History of Presbyterianism kingdom, he opened up the glorious dispensation of the gospel kingdom, by the pouring out of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, when a glorious flood of light poured in upon them, by which their under¬ standings were enlightened to understand the scrip¬ tures, which are able to make one wise unto salva¬ tion, which is in Jesus Christ. They now found out that the Sun of Righteousness was risen with heal¬ ing in his wings, and they spake with tongues the marvellous works of God—they found that they had now entered into a new kingdom—a kingdom of spiritual realities—and now they experienced a sud¬ den, I may say an instantaneous, transition, out of one dispensation into another—from the typical head Abraham, and from the typical nature and character of the covenant as applied to the natural seed, to the real head—"Who is the head over all things to the Church, which is his body, the fullness of him who is all in all," according to the promise of God in the covenant with Abraham. "Now to Abraham and to his seed were the promises made, He saith not, and to seeds, as of many, but as of one; and to thy seed which is Christ.''—Gal. iii: i 6. And therefore all true believers receive Jesus Christ as the alone cove¬ nant head, and enter joyfully with him into his gos¬ pel kingdom, and spiritual reign. They can now look back on all typical covenants and legal institu¬ tions and rites and ceremonies as things that were; for they find to their joy and happiness that they are no longer under the law, but Under grace—old things are passed away, and all things are become 226