1.I 02. Mode of the Apostles

Mode of the Apostles. The early preaching of the apostles was confined to a very narrow circle. They were Jews. They were preaching to Jews. The point to which every thing tended was, that Jesus Christ was to stand in the place of the old Mosaic law. Their arguments were scriptural and national. We have but little evidence that they preached in any such systematic manner as has grown up in Churches since their time. Already they found a system of morality, a system of public worship, and a general development of public truth. It was their business to concentrate all these elements around the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, in him to establish a new centre of in fluence, and from him to derive a living force such as could not proceed from the dry formulas of the law.