gained by prayer, or by diligence in service, or by church-going, or by alms-giving, or self-denial, or holiness of life, or by any other description of good works. All is the gift of God, through Christ, to faith, and therefore belongs equally to all believers. The very instant that the brutal jailer of Philippi believed on the Lord Jesus Christ he became a son of God, a joint heir with Christ, a king and priest, and the owner of an incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading inheritance. In the instant