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was due from a consistent follower of a meek and suffering Saviour; so that he might say with the Apostle, being reviled we bless, being persecuted we suffer it, being defamed we entreat. From Ashwick, Mr. Foster, after some time, removed to Trowbridge, in Wiltshire, where was a small Presbyterian congregation, not consisting at that time of more than twenty or thirty persons. Here, in consequence of reading Dr. Gale's Treatise on Infant Baptism, he was induced to give up that practice, andf infant baptism would be a material, if not an insuperable obstacle; while the number of Baptist congregations, with whom his heretical opinions would not be a decisive objection, was at that time exceedingly small. With his little flock at Trowbridge, the change did not operate to his disadvantage; but still the sphere was so very limited, and the support they were able to afford him so very scanty, that he had serious thoughts of betaking himself to a secular employment, and with this vie