IN CHURCH HISTORY. 21 



blessings, He organized a society, a Church, which 

 is spoken of as the Kingdom of God on earth. 

 For this Church He instituted two Sacraments : 

 Baptism, and The Supper of the Lord. The first 

 was to be the mode of admission to this organiza- 

 tion, the second to be the mode of commemorating 

 His redemptive work, and for the supply of spir- 

 itual grace. 



The mode of government of the Church, and 

 many of its other features, we infer He commu- 

 nicated to His apostles, and particularly in the 

 period after His resurrection, from the fact that 

 immediately upon the development of the Church 

 after Pentecost, it possessed certain characteristics 

 to be more fully described hereafter. 



