Excerpt from The First General Epistle of St. John the Apostle: Unfolded and Applied As an Episcopalian, then, Hardy continued to minister in St Dionysius back-church, but Wood informs us that his congregation consisted to a greater extent of Presbyterians than of Episcopalians. If this were so, it is certainly a high tribute to the personal worth and ministerial qualifications of the man. It could have been nought but these that induced his Presbyterian parishioners to adhere to him; and it must have been a tie of wondrous strength which attached them to him, or it would have been snapped by his defection at such a time. All will admit that this was highly creditable to him, while there will be different Opinions as to how far they were right in allowing personal attachments or indi vidual qualifications to lead them to lend their countenance to a system of which they disapproved. 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.