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THE
EIËRISTIANnS
TREASURE.
IIIß
or,
3.
for
their
possession
and enjoyment
of
life
eter-
nal.
But
instead
of
collecting
all
the
treasures and
riches
of
the saints
under
these
three general
heads,
I
shall
cli-use
rather
to
make a
paraphrase
on the whole verse
of
.my
text, and
thus discover the
interest that
a christian
basin
the persons
and
things
of
earth
and heaven.
Whether
Paul, or
Apolios, or Cephas, or the world,
or
life,
or
death,
or things present,
or
things
to
come,
all are
yours."
;l.
The
ministers
of
the gospel
are
yours.
Is Pahl appointed
an
apostle separated to
the gospel
by
the
immediate
call
of
Christ
it
is
for
your
sakes,
O
ye
Corinthians,
that
he was
chosen
and
called
!
Christ
had
you in his
eye,
and
upon
his
heart,
when
he stopped
him in
the midst
of
his
fury'
and
persecution;
when he
overwhelmed him with glory,
in the road
to
Damascus;
and
from
a
persecutor
made an
apostle
of
"him,
and a
preacher
of
the cross
ofJesus
:
For
he designed
then to
send
him.
to
Corinth;
to
call you from
heathenism,
and
to save
your
souls.
Is
Paul
a
man
of
learning
and
of
bright
parts?
Is
he
endowed
with
profound
knowledge-
of
divine mysteries
above
his
brethren? Is he
fit to
preach
for the
couver-
sion
of
the
heathen world, and
to write
the
great
things
of
God
-for
the church,
in
all
future ages!
It
is for
your
sakes,
O
Christians,
that
he
is thus endowed
:
It
is
for
you, O
believers in
Great
Britain,
though
you live
as
it
were at
the ends
of
the earth,
andin
the
old
age of the
world
;
it is
even
for
you
that
he was
appointed
and in-
spired to
write
his
epistles to
Rome,,
Corinth,
-and
Ephe-
sus,
and the
rest
of
the early churches.
It.
is by his
writings,
that
you
have
been
enlightened
in the mysteries
of
Christ, and
the wonders of the
gospel.
Almost
seven-
teen
hundred
years..
ago
was
he made the
apostle.
of
the
;ensiles, and
that
partly for
your
sakes.
Paul-
himself
is
yours.
Was Apollos
an eloquent
man,
and
mighty
in
the
scrip
-
.tures?
It
was
for
you,
O
primitive
Christians,
that
he
had the gift
of
oratory bestowed
ma
him.
Has-any Ali-
nister
in
our
age and place
of
abode
a peculiar.
talent of
eloquence,
bath
he
a
vivacity
of
fancy;
.a
strength
of
ex-
pression, a
sweet accent,
,and a commanding
voice
?
It
r2,