Excerpt from The Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in Philadelphia: An Historical Discourse The principles and illustrations of the preliminary discussion, may at least, prove encouraging to those who are engaged in the good, but arduous and often heart-trying work of building up new churches. And if these suggestions should help any reader to take proper scriptural views of the high vocation of even the feeblest Church of Christ, it will not be labour in vain. With these remarks, the discourse is committed to the press, in the hope that it may subserve the in terests of the Master's kingdom, and stimulateus all to a nobler and more effective service. 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.