Excerpt from The Body of Christ: A Series of Essays on the Scriptural Doctrine of Federal Representation<br><br>4 'the personwho adventures to issue a per formance of his own into the world, prefaced with a multitude of reasons why he did not pro duce a better; is doubtless compelled toappear Before the public in very awkward guise. Yet to the rueful necessity of maliing some such apology for the more obvious defects to be found in the foll'owing pages, the author, and editor, finds himself reduced. Nearly the one rhalf of the present Work appeared during the course of the last year in the evafigfllical Recoao and western review. 1 At'th'e commencement oi RS republication in the pre sent form, the publisher contemplated nothing more than merely to reprint the part which had then appeared; as the agitations of the West on the question of communion had given-to those numbers a momentary importance, and pro mised to promote a pretty extensive circulation of them. In this transaction the Editor did not intend to concern himself, further than in the Cor rection of several egregious errors oi the press,which had happened m the first 1mn1'ession,for Want of an attendance which he found it impos sible to give. Hence he refused to take upon himself the labour of altering. Several sentences and allusions which were suitabie enough to the {mm in_,whicll the work at first appeared, and not at all ohj'ectlonable in a n. W edition, when issued-merely under the character'of an e}; cerpt; but which make a very awkward figure in a volume of the description now issued to the world. It was the intention of the editor to have g'ontinued' these essays under a different form and title, in another work about which he is con gerned. But as the practicability of this plan soon became questionable, 1t_ Fri/215,90 harditask for him to submit to the solicitations of his pub.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.