"and for ever, Amen." Prayer at Confirmation. "Defend, O Lord, this thy Child, with thy "heavenly Grace, that he may continue thine for 66 ever; and daily increase in thy Holy Spirit more and more.' At laying on of Hands. "Let thy Holy Spirit ever be with them, and "fo lead them in the Knowledge and Obedience "of thy Word, that in the End they may obtain "everlasting Life." The last Cil. but one in Confirmation. Strengthen him with thy Bleed Spirit; "Look grcioufly upon him, O Lord, and the "more the outward Man decayeth, ftrengthen "him, we beseech thee, fo much the more continually with thy Grace, and Holy Spirit, in the "inner Man." Vifitation of the Sick. "Come Holy Ghost, our Souls infpire, "And lighten with Celeftial Fire. ALSO, "Come Holy Ghost, eternal GOD, "Both from the Father, and the Son, "Vifit our Minds, and into us, "Thy heav'nly Grace infpire; "That in all Truth, and Godliness, "We may have true Defire. III. "Thou art the very Comforter, "In all Woe, and Diftrefs; "The heav'nly Gift of GOD moft high, "Which no Tongue can expreís.. IV. IV. "The Fountain, and the living Spring, "Of Joy Celestial: "The Fire fo bright, the Love fo clear, "The Unction fpiritual. V. "Thou in thy Gifts art manifold, "By them Chrift's Church doth ftand; "In faithful Hearts thou writ'ft thy Law, "The Finger of GOD's Hand. VI. According to thy Promife, Lord, "Thou giveft Speech, with Grace ; "That thro' thy Help, GOD's Promife may, "Kefound in every Place. VII. "O Holy Ghoft, into our Minds, "Our Weakness ftrengthen, and confirm, ix. "Put back our Enemies from us, "And help us to obtain "Peace in our Heart, with God and Man, "The beft, the trueft Gain. "And grant that thou, being O Lord, "And never from thee flide. XI. XI. "Such Measures of thy pow'rful Grace, XII. Of Strife, and of Diffention, "Grant us the Grace, that we may know, May gain the blissful Sight. "And that we may, with perfect Faith, XV. "To GOD the Father, Laud and Praise, "And to his bleffed Son: "And to the Holy Spir't of Grace "Co-equal Three in One. XVI. "And pray we that our only Lord, "We humbly befeech thee, that we daily in"creafe, and go forward in the Knowledge and "Faith of thee, and thy Son, by the Holy Spirit. Ordering of Priefts. "Moft merciful Father, we befeech thee to "fend down upon this thy Servant, thy heavenly "Bleffing, "Bleffing, and endue him with thy Holy Spirit." Ordering of Bishops. In like Manner alfo the Church receives none as her lawful Minifters, but thofe who can anfwer to this awful Question, "Do you trust that you are inwardly moved by the Holy Gheft, to "take upon you this Office?" Ordering of Deacons. In the Exhortation of the Ordering of Pricfts, the Bishop faith, "Therefore ye ought, and have "need to pray earneftly for his Holy Spirit. And again," We have good Hope, that you will continually pray to GOD the Father, by the Me"diation of our only Saviour Jefus Chrift, for the heavenly Affiftance of the Holy Ghost." And at the laying on of Hands, he faith, Receive the Holy Ghost. ; To all I have yet faid, I add a little more wherein the Church confeffeth, that every one void of the Spirit of God, will either perish by Defpair, or by Prefumption. "As the godly . "Confideration of our Election in Chrift, is full "of sweet, pleafant, and unfpeakable Comfort to godly Perlons, and fuch as feel in themfelves "the Working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying "the Works of the Flefh, and their earthly "Members, and drawing up their Minds to high "and heavenly Things, &c. So for curious and "carnal Perfons lacking the Spirit of Chrift, to "have continually before thei Eyes the Sentence "of GD's Predeftination, is a moft dangerous. "Downfall; wherein the Devil doth thruft them "either into Defperation, or into Wretchleisnefs"of moft unclean Living, no les perilous than "Defpair, or Defperation." Article 17. Here we may ice the very Words used, that fo many have cavil'd with, that is, fccl in them felves felves the Working of GOD's Spirit. Men want to be accounted Chriftians, because an Infidel's Name feems to be odious, even in the Ears of the common People; and it is this, namely, because they would not be counted Unbelievers; s; that makes them go about to prove themfelves Chriftians, and Believers, without receiving the Holy Ghoft. Alas! in vain do they ftrive to do this. If they be of the Church, I have fhewn them her Doctrine; to wit, Works done before the Grace of Christ, and the Infpiration of his Spirit, are not pleasant to God. Article the 13th. She fpeaketh alfo the fame in the 17th Article, which I have juft now mentioned. If they be any other Sorts of Proteftants, I have anfwered them from the Doctrines of the Fathers, and Martyrs, who watered (as it were) and fealed thefe Truths with their Blood. That I may anfwer all who confefs, or will hear the everlasting Gofpel, I yet fet dowr. a few Paffages out of the Prophets, and Apoftles, and fay as our Saviour alfo faid, If they will not hear them, neither will they believe though one rofe from the Dead, Luke xvi. Thus faith the Lord by Ifaiah, Wo to them that cover with a Covering, but not of my Spirit, Ifaiah xxx. I. So St. John faith, He that bath the Son, hath Life; and be that hath not the Son of God, hath not Life, 1 John v. 12. So alfo faith our Saviour, Except a Man be born of Water, and the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God, John iii. 5. And St. Paul faith, Jefus Chrift is in you, except ye be Reprobates, 2 Cor. xiii. 5. And again, Now if any Man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his, Rom. viii. 9. I very well know that to all who have not the Spirit of Chrift, I am like one defcribing Light to |