1. Christianity is, from its nature, adapted to be a universal religion There is nothing, as was the case with Judaism, which binds it to a par- ticular location or confines it to a particular people. All its duties may be performed, and all its blessings enjoyed, in every part of the world, and by every nation under heaven, vs. 11 — 13.
2. The relation of men to God, and his to them, is not determined by any national or ecclesiastical connexion. He deals with all, on the same general principles, and is ready to save all who call upon him, v. 12.
3. Whosoever will, may take of the water of life. The essential conditions of salvation have in every age been the same. Even under the Old Testament dispensation, God accepted all who sincerely invoked his name, v. 13.
4. The preaching of the gospel is the great means of salvation, and it is the will of God that it should be extended to all people, vs. 14, 15.
5. As invocation implies faith, and faith requires knowledge, and knowledge instruction, and instruction teachers, and teachers a mission, it is evident not only that God wills that teachers should be sent to all those whom he is willing to save, when they call upon him, but that all parts of this divinely connected chain of causes and eflfects are necessary to the end proposed, viz. the salvation of men. It is, therefore, as incumbent on those who have the power, to send the gospel abroad, as it is on those to whom it is sent, to receive it, vs. 14, 15.
6. As the rudiments of the tree are in the seed, so all the elements of the New Testament doctrines are in the Old. The Christian dispensa- tion is the explanation, fulfilment, and development of the Jewish, vs. 11, 13, 15.