Wesley Corpus

It now rests with your Lordship to take your choice; either to condemn or to acquit both. Either your Lordship must con demn Bishop Pearson for an enthusiast; (a man no ways inferior to Bishop Chrysostom;) or you must acquit me: for I have hisexpress authority on my side, concerning every text which I affirm to belong to all Christians. 24. But I have greater authority than his, and such as I rever ence only less than that of the oracles of God; I mean, that of our own Church. I shall close this head by setting down what occurs in her authentic records, concerning either our “receiving the Holy Ghost,” or his ordinary operations in all true Christians. In her Daily Service she teaches us all to beseech God “to grant us his Holy Spirit, that those things may please him which we do at this present, and that the rest of our life may be pure and holy;” to pray for our Sovereign Lord the King, that God would “replenish him with the grace of his Holy Spirit;” for all the Royal Family, that they may be “endued with his Holy Spirit, and enriched with his heavenly grace;” for all the Clergy and people, that he would “send down upon them the healthful Spirit of his grace;” for “the Catholic Church, that it may be guided and governed by his good Spirit;” and for all therein who at any time “make their com mon supplication unto him,” that “the fellowship” or communi cation “of the Holy Ghost may be with them all evermore.” Her Collects are full of petitions to the same effect: “Grant that we may daily be renewed by thy Holy Spirit.” (Collect for Christmas-Day.) “Grant that in all our sufferings here, for the testimony of thy truth, we may by faith behold the glory that shall be revealed, and, “being filled with the Holy Ghost,” may love and bless our persecutors.” (St. Stephen’s Day.) “Send thy Holy Ghost, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity.” (Quinquagesima Sunday.) “O.