now revealed by the holy apostles and prophets, that the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body. But after any of the Lord's purposes have been clearly revealed, no plans of expediency, no hopes of usefulness, no designs of promoting the Lord's glory, however specious or well intended, can in any manner, or in any degree, justify opposition to those purposes, by substituting our own devices. In the Jewish church, every disregard to the Lord's appointment, and disrepect to his ordinances, was visited by signal judgment, as we see in the case of Miriam; of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram; and of Uzzah. And surely, the sin cannot be less in the Christian church, although the Lord's displeasure is not in this dispensation shown in the same visible manner. Rather is the responsibility increased manifold, since the coming of Christ, and his assumption of his prophetical and priestly offices. For now, the ordained ministers of his church are his representatives; and, deriving their authority immediately from him, are so to be considered. "He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me.” To refuse to receive baptism from them, and to substitute what seems to human reason to do as well, is to imitate the unbelief of Naaman, rather than the faith of the eunuch; and to lead into sin those who (tempted by an apparent urgency of case) rush uncalled into holy offices, and touch the ark with unhallowed hands. Much confusion may arise, from not clearly seeing the difference between national distinction and peculiarity, and the nature of spiritual privileges. The Lord has promised, that Israel shall never cease from being a nation before him for ever. They were distinct, when the Lord God dwelt among them-they are so, in their present dispersed and outcast state--and they shall still be so, when, gathered from all countries, they shall be restored to the land given to their fathers; and the Lord shall be their God, and they his people. But the church of Christ shall, by his own blood, be redeemed to God, out of EVERY kindred, and tongue, and people, and NATION; and believing Israelites should feel it a privilege to join that form of it, which may be established in the country where, during their dispersion, they may happen to dwell. To neglect present duties, or to despise present privileges, in consequence of looking forward to some that are future, and which the present generation may not live to enjoy, is to run before the Providence of God, and prescribe to Him, who is infinite in wisdom, and who will perform all his pleasure, not urged by man's impetuosity—not impeded by man's unbelief. The Christian church having been first established at Jerusalem, that was considered as the mother church, and appeal was made to it when necessary; but after the church was driven from Jerusalem by the destruction of the city, no church which existed had any supremacy over the rest. Each church, (that is, the church in each place where it was set up,) having been founded either by the apostles, or on apostolical authority, had its government within itself; and where the ruling powers believed in Christ, the Christian religion became the established religion of the country. To deny that the holy Catholic church exists, wherever there are apostolic churches founded, is to fall into the error of the Romanists, who claim a supremacy for their church; which claim of supremacy, among other evidences, proves it to be an apostasy. To set up a Hebrew church, with self-constituted, or lay-constituted ministers, is the schism most of all to be deplored. 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