knowledge and conviction of sin, in order to be prepared for the appre- ciation and reception of the work of Christ. The church and the world were prepared by the legal dispensation of the Old Testament for the gracious dispensation of the New, v. 20.
9. We should open our hearts to the large prospects of purity and bless- edness presented in the gospel ; the victory of grace over sin and death, which is to be consummated in the triumph of true religion, and in the eternal salvation of those multitudes, out of every tribe and kindred, which no man can number, v. 21.