Wesley Corpus

Stephen’s Day.) “Send thy Holy Ghost, and pour into our hearts that most excellent gift of charity.” (Quinquagesima Sunday.) “O. Lord, from whom all good things do come, grant to us, thy humble servants, that by thy holy inspiration we may think those things that are good, and by thy merciful guidance may perform the same.” (Fifth Sunday after Easter.) “We beseech thee, leave us not comfortless, but send us the Holy Ghost to comfort us.” (Sunday after Ascension Day.) “Grant us by the same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things, and evermore to rejoice in his holy comfort.” (Whit-Sunday.) (N.B. The Church here teaches all Christians to claim the Comforter, in virtue of the promise made, John xiv.) “Grant us, Lord, we beseech thee, the Spirit, to think and do always such things as be rightful.” (Ninth Sunday after Trinity.) “O God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee; mercifully grant that thy Holy Spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts.” (Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity.) “Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Ol' R EASON AND RELIGION. 103 Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy holy name.” (Communion Office.) “Give thy Holy Spirit to this infant, (or this person,) that he may be born again.-Give thy Holy Spirit to these persons,” (N.B. already baptized,) “that they may continue thy servants. “Almighty God, who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these persons by water and the Holy Ghost; strengthen them with the Holy Ghost the Comforter, and daily increase in them the manifold gifts of thy grace.” (Office of Confirmation.) From these passages it may sufficiently appear, for what purposes every Christian, according to the doctrine of the Church of England, does now “receive the IIoly Ghost.” But this will be still more clear from those that follow ; wherein the reader may likewise observe a plain, rational sense of God’s revealing himself to us, of the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, and of a believer's feeling in himself “the mighty working” of the Spirit of Christ:-- 25. “God gave them of old grace to be his children, as he doth us now.