductors devoutly and gratefully acknowledge the Divine Goodness which has been manifested" from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year."

The recent accession of some of their brethren, highly distinguished for talents and usefulness, as contributors to the work, has greatly strengthened the hands of the Editors.

It is a subject for mutual congratulation, between the Proprietors and the Supporters of the work, that, from its sale, the Funds for assisting our Widows are unimpaired ; while the harmony of its Managers and Editors have been uninterrupted.

Respecting the peculiar tenets of the Denomination, while the Editors had no reason to expect they would not, or even to wish they might not, be scrutinized, yet they had concluded, that empty declamation and scurrility would have been no more employed. That those who conduct a publication, professing loudly to respect the "congregational order" of our churches, should have displayed greater hostility and virulence than most of their predecessors, is a cause, if not of surprise, yet of regret. The Congregationalists of the Baptist Denomination are called upon to discountenance such illiberality; and we should expect the "confessed Baptists," also, who "belong to the Independent Churches:"-unless they can tamely submit to the charges of being "great gossips," and "great zealots;" as those who interrupt their harmony, and destroy their peace, will evince a dignified and Christian disapprobation,

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* See the Congregational Magazine for October; Article, "Review of Rev. F. A. Cox's Work on Baptism."

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