IF TE BE CHRIST'S, THEN ARE YE ABRAHAM'S SEED, AND HEIRS
ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE.
In that universal charter of grace, wherewith God has enriched his Church, the ministers of the everlasting Gospel are not only included, but particularized. Paul, Apollos, Cephas, and their successors, the ambassadors for Christ, with their intellectual and spiritual attainments, their trials, experiences, consolations, and labours of love, are substantial parts of this allcomprehending inheritance. Even such a portion has the Christian in every Saint, of whom the Scriptures have borne record, whether under the Old or New Testament. Assuredly those judgments which befel the offending Israelites in the wilderness, "happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world