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they might be saved by the gospel of Christ ; because, although they 

 had a zeal of God, it was not according to knowledge: and then 

 in the true catholic spirit of that gospel he was so peculiarly 

 selected to preach to the Gentiles, he declares that whosoever 

 shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. This is fol- 

 lowed by those questions on which we must now lay the great 

 stress of this argument: " How shall they call on him in whom 

 they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of 

 whom they have not heard ? How shall they hear without a 

 preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent? as it 

 is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gos- 

 pel of peace!" 



St. Paul, the learned disciple of Gamaliel, was the apostle 

 chosen to spread those divine truths among the heathen, and was, 

 by high authority, ordained to be the preacher to the gentiles. In 

 obedience to the heavenly mandate, he travelled among the Greeks 

 and Romans, and won over, by the consoling truths of the gospel, 

 thousands of all denominations, from the imperial palace of Nero, 

 to Lydia of Thyatira, and the jailor at Philippi. At Athens, then 

 the most refined and elegant city in the world, the Stoic and Epi- 

 curean philosophers brought him unto the Areopagus; where, pub- 

 licly condemning their ignorance and superstition, he says, on 

 beholding their devotions, he had found an altar erected to the 

 unknown God! " Him therefore, whom they ignorantly 

 worshipped, he preached unto them; the God who made the 

 world, and all things therein ; who is Lord of heaven and 

 earth, and dwelleth not in temples made with hands, neither is 

 worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing; 



