Mace(i)
8 upon me, who am the meanest of all christians, is this favour bestowed, that I should proclaim to the Gentiles the undiscoverable advantages by Christ;
9 and display to all the world that mysterious dispensation, which from all past ages has been conceal'd in the secret purpose of God, who created all things:
10 that the manifold wisdom of God, in ordering his heavenly kingdom, might by his church be now made known, to princes and magistrates,