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security, pride, and self^righteoufiness; to open the flood- gates of the selfish i-oul for receiving the common light, common love» and coniTnon joy of the Holy Spirit; to create and continue a church or com* nmnion of &aints upon the earth, of which Christ is tlu7 only head; lo offer \tH pmyent, praises, and spiritual sacrifices in the presence of God; and in the end to raise up from the dead, and (glorify for ever in the ^ipht of all the QnWcTBC, the faithful subjects of hi^ mediatorial kin^oni. Which manitold offices of the second Person of the Divine Trinity for the redemption and sahntion of Mnful men, wcj-e realized as facts, by ihe incama- liun, brought into the visible fur a short season, and agnin carried into the invisible* that we might know the afFcctiona towards man which are fclt by him who sittcth at the right h^nd of God. and to whom all power in heaven and cnrth is given ol bis Father, Which power he now executeth for his faithful church by the Holy Spirit, and shall tnunifcst when be shall come again in majesty and glory. The incarnatioa is not the sacrifice of Christ which was from eternity offered up: it is- not the power and glory of Christ which is yet to come, neither is it the dispensation of the Holy Spirit, which could not be till he bad passed within the veil; but it is that wliicb rcaltseth nil these. p Vir] IHKLAKD'tf BVIL CONUlTIOBT. 1219 ami mukeili them ^entji in tlie world'^knowledge and experience. This t» its exact value and uo more. But to man in his falten stale, how vain* able is thi», forasmuch a« every thing must have remained a inyatcrv without this manifestation. fiovr, obserre how the Cathohca make void this great doctrine m all Us poinls. First, by the doc- trine of the real bodily {ire^ence \n the Euchamt, they perpetuate the iQcamatioQ, by presenting to the people a vbible Saviour every time they perform mass, and by pretending to otTcr him up for their nins. We Prate«itantfi, indeed, bungle thirt matter of the uicraments sadly ; and were it, not for the writings of a former age, I think we should, by our eternal di^ourtes of the Lord in flesh, as if that were the alt and in aU of Divine lore, instead of being but the revelatioa of the all in all. be in great danger of sensualizing und tcmpori»ing the faith in which we arc planted : but the Catliulics du thin with a witnesa, by pre- senting, whenever the priest pleascth, the \ery body of Chrifitt keeping their diseiplee in that twilight of the Spirit, in which the apostle* were, while yet the Man-C