Preface
The discussions, admissions, and conclusion of the N. S. Presbyterian General Assembly, were by that body evidently desired and attempted to be kept from the Presbyterian membership and the masses of the American people.
The desire and design of the author, or rather compiler of this little work, is to place the admissions and confessions made in that body in the hands of every American Christian and citizen—they belong to them. Will the reader aid in its general circulation?
"Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people."
Introduction
TRI-LEMMA! Tri-lemma! It is not in the Dictionaries. Pray, what is a tri-lemma asks the Reader. When one is pinned between two difficulties, we say he is in a Di-lemma. When he is pinned between two difficulties, and pierced through by a third, may we not say he is in a TRI-LEMMA? Read and decide if Protestantism is not in just such a situation.
J. R. G.
Nashville, Jan. 1, 1860.