On Prince Edward Island and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, made an end of sin, and brought in ever¬ lasting righteousness, so that God says "their sins and iniquities will I remember no more for ever." Thus, then, Christ hath by one offering perfected forever them who are sanctified. When Christ was about to suffer he declared that his kingdom was not henceforth of this world, and by drawing an inference from the word henceforth we understand him as intimating that his kingdom was until then of this world—we also understand him as meaning the Mosaic dispensation kingdom, as his kingdom that was of this world; and the king¬ dom that was not of this world to signify the gospel dispensation kingdom—the spiritual kingdom of grace. He ruled and reigned during the contin¬ uance of the Mosaic dispensation by laws and ordi¬ nances of divine framing and institution, by the min¬ istry of priests and Levites, and such other officers, judges and kings as the exigencies of the kingdom did require, according to the requisitions of the Mo¬ saic law, which was given by the ministration of angels in the hand of a Mediator; but that kingdom with its typical ritual and Mosaic observances was drawing to a close—it was decayed and waxen old, and was ready to vanish away, to make room for a better and everlasting kingdom which shall not fade or decay, or vanish away for ever. The glory of the first was passing away, that the glory of the second might be made to appear. "But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glori- 223