Excerpt from A Candid Reply to the Reverend Doctor Hemmenway's Remarks on a Dissertation on the Scriptural Qualifications: For Admission and Access to the Christian Sacraments So long as maladies remain, we ought to make ufe of the proper remedies. So long as men differ in their religious fentiments, there will be occafion for religious difputes. Though it is devoutly to be wiflg d, that all, who enjoy the gofpel, might be hearuly united in the bel1ef of NS great and impor tant truths yet, fo long as any of thefe are' either denied or perverted, it becomes thofe, who are fet for the defence of the gofpel, to contend earnefily' for the faith, which was once delivered to the faints. The truth will bear examination, and, there fore, it will {hine the brighter, even by ill-defigned and illacondueted difputes. Every religious con troverfy naturally excites thofe, who are employed in it, to give the fubje8; of debate a more full and thorough dtfcuffion, than the fame perfons would be capable of doing, without the mutual alfifiance of mutual oppofition. And, upon this principle, we have always reafon to hope, that the caufe of truth will eventually gain more than it lofes, by all the difputes on religious fubjee'ts. 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.