Excerpt from Christian Discipleship and Baptism: Being Eight Lectures in Reply to the Theory Advanced by Dr. Halley in the Congregational Lecture of 1843 Had any suspicion rested on the lawfulness of yielding to this tendency, the strong combining influ ence of Christian principles in mankind would have called for extreme watchfulness and self-denial but the Lord has spared his people from any such restraint: he has written his command to love one another with as much clearness as can be given to any form of words whatever. To indulge the love of union is, therefore, in the body of Christ, converted into positive duty. 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.