drawn others into a grave mistake, I am absolutely certain. The Appendix admits that “open communion” existed among the English Baptists. It does not assert the truth of it; the “strict communion” members of the body which adopted the Confession would tolerate nothing of that nature. And as no such practice existed in the Philadelphia Association when its Confession was adopted, or at any other period in its history, such an admission would have been destitute of a fragment of truth. The Cohansie
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