Excerpt from The Baptist Denomination; Its History, Doctrines, and Ordinances: Its Polity, Persecutions, and Martyrs; Facts and Statistics of Its Missionary Institutions, Schools of Learning, Etc Much of the Odium which, in earlier times, has been cast upon Baptists, and occasional instances of which are seen even at the present day, has arisen from an inadequate or mis taken view Of the great fundamental principles which underlie their system Of faith and practice. We hold that it is unfair to assail a doctrine or usage of a denomination, till the demon lition of the principle upon which such doctrine or usage is based. 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.