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subject on which I propose, with the Lords help, to enter to-night, is the one body, the body of Christ; and this, too, not only as a great doctrine which the Holy Ghost has laid down with the utmost clearness, and throughout a considerable part of the New Testament, but also, as far as I am able in a short space, deducing some of its practical consequences, and showing its bearing upon the communion and the conduct of every member of it, that is, of every Christian.

Now, in order to develop the special characteristics of Christ’s body, it will be necessary to explain how it differed from that which God revealed, or set up, in past dispensations; for there are distinctions, and even contrasts, between the past dealings of God and that which He is now accomplishing to the honour of His beloved Son. While there was, of