THE Kingdom of God is a pure and spiritual kingdom.  Yet it hath pleased God that this kingdom (His Church) shoud exist under different circumstances, and in different states.  The greatest differenc in its mode of existenc is that between its militant and triumphant state.  In its militant stat it has lived under thre distinct forms -- onc under the patriarchal; after that under the Mosaic or Jewish dispensation; now does sinc Christ's resurection, and til its complete victory wil exist under the Gospel dispensation.

Thes dispensations, as tha hav succeded ech other, hav shon with clerer light, hav been esier of acces, or more esily understood by the finite mind.  Christ, the end of law for rightousnes under the two former governments was prefigured by a multitude of rits and ceremones, but when the refulgent light of the gospel burst upon the world, these ceremones were abolished, and the institution of two religus representations only were necesary for the observanc of the advocates and devotees of Christianity, Baptism and the Supper.  Yet how wonderful the truth! the concientious Patriarch, the faithful Jew and the devout Christian, al of the same family, al subjects of the same kingdom, al heirs of the same promises.

To this purpos Christ adresed His folowers, when He had nearly accomplished the establishment of His Gospel in the world. That tha might se the equality of thair stations as it respected precedenc, and be garded against idolizing men, "Be ye not caled Rabbi:  for one is your Master, even Christ; and al ye are brethren."  And as we, the profesed folowers