Excerpt from Letters of the Rev. John Smith: A Presbyterian Minister, to His Brother, the Rev. Peter Smith, a Methodist Preacher We cannot, however, both be in -the right. To us it is quite clear that your church, while she holds to the great essentials, ignores some important principles of religion. The gospel, Which you and your brethren preach, is not, inw deed, another gospel; the elements of salvation are there, but, as it strikes us, these elements are strangely mixed and compounded With hu man devices and human errors. It has always seemed to us that the Christian warrior, clad in the panoply of methodist-arminianism, fights at manifest disadvantage. The armor appears scant and defective. Pardon me, brother, but either we have too much, or you have not. 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.

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