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DEBATE

ON

CHRISTIAN BAPTISM,

BETWEEN

THE REV. W. L. MACCALLA, A PRESBYTERIAN TEACHER,

AND

ALEXANDER CAMPBELL,

HELD AT WASHINGTON, KY. COMMENCING ON THE 15TH AND TERMI
NATING ON THE 21ST OCT. 1823, IN THE PRESENCE OF A VERY

NUMEROUS AND RESPECTABLE CONGREGATION,

IN WHICH ARE INTERSPERSED

AND

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

ANIMADVERSIONS

ON

DIFFERENT TREATISES ON THE SAME SUBJECT,

WRITTEN BY

DR. J. MASON, DR. S. RALSTON, REV. E. POND, REV. J.
P. CAMPBELL, RECTOR ARMSTRONG, AND

THE REV. J. WALKER.

BY ALEXANDER CAMPBELL.

"There are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially
they of the circumcision; teaching things which they ought not
for filthy lutre's sake; whose mouths must be stopped."-Paul,

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District of Virginia, west of the Allegheny Mountains, to wit:

BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-second day of April, A. D. 1824, in the 48th year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. CAMPBELL, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, to wit:

"A Debate on Christian Baptism between the Rev. W. L. Maccalla, a Presbyterian teacher, and Alexander Campbell, held at Washington, Ky. commencing on the 15th and terminating on the 21st Oct. 1823, in the presence of a very numerous and respectable congregation. In which are interspersed and to which are added Animadver sions on different treatises on the same subject, written by Dr. J. Mason, Dr. S. Ralston, Rev. E. Pond, Rev. J. P. Campbell,.. Rector Armstong, and the Rev. J. Walker, by Alexander Campbell.

"There are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision; teaching things which they ought not for filthy lucre's sake; whose mouths must be stopped.—Paul.”

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In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,' and also of the act, entitled, An Act supplementary to an act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefit thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.'

[SEAL.]

J. WEBSTER,

Clerk of the District of Virginia west of the Allegheny Mountains.

Our intention in securing the copy-right is not to prevent the circulation of this work by new editions, nor to profit by selling the right. But as we have embarked a very considerable sum in a large edition of this work, we wish to be remunerated our expenses before another edition be struck. After the present im pression is sold, we will give the right of publication to any ap plicants, who may be disposed to republish in any distant part of the Union, for a very small consideration.

Buffaloe, Brooke Co. Va.

May, 1824,

A. CAMPBELL.

TO THE

CITIZENS OF KENTUCKY,

DISTINGUISHED for their general intelligence, their patriotism, their love of civil and religious liberty, and their courteous regard to the laws of hospitality; the following statement of the discussion, recently held in their State, is gratefully inscribed by the writer, as a small token of his grate ful remembrance of their kind attention and hos pitality towards him while attending the conference herein presented, and during the time he spent in riding through their state. That they may ever enjoy the blessings of civil and religious liberty, a Scriptural knowledge of the doctrine of salvation, and the peculiar felicity which flows from a course of life regulated by the faith of the Gospel, and the hope of immortality, is the unfeigned wish of their friend, and obedient servant,

A. CAMPBELL.

ERRATA.

Page 33, line 43 from top, for conceiving, read, concerning. Ira sundry places, for Robertson, read, Robinson. P. 70, line 7, after but, read, what. P. 194, line 28, after Jewish, read, and Christian. P. 195, line 25, for first, read, second. P. 229, line 2, for pervade, read, precede. P. 238, line 16, for two, read 200. P. 253, line 24. for, is it, read, it is. P, 290, line 38, for, doth, read both. P. 319, line 16, for frequently, read, unfrequently. P. 346, line 18, for nor, read, or. P. 350, line 5, for cinque, read, sink. P. 373, line 34, for country, read, county. P. 397, lines 6 and 12, for mr. M., read, mr. W..

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It is long since religious controversy began. The first quarrel that arose in the human family was about religion; and since the proclamation "I will put enmity between thy seed and her seed," the controversy has been carried on by different hands, by different means, and with various success. It is the duty of the Christian, and has ever been the duty of the saint, to contend for the truth revealed, in opposition to error. From the days that Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses down to the present time, every distinguished saint has been engaged in controversy. The ancient prophets, the Saviour of the world, and his holy apostles, were all religious controversialists. The Saviour's life was one continued scene of controversy and Debate with the scribes, the elders, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and with the established priesthood of his era. The apostles were noted disputants and the most successful controversialists that ever lived. Paul, the apostle, was more famous in this department than Alexander, or Buonaparte, in the field. Whether a Stoic, or an Epicurean philosopher, a Roman orator, a Jewish high priest, or a Sadducean teacher encountered him, he came off victorious and triumphant. Never was he foiled in battle, never did he give back; the sword which he wielded, and the arm which directed it, proved resistless in the fight.

There are not a few who deprecate religious controversy as an evil of no small magnitude. But these are either the ill-informed, or those concious that their principles will not bear investigation. So long as there is good and evil, truth and error in this world, so long will there be opposition, for it is in the na

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