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That Will and Ability is given of God The Exalone: Therefore ye ought and have need hortation. to pray earnestly for his Holy Spirit.

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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 Ghoft:

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Thou art the very Comforter,
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And pray we that our Only Lord
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Almighty God and heavenly Father,----

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Confecrat. Almighty God, giver of all good things; of Bishops who, by thy Holy Spirit, haft appointed

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Moft merciful Father, we beseech thee to fend down upon this thy Servant thy heavenly Bleffing, and fo endue him with thy Holy Spirit, &c.

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The principal Paffages, which may feem to differ from the foregoing Doctrine, confidered.

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Lory be to the Father, and to the
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ftand This Doxology as an afcribing of glory aft out in in the fame Manner, in the fame Senfe, and up-y last Edit.

on 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 Ho. nour 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 Person, 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

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and died for our Sins, and rofe again for our Juftification: And to the Holy Ghost, as the Infpirer of all revealed Truth, and the Sanctifier of all Hearts, according to the Will of the Fa ther, by and through the Dispensation of the Son.

The more antient, and ufual Forms of Doxo logy in the Primitive Church, and in the Words of Scripture, [fee Part I, Ch. I, Sect. IV,] (by which All later Forms must always be explained,) were, Glory be to God, [or, to the Father; with, or by through the Mediation of] his Son Fefus Chrift our Lord; in [under the Guidance, and by the Affiftance of the Holy Ghost. v f]

And indeed it is moft agreeable to the natural Order of things, that in the fame Forms, wherein the generality of our moft folemn Prayers are put up, in the fame also fhould our Fraises or Doxologies be exprefs'd.

Αινον καὶ δόξαν τω παλεὶ oλwv, SIÙ TO SHOμATO πως ὅλων, διὰ τὸ ὀνόματα τα με καὶ τὸ πνέυματι dyís, avaiμe. Apol.

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Justin Martyr, defcribing the Practice of the Primitive Church, thus expreffes himself: The Prieft (fays he) Sends up Praife and Glory to the Father of the Univerfe, through the Name of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.

Again: And in all our Oferings, we blefs the Maker of all things, through his Son Jesus Chrift, and through his -Holy Spirit.

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Ἐπὶ πᾶσί τε οἷς προσφέ είμεθα, ευλογέμεν ἢ πο ητὴν * πάντων, διὰ τὸ du 'Inoxess, y dia Trévμarazís. Ibid.

Again: Next after God who is Before Ally we yield Honour in the fecond place to the Word which came forth from God, and in the third place to the Spirit."

And again: We worfhip and adore God him felf, and his Son which came forth from him, and the Prophetick Spirit; ho nouring [each of Them] according to Reason and Truth: Worshipping the Maker of the Universe, and honouring his Son in the fecond place, and the Spirit of Prophecy in the third place, according to Reafon.

And the learned Bp Bull: What need I add (faith he) that This Preeminence of the Father, [viz. his being God felf-exiftent, and the Original of all things,] is acknowledged in all the Liturgies of the Catholick Church even to this day? For both in our Doxologies we glorify God the Father in the first place, as Juftin fpeaks; and alfo we direct most of our Pray ers to him.

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Quid, quòd hæc Patriso in omnibus Catholicæ Ecclefiæ Liturgiis hodièque agnofcitur? Nam & in do-i oxious Deum Patrem ξολογίας Ten Taze (ut Juftinus loquitur) glorificamus; & preces plerafque ad ipfum dirigimus. Defens. Sect. 2, cap. 9, $15.

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