Excerpt from The Diary of John Comer Certainly, historically considered, this Diary, which is often quoted by Backus and others, is valuable. The church historian, desirous of understanding the doctrines and practices of that early day, and of rescuing from oblivion a multitude of interesting and instructive facts, will find in it much material. The secular historian, especially in the line of local history, will also find'here memoranda of events, accounts of curious circumstances, details concerning men and things, which will aid him in his researches, and throw a good deal of light upon the conditions of life and of thought almost two hundred years ago. Every citizen of Rhode Island interested in the early history of his State, ev'ery scholar of antiquarian tastes, every Baptist reverencing his ecclesiastical forefathers and wishing to know more of their beliefs, practices, and lives, every Christian, of whatever denomination, to whom American church history seems as important as the church history of former ages - all these, I am sure, will read with great pleasure and profit the Diary of John Comer, will be glad to find it elucidated by the scholarly and helpful notes which accompany the text, and will be grateful for the publication of the work. 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.