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For this is as the Waters of Noah unto me: For as I have fworn that the Waters of Noah fhould no more go over the Earth; fo have I fworn that I would not be Wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

Oh thou afflicted, toffed with Tempeft, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy Stones with fair Colours, and lay thy Foundations with Sapphires.

And I will make thy Windows of Agates, and thy Gates of Carbuncles, and all thy Borders of pleafant Stones.

And all thy Children shall be taught of the LORD, and great shall be the Peace of thy Children.

In Righteousness halt thou be established: Thou shalt be far from Oppreffion, for thou shalt not fear; and from Terrour, for it shall not come near thee.

In fine, the Promife is, That the Meek, and they that fear the Lord, the Obedient and Humble, they that Pray earnestly, and Communicate often, having their Hearts purged from carnal Lufts, and filled with univerfal Charity, fhall purchase the Holy Ghost to be their Guide and Comforter, to abide with them for ever.

If our Hearts be calm and ftraight, cheerful and glad in the Lord, if we lean not to our own Will, and our own Wisdom; if we fuffer patiently for the Teftimony of a good Confcience, and a good Caufe; if we bridle our Tongues from filthy Language and corrupt Communication; if we frequent the Houfe of God, and affociate our felves with the Servants of God; if we abide in our lawful Calling, and rufh not into unneceffary Dangers; if we hearken to the Voice of God fpeaking to us in our Confciences, and in the Scriptures.

In the fpecial Paffages of Providence, and general Sentiments of Mankind in fad Trials and Difappointments, thefe are the moft proper Means, whereby we may obtain the Comforter to be our Guide, and likewife come to the Affurance thereof, which is a Comfort above all Comforts.

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Now what remains, but to guard against Sin, and against Folly, against all Intemperance and immoderate Paffions; against all Anxiety and worldly Mindedness, which may grieve the good Spirit of God, or quench his Gifts and Graces in us..

Let us welcome and treat this bleffed Spirit with all holy Reverence and tender Care, who will make his Abode with us, according to his Entertainment.

Behold Iftand at the Door and knock, if any Man hear my Voice, and open the Door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.

Lift up your Heads, O je Gates, even lift them up, ye everlasting Doors, and the King of Glory fhall come in.

The Air doth not more naturally yield to our Attraction in Refpiration, when it infinuates it felf into the Spaces of the Body that are receptive of it, than the Divine Spirit communicates his Aids and Confolation to the Defires and Wants of all holy, and humble Souls. Prope a te Deus eft, tecum eft, intus eft, (fays one more like a Chriftian than a moral Philofopher) ita dico, Lucili, facer intra nos fpiritus fedet, malorum, bonorumque noftrorum Obfervator, & Cuftos, hic prout a nobis tractat us eft, ita nos ipfe tractat, That we fhould feek the Lord, if happily we might feel after him, and find him, tho he be not far from every one of us, for in him we live, move, and have our Being: O my God, I am continually with thee; Thou shalt guide me with thy Counsel, and afterwards receive me to thy Glory.

Whom have I in the Heavens but thee? and there is none upon Earth that I defire befides thee: My Flesh and my Heart faileth, but God is the Strength of my Heart, and my Portion for ever. Amen.

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Moft holy and glorious Spirit, the Spirit of the Father, and the Spirit of the Son, who art with both one God, bleffed for ver: We Praise thy Majefty for all thy Graces and Confalations to thy People, especially for the plentiful Effufion of heavenly Gifts which thou poured down upon the Heads and Hearts of thy Apoftles, as this 2 Days when they were affembled together, and waited for thy powerful Manifeftation and Prefence. We beseech thee to foften our hard Hearts, to enlighten our dark Minds, and to quicken our Souls that are dead in Sins and Trefpaffes, inspire with Love and Life from above (as thou didst thefe dry Bones in the Prophet Ezekiel's Vision, that we may live the Life of God, and the Life of Grace : Sanctific our Natures, fubdue our rebellious Paffions and keep back thy Servants from prefumptuous Sins, that we never think or peak, or do any Thing which may grieve thy Holy Majefty, or quench at any Time these heavenly Sparks of Grace, which thou kindles in our Hearts; for thou wilt not alwife frive with us by inward Motions and other Means of Graces, if we continue alwife perverfe and following the Lufts of the Flesh, and refifting thy Light and Convictions.

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O God, the Father of all Mercies, and the Fountain of all Goodness, who lendeft forth thy Spirit, to put Life into the Dead, and to renew the Face of the Earth, create in us clean Hearts, and renew right Spirits within us; never leave us to our own weak Spirits, nor to the wicked Spirit of Satan, but as thou hast promised, not to deny thy felf, but to give thy good Spirit to them that ask him, faying, I will pour Water upon him that is thirsty, and Floods upon dry Ground, I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed, and my Blefing upon thy Off-fpring; guide us continually with thy Holy Spirit, and let us feel thy powerful Prefence in our Hearts, as a Well of Water Springing up into everlasting Life.

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As the Hart panteth after the Water Brooks, fo panteth our Souls after thee, O God; our Souls pant after thee, the living God: For with thee is the Fountain of Life, and in thy Light we fball fee Light. W

Ofend out thy Light and thy Truth, let them lead us, and bring us into thy Holy Hill, and to thy Holy Tabernacles, even to thy felf, O God, our exceeding Joy..

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O Lord Jefus Chrift, our Advocate and most merciful High Priest with the Father, thou hast promised thou wilt not leave them comfortless, who love thee, and keep thy Commandments, but thou will pray unto thy Father, that he would give unto them the Comforter; therefore it was expedient that thou shouldst go away from us, in Refpect of thy bodily Prefence, and afcend up into that thou might ft fend the Comforter unto us, to teach us all Things, eaven, and to reveal unto us all Traths that are neceffary for our Salvation.

We beseech thy Majefty, to perform that gracious Promife unto us, and prepare our Hearts with holy Difpofitions, and fervent Defires for that bleffed Guest, that in all our Doubts and Difficulties, in all our Solitudes and Sufferings he may be our continual Guide and Comforter, a Sanctuary to defend us from the Temptations of the Devil, and a very prefent Help in Trouble.

O Lord, infpire thy Holy Catholick Church, and every Chriftian with the Spirit of Love, and the Spirit of Truth; that they may walk in the Unity of the Spirit, and bring forth the Fruits of the Spirit, even Love, Joy, and Peace; Long-fuffering, Patience, Gentleness, Meeknefs and Temperance, to the Glory of God, to whom be everlasting Praife. Amen. Our Father, &c.

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