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directing the reader’s attention to these words in a former Tract, we endeavoured to set forth the dignity and power of the Lord Jesus Christ as king and law-giver in his Church,—the import of that Commission he gave his Apostles, — its extent, — the manner in which they executed it, — and what it was they taught the nations They were to and the, among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem, and to  such, and  as professed to  their testimony.

In comparing the two dispensations of Moses and Christ, — there is no point in which the contrast or difference is more obvious than in that which respects the number and nature of their peculiar ritual observances. The former, containing in itself "a shadow of good things to come," abounding with numerous ceremonial institutions, imposed upon the worshipers A