17. Almighty God, Cleanse the In the Thoughts of our Hearts by the Inspiration in Ser of thy Holy Spirit. 18. Commu vice, Coll. Ilt. According to whose most true Promife, Proper the Holy Ghoft came down &c. 19. Pref. for day. ter Con Thou only, O Chrift, with the Holy Hymn afGhoft, art most high in the Glory of God fecration. the Father. 20. fice of I beseech you to call upon God the Fa- In the Of ther, through our Lord Jesus brit Baptifin, that of his bounteous mercy He will grant The Exto this Child, that he may be bap- hortation. tized with Water and the Holy Ghost. ly Father; Give thy Holy Spirit to Prayer this Infant, &c. grant after the things belonging to the Spirit, may live Exhorta- and grow tion. in him. 24. After the We yield Thee hearty thanks, most Baptifm. merciful Father, that it hath pleafed Thee to regenerate this Infant with thy Holy Spirit. Baptifm 25. Doubt ye not therefore, but earnestly of riper believe, that he will years, The Ex- them the Holy Ghost. hortation after the Gofpel. 26. bestow upon Almighty and everliving God, who hast Confir- vouchfafed to regenerate these thy Servants by Water and the Holy Ghost: mation. ftrengthen them, we befeech Thee, O Lord, with the Holy Ghoft, the Comforter. let thy Holy Spirit ever be with them. In the Vifitat. of O most merciful God, ftrengthen the sick, him with thy blessed Spirit. O Father of mercies, and God of all Comfort, 31. The Co! lect after the Abfolution. The Prayer, when there is fmall hope. be ordered by the governance Commi of his Holy Spirit. nation. 32. hortation. That Will and Ability is given of God The Exalone: Therefore ye ought and have need to pray earnestly for his Holy Spirit. 34. And that you will continually pray to God the Father, by the Mediation of our only Saviour Jefus Chrift, for the heavenly affiftance of the Holy Ghot: 35. Thou TheHymn. The Prayer 35. ; Thou art the very Comforter, 36 And pray we that our Only Lord 37. Almighty God and heavenly Father, ---- after the we humbly befeech Thee, Hymn. may daily increase rit. that we by the Holy Spi 38. Confecrat. Almighty God, giver of all good things; of Bishops. who, by thy Holy Spirit, haft appointed &c. 39. Most merciful Father, we beseech thee to fend down upon this thy Servant thy heavenly Bleffing, and fo endue him with thy Holy Spirit, &c. СНАР. CHAP. II. The principal Paffages, which may feem to differ from the foregoing Doctrine, confidered. G Lory be to the Father, and to the 'Tis not reconcilable to the Doctrine of Scripture, (Part 1; nor to the fore-cited Expreffions in the Liturgy, ( Part III, Ch. I;) to underftand This Doxology as an afcribing of glory in the fame Manner, in the fame Senfe, and upon the fame Accounts, either to Three co-ordinate Perfons, (which is a Plurality of Gods ;) or to One and the fame Perfon under Three Denominations, (which is confounding or deftroying the Perfons, with Sabellius and Socinus:) But it ought to be understood, as an Acknowledgment of the Honour due to Each Perfon diftinctly, upon Account of their respective Characters, Powers and Offices: To the Father, as the original Author and Supreme Lord of all: To the Son, as That divine Perfon, who when he was in the Form of God, and had glory with God before the World was, yet, according to the good pleasure of the Father, willingly emptied himself of that glory, and took upon him the Form of a Servant. and was made in the likeness of Man, and fuffered and The Doxology |