Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: LECTURE I. THE CHURCH AND THE COMMISSION. I. The commission to the Apostles considered?in its conditions? and perpetuity?the inherency of the Church in Christ, the cause and condition of its greatness and blessedness. II. I. Two theories?the one transferring the attributes of Christ to men as his vicegerents within the Church?another, with a mere ministration of men, leaving the actual exercise of the church offices to the Redeemer Himself, united to the soul of the believer through faith?2. The position of the Church of England, and present dangers. III. Practical remarks on the corruption and true nature of the Church Catholic?and our relation to primitive antiquity. Matthew xxvm. 19, 20. " Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen." I. fTlHIS is a wonderful and pregnant assurance, -- and well worth our meditating. For, firstly, there are in its brief but comprehensive declaration decisive marks of a divine original, that wide and all-embracing vision by which God commands at once and without effort, from the beginning to the end of the transactions which He foreknows, and which His power and wisdom overrule. It is pre- cisely similar in character to that magnificent fusing into one of the present and uttermost future in which the prophets of old, under the inspiration of Him who was now Himself a Prophet, speak of God,s dealings with the spiritual Zion?of that very church which Christ was now about to build upon Himself?the eternal rock and sure foundation of it! So it is here, exactly,?He does not take into account the mutabilities and accide...