his house minister "at times" to do duty. A Certificate from
Northamptonshire, against the pluralities and other such scandals,
published in 1641, declared that not a child or servant in Hackleton
or Piddington could say the Lord's Prayer. Carey sought the
preaching of Doddridge's successor at Northampton, of a Baptist
minister at Road, and of Scott the commentator, then at Ravenstone.
He had found peace, but was theologically "inquisitive and
unsatisfied." Fortunately, like Luther, he "was obliged to draw all
from the Bible alone."

When, at twenty years of age, Carey was slowly piecing together "the
doctrines in the Word of God" into something like a system which
would at once satisfy his own spiritual and intellectual needs, and
help him to preach to others, a little volume was published, of
which he wrote:--"I do not remember ever to have read any book with
such raptures." It was Help to Zion's Travellers; being an attempt
to remove various Stumbling-Blocks out of the Way, relating to
Doctrinal, Experimental, and Practical Religion, by Robert Hall. The
writer was the father of the greater Robert Hall, a venerable man,
who, in his village church of Arnsby, near Leicester, had already
taught Carey how to preach. The book is described as an "attempt to
relieve discouraged Christians" in a day of gloominess and
perplexity, that they might devote themselves to Christ through life
as well as be found in Him in death. Carey made a careful synopsis
of it in an exquisitely neat hand on the margin of each page. The
worm-eaten copy, which he treasured even in India, is now deposited
in Bristol College.

A Calvinist of the broad missionary type of Paul, Carey somewhat
suddenly, according to his own account, became a Baptist. "I do not