DISCOURSE I. THE DIVINITY, SUFFICIENCY, AND PERPETUITY OF THE CHRISTIAN ELIGION. JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID UNTO HER, WHOSOEVER DRINKETH OF THIS WATER SHALL THIRST AGAIN: BUT WHOSOEVER DRINKETH OF THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM SHALL NEVER THIRST; BUT THE WATER THAT I SHALL GIVE HIM SHALL BE IN HIM A WELL OF WATER SPRINGING UP INTO EVERLASTING LIFE.- - John iv. 13, 14. WHEN art, science, literature, or government is revolutionized, religion always feels the shock. For, entering as a component part into the structure of society, when other members suffer, it suffers with them; and when other members are honored, it rejoices with them. Thus the conversion of Constantine, the Roman Emperor, in the fourth century, which led to the adoption of Christianity as the national religion instead of Polytheism, entirely changed the existing form and operation of the Gospel. gained, Christianity seemed to lose. but a species of Jove of the Capitol. The sacred ordinances were drowned in heathenish rites. The What Rome Jesus became |