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 , being aliens from the common wealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having in the world." Eph. ii. 12.

"This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind; having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who, being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedi-dinessgreediness [sic].—For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret." Eph. iv. 17-19; v. 12.

"Not in the lust of concupiscence, even ." 1 Thess. iv. 5.

What an exact description have we here of many of the Heathen nations of the present day, except it be that, if possible, some of them exceed in ignorance those referred to by the Apostle!

EXTRACT V.

Christ the Saviour of all who believe.