Excerpt from An Inquiry Into the Usage of Baiitiz, and the Nature of Judaic Baptism: As Shown by Jewish and Patristic Writings It was my lot to hear in a Baptist church, a Baptist preacher advocate a Baptist Bible, on this wise I argued in the pul pit of a Baptist minister, not favorable to a new Version, the necessity of a new Translation, because there were words in the old not understood. I quoted, in illustration, 'jacob sod pottage.' Why, said he, Brother I know what that means; I've dug sods many a time He then pressed his point by appealing to his own case, saying, I was preaching from the text, they that are alive shall not prevent them that sleep, ' and having some peculiar Views on the resurrection, sustained them by 'prevent' in the sense to hinder. After service a friend said to me, Brother prevent' dont mean lo hinder; but I replied, Think I dont know what prevent means? It does mean to hinder. However, I found out afterward, that prevent does not mean to hinder. So I prove to you we must have a new Version. If these friends of the critic were the kind of men he puffs at, as mere pastors, whose business is to preach, as it is a family affair, I have nothing to say. But as this good writer seems to appreciate only a certain style of evidence, and assured that it will make him look with admiration on Classic Baptism, should he ever have the good fortune to see its cover, I will give him the im portant information, that the country Village in which the greater part of the life of its author was spent, contains only something less than a million of souls. 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.