God chooses now to make up his visible church not as formerly, but of those who give credible evidence of regeneration.

They who worship with us, but do not profess to be Christians, are hopeful subjects of effort and prayer, whom we expect to receive hereafter to the visible church, on profession of their faith.
As the Christian church is constituted differently from the Jewish church, in this respect, discrimination and separation taking place between the members of a Christian congregation, have we not analogical reason to infer that it may also be thus with regard to children ?--who once, indeed, were members of the church of God, but, under the dispensation of the Spirit, they fall, with other unconverted members of the congregation, out of membership in the church.
_Mr.C._ And yet, Br.

R., the fall is not far, nor hurtful.

They are entitled to all the privileges, and they enjoy, or should enjoy, all the care and effort, which they would have under a different name.

Only they do not come to the Lord's Supper, as a matter of course, as they did to the Passover.
_Mr.S._ Suppose that the legislature should incorporate a fish-market, and cede to the proprietors fifteen square miles of the sea, within which they should have the privilege of taking fish.