Excerpt from The Works of Mr. Archibald M'lean, Late Pastor of the Baptist Church, Edinburgh, Vol. 3 of 6: With a Memoir of His Life, Ministry, and WritingsIT is now three quarters of a century and upwards since the attention of Christians in Scotland was called to the question of Infant Baptism by Mr Archibald Maclean. Previously to that time the doctrine of the spirituality of the New Testament Church had been asserted by Mr John Glas, minister of Tealing. Mr Maclean received his first saving acquaintance with the truth under the preaching of the famous Mr John Maclaurin, one of the ministers of the Established Church in Glasgow. Having been led by the reading of Mr Glas's Testimony of the King of Martyrs, to embrace the views advocated in that work of the spiritual constitution of the Church of Christ, and to separate himself from the Established communion, he was soon enabled to perceive that his principles inevitably conducted him to the renunciation of infant baptism as a chief part of that fleshly system of administration against which he had entered his protest. The present volume contains a series of letters addressed to Mr Glas on this subject, dated in 1766. In these he expounds his views as opposed to the inconsistencies in which Mr Glas's continued maintenance of infant baptism necessarily in volved him.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.