This Spirit also qualifies men for the ministry.  It qualifies women also for this office as well as men.  It dictates the true season for silence, and the true season for utterance, both in public and private worship.

Jesus Christ was man because he took flesh, and inhabited the body which had been prepared for him; but he was Divinity, because he was the Word.

A resurrection will be effected, but not of the body as it is.  Rewards and punishments will follow, but guilt will not be imputed to men till they have actually committed sin.

Baptism and the Lord’s Supper are essentials of the Christian religion.  They are not, however, essentials as outward ordinances, but only as they are administered by the Holy Spirit.

Civil government is for the protection of virtue and for the removal of vice.  Obedience should be paid to all its laws, where the conscience is not violated in doing it.  To defraud it in any manner of its revenues, or to take up arms on any consideration against it, is unlawful.  But if men cannot conscientiously submit to any one or more of its ordinances, they are not to temporize, but to obey Jesus Christ rather than their own governors in this particular case.  They are, however, to be willing to submit to all the penalties which the latter may inflict upon them for so doing.  And as no Christian ought to temporize in the case of any laws enjoined him by the government under which he lives, so neither ought he to do it in the case of any of the customs or fashions, which may be enjoined him by the world.

All civil oaths are forbidden in Christianity.  The word of every Christian should be equivalent to his oath.

It is not lawful to return evil for evil, nor to shed the blood of man.  All wars are forbidden.

It is more honourable, and more consistent with the genius and spirit of Christianity, and the practice of Jesus Christ and of his Apostles, and of the primitive Christians, that men should preach the Gospel freely, than that they should live by it, as by a profession or by a trade.

All men are brethren by creation.  Christianity makes no difference in this respect between Jew and Gentile, Greek and Barbarian, bond and free.  No geographical boundaries, nor colour of the skin or person, nor difference of religious sentiment, can dissolve this relationship between them.

All men are born equal with respect to privileges.  But as they fall into different situations and ranks of life, they become distinguished.  In Christianity, however, there is no respect of persons, or no distinction of them, but by their virtue.  Nobility and riches can never confer worth, nor can poverty screen from a just appropriation of disgrace.

Man is a temple in which the Divinity may reside.  He is therefore to be looked upon and treated with due respect.  No Christian ought to lower his dignity, or to suffer him, if he can help it, to become the instrument of his own degradation.