On Prince Edward Island glorify God for his mercy, as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles. And again he saith, Rejoice ye Gentiles with his people." Rom. xv: 8, 9, 10. Infant baptism now assumes the place of infant circumcision, as a representative sign and seal that the Abrahamic covenant may still be viewed in its interminable permanency during the gospel dispensation, as it was during the Mosaic dis¬ pensation to its close; but the Abrahamic sign and seal was by the shedding of blood until Jesus shed his own blood, which was merely prefigured by all the blood, both in circumcision and in sacrifices, which was shed since the first victim was immolated; for he is the Lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world, that is, typically slain, as represented always, in all the sacrifices which were offered ac¬ cording to the divine direction; but I showed above that the gospel dispensation is the ministration of the Spirit and of righteousness, and not the ministration of death and condemnation, as was the Mosaic dis¬ pensation until Christ abolished the death of all vic¬ tims, by his own death, and made an end of iniquity, transgression and sin, and brought in everlasting righteousness. The gospel dispensation being of a spiritual character, as the kingdom of Jesus Christ which is not of this world—the ministration of the Spirit and of righteousness, by which the nature of the dispensation is changed, and therefore the mode of the administration of sign and seal, of necessity, had, in conformity to the spiritual change, to be changed; and as water is a scriptural emblem of the 241