Excerpt from Infant Church Membership, or the Spiritual and Permanent Character of the Abrahamic Covenant IN sending this little volume abroad, custom re quires that the reading public should be apprised of the circumstances that caused it to be written, and Of the Objects contemplated by the author in lts publication, as well as of the character and con tents of the book. And what is merely customary in other cases, seems very appropriate and highly important in this. The author is unknown to the literary world, and must, therefore, depend not upon an established and eminent character, but upon the intrinsic merits of his work, and the importance of the subject, to. Gain for it an extensive perusal. Good wine needs no bush, said an eminent au thoress, when asked for a preface, and bagi wine is made worse by apologies. We will, therefore, con tent ourselves with a plain and brief statement of facts. Soon after entering upon the work of the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now more than twenty years past, our attention was spe cially directed to the subject of infant baptism, by. 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.