way of honour given unto Christ himself, (God’s first and great apostle sent out by him, John 20:21,) ‘The high priest and apostle of our profession, Jesus,’ &c., Heb. 3:1. Obs.—No sins before, and I may add to it, nor yet after conversion, can hinder God’s free grace from using men in the highest employments in the Church, but magnify it the more. David, after his adultery, was a penman of Scripture, Psalm 51; Solomon, after his fall, of Ecclesiastes; Peter, after his conversion, denied Christ with
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