been atoned for, but guilt itself was destroyed : now the law was dead, now the fleshiness wherein it dwelt was dead, or, at least lying, or, as it were, continually decaying. To be a short while longer in the midstof this decay is the Christian's fate, before he, one with Christ, will rise with Christ, take part in the Divine glory, and become a " son of oil" like Christ.Then the paroxysm of Paul was at its height, and so was the obtrusiveness of his soul; with the thought of the oneness all shame, all subjection, all barriers were taken from it, and the unruly will of ambition revealed itself is an anticipatory revelling in Divine glories.This was the first Christian, the inventor of Christianity.Before him there were but a few Jewish sectarians.
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‘’Inimitable.’’—There is a great difference and distance between jealousy and friendship, between self-contempt and pride in the former moved the Greek, in thelatter the Christian.
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‘’What a rude intellect is good for.’’—The Christian Church is a encyclopedia of prehistoric cults and views of the most diversified origin, and consequently most fitted for missionary work. Formerly, as well as now, whereever she made or makes her appearance, she found and finds something similar to herself to which she may
