Excerpt from The Methodist Magazine, for the Year of Our Lord 1822, Vol. 5 Churches and Ministers assembled there, flpml 25, 1821 by. James bennett, IT devolves on me, my dear hearers, others; and not by, my own choi' of supporting the ministry of th the first mention of this subject will startle many, and awagen a thousand reflections on the delicacy, not to say the invidigmismss of the attempt. But as I hope to give the most satisfactory proof that divine authority binds this duty on the conscience, I presume that you feel it would be an affront to your good sense, and a re fieotion on your Christian principles, to waste your time in efi'orts 'to display the propriety of inculcating that which God has oom manded, and of resolving, that neglect on this point shall not rob us of the right to say, We have kept back nothing that was pro friable to you, nor shunned to declare the Whole course of God. If any shrink from this subject, not on their own account, but for the sake of others, lest the discussion should prove injurious to re ef mercenary motives. 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.