Excerpt from The Keys of Sect, or the Church of the New Testament: Compared With the Sects of Modern Christendom Few words are needful to be said, in introducing the following work to the public. It embodies in this small compass the mature results of the thinking of' a large por tion of my life. It is but just to myself to say, that the subject was never chosen with any deliberate purpose, to be investigated as the theme of a book. I have not studied it because I wished to write a book. But I have written a book, because this subject seemed forced upon my attention by the irresistible providence of God, in connection with my appointed work as a Christian minister and an educator; and because the results to which my mind has been brought by these lessons of experience seem to me worthy of the very serious consideration of the Christian public. 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.