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and then went about to establish Peodobaptist - and that if the Baptist friends north heard of their proceedings with me, that they would forever discard them - 

This course had the effect to produce in two of the Baptists Churches - one of them large and influential strong alienations from me, so much so as to refuse me their pulpit, and brought one of them tough I was not in the city, last Sabbath to blows.

I regret exceedingly this intemperate zeal - on the part of these Leaders, that came here under the [[?]] of the Christian Commission to sow such an unhappy

Transcription Notes:
The term paedobaptist is thus something of a misnomer. We don’t merely baptize young children; we baptize both professing believers and their young children, and, in that sense, we are both credobaptist and paedobaptist. What distinguishes u s from our credobaptist brothers and sisters is the word only. Credobaptists baptize professing believers only, whereas we baptize professing believers and their children.