Excerpt from Body and Soul, Vol. 1It becomes, therefore, an imperious duty, urgentlyincumbent upon all friends, and particularly upon the Ministers of the English Church, to use their endeavours to stem this tide of innovation and per versity, which at first wound its way like a silent streamlet, but is now sweeping its current broadly and rapidly, and unless timely checked by those mounds and barriers which it requires only incli nation and industry to raise, will burst out into a wild and ungovernable torrent of ruin and inundation.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.