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blessed will to the Grentiles, and inspired them also with 

 a power to speak all languages, and by their powerful 

 eloquence to beget faith in the unbelieving Jews ; them- 

 selves to suffer for the Saviour whom their countrymen 

 had crucifiedj and in their sufferings to preach freedom 

 from the encumbrances of the law, and a new way to 

 everlasting life. This was the employment of those 

 happy fishermen whom he chose from their irreproach- 

 able employment, and gave them grace to be his disci- 

 ples, and do wonders ; — I say, four of twelve, and it is 

 obseirable that it was our Saviour's will that these four 

 fishermen should have a priority of nomination in the 

 catalogue of his twelve Apostles, as Peter, Andrew, 

 James, and John ; and then the rest in order. And it 

 is yet more observable, that when our blessed Saviour 

 went up into the mountain and left the rest of his dis- 

 ciples, and chose only three to bear him company at his 

 transfiguration, that ' these three were all fishermen.' ' 



