It Is Important That When

When The Great Promise Of The Spirit Was Fulfilled On The Day Of Pentecost, It Was Fulfilled Not In Reference To The Apostles Only.

The Reformers, Therefore, As Instruments In The Hands Of God, In Delivering The Church From Bondage To Prelates, Did Not Make It A Tumultuous Multitude, In Which Every Man Was A Law To Himself, Free To Believe, And Free To Do What He Pleased.

But To Be The Vicar Of Christ, To Claim To Exercise His Prerogatives On Earth, Does Involve A Claim To His Attributes, And Therefore Our Opposition To Popery Is Opposition To A Man Claiming To Be God.

To Be In Christ Is The Source Of The Christian Life; To Be Like Christ Is The Sum Of His Excellence; To Be With Christ Is The Fullness Of His Joy.

It Is Because God Is Infinitely Great And Good That His Glory Is The End Of All Things; And His Good Pleasure The Highest Reason For Whatever Comes To Pass. What Is Man That He Should Contend With God, Or Presume That His Interests Rather Than God's Glory Should Be Made The Final End?