of this gift appears in the diversity of offices into which it is distributed (“apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers”); in the important ends for which it was ordained (the advantage of the Church, till it be completed, as one body, under one head); in the rich supply of spiritual blessings both in the deliverance from various threatened evils, and in the closer union and mutual edification of the whole body “growing up into their glorious Head.” We cannot well conceive a more entire