CHRISTIAN UNION; OR, AN ARGUMENT FOR THE ABOLITION OF SECTS. BY ABRAHAM YAN DYCK, COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that there be no divisions among you. - 1 Cor. i. 10. And the glory which thou givest me, I have given them, that they may be TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. NEW-YORK: D. APPLETON & Co., 200 BROADWAY. MDCCCXXXV. Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1835, By D. APPLETON & Co., In the Clerk s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. G. F. Hopkins & Son, print., 44 Nassau-street. DEDICATION. To the Rev. David Abeel, American Missionary to South Eastern Asia. REV. AND DEAR SIR: Entertaining the highest respect for your Christian character and intelligence, and appreciating your fervent zeal in the cause of our common Master, as well as your services and self-denial in the promotion of his kingdom as a minister and a missionary, I deem myself happy in dedicating to you this publication. The divisions in the church of Christ have long been to me, as they have been to many of the friends of religion, the cause of much anxious solicitude; to none, perhaps, more so than to the missionary among the heathen. He, having escaped from the atmosphere and influence of sect, soon learns to stand on the broad ground of the Bible, is enabled to take an impartial view of the nature, use, and wants of the church, and perceives the sin and folly of controversy and warfare among the friends of Christ, when all the energy and strength of union is required to resist and vanquish the hosts of darkness. From my personal knowledge of your catholic principles, the tenor of your communications made from the places of your missionary labours, and the sentiments expressed in your public addresses since your return |