I will now, give you a short description of this Church of Christ; attend, and I will tell you, in as few words as I can, what this Church always _was_, and really _is_. Catholicity, or Christ's Church, began with our Saviour, received her mission, her powers, and her doctrine, from Jesus Christ. She has been distinguished in every age, for the unity of her faith, and the sanctity of her doctrine, for the universality of her extent, and the apostolicity of her origin. No _earthly_ consideration, could ever induce her, to swerve _one iota_ from the sacred deposit, and unity of faith, delivered to her by Jesus Christ. Hence, whenever she found any in her communion, either layman, priest, or bishop, or _even a whole nation_, wishing to _change_, or _add to_, or diminish _one tittle_ of the _faith_, delivered by her heavenly founder, she _at first_, like a tender mother, expostulated with them, appealed to the grounds and truth of her faith, and traced it to the mouth, either of our Saviour or His Apostles; but if they disregarded her tender expostulations, she then, as St. Paul did the incestuous Corinthian, cut them off from her communion, and showed them, when _her faith_ was at stake, she feared neither the _frowns_ of individuals, nor the _strength_ of nations. Every article of her faith is so holy in itself, and so conducive to true holiness, that she challenges her greatest adversaries, to show the _smallest stain_ in any part of what she _really_ teaches, and the most convincing proof of their being _unable_ to do so, is, that not daring to attack her _true_ doctrine, they, by calumny and misrepresentation, lay things to her charge which she even _detests_ and _condemns_.[J] And then, after combating a _phantom_ of their _own_ creation, exult in an easy and decisive victory. From the dawn of Christianity to the present day, there has not been a nation converted to Christianity, but what was converted by her zealous exertions, nor is there a religion under the sun except hers, that can prove that any of her members, were ever honoured on account of their virtues, and sanctity, with the name of saint. She can look back through eighteen centuries, and shew that the unity and sanctity of her doctrine, are the _very same_ in the _nineteenth_ century, as they were in the _first_ century. She can trace a long succession of popes, even to the first pope, who was St. Peter. She can present you a long catalogue of learned and polite nations, of scholars, philosophers, and divines, of generals, statesmen, and princes, of saints, martyrs, and confessors, who looked upon her faith as their best inheritance, a treasure which they held more dear than life itself. In short, she can prove, that she is _now_ that Church, which _our Saviour first_ founded on a rock, against which, He promised, that the gates of hell should never prevail, and that He, and His Holy Spirit, should remain with it, teaching it all truth, _until the end of the world_.