inglés al español Arte/Literatura Religión bautismo

I resolved to read whatever authors I could meet with upon this subject, and ***though I was soon brought to decide*** and acted upon that decision, guided, I hope, by the Word of God; yet for several years there was not an author that fell in my way, whether treating of the subjects of baptism, or the mode of it, or the spiritual intention of the ordinance, but I felt disposed to examine his arguments.

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