Excerpt from The Works of Augustus M. Toplady, A. B, Vol. 3 of 6: Late Vicar of Road Hembury, Devon Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith; grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. Some have thought that Timothy was not converted under the ministry of St. Paul; and they ground their conjecture on Acts xvi. 1, 2. Where Timothy is mentioned as a disciple, and a person -well reported of by the Chris tians at Derbe and Lystra, previous to St. Paul's visitation of those places. That Timothy was a nominal professor of religion, and a youth of circum spect behaviour, are evident from that passage: which external form of godliness was, probably, the effect of the religious'r education he had the hap piness to receive from his earliest childhood. But, from St. Paul's compellation of him as his own son in the faith it may, I think, be reasonably inferred. 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.