fhall have Gladnefs and Exultation; a many fhall rejoyce at his Birth: for fhall be great in the Sight of our Lor and fhall drink neither. Wine nor ftro Drink, and fhall be filled with the Ho Ghoft,even from his Mother's Womb; a fhall convert many of the Children of rael to the Lord their God. And fhall go before him in the Spirit and Po er of Elias, to turn the Hearts of the F ther to the Children, and the Incredulo to the Wisdom of the Juft; to prepare the Lord a perfect People.

Refp: Thus does our gracious Lord fend fo his Angels, as Miniftring Spirits for Good of his Elect: Their Charity conv our Prayers up to him, and brings Bleffings down to us. * In all our W they bear us in their Hands, left at a Time we dafh our Foot against a Sion When we labour they fift us, when repofe they Protect us, when we are tem ted they Encourage us, when we conq they Crown us. * In all

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Angel anfwering faid to him, I am Gabriel that affift before God; and am fent to fpeak to thee, and fhew thee these glad Tidings: And behold thou fhalt be Dumb, and not able to fpeak, till the Day that thefe Things be performed: Because thou haft not believed my Words which fhall be fulfilled in their Seafon. And the People were expecting Zachary, and marvelled that he tarried fo long in the Temple: And when he came out, he could not fpeak to them: And they perceived he had feen a Vifion in the Temple; for he made Signs to them and remained Speechless. And it came to pafs as foon as the Day of his Office were accomplished, he departed to his own Houfe: And after thofe Days, his Wife Elizabeth conceived, and hid herfelf five Months, faying, thus has the Lord dealt with me in the Days wherein he looked on me, to take away my Reproach among Men.

Refp. Lord, I believe, O help my unbelief! Let not any Difficulties make me doubt thy Truth; nor too long a doubting provoke thy Wrath: * Every Word of thine Shall be fulfilled in their Seafon. Sometimes thu vifiteft thy Children with the ChaftifeB-4

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ment of a Rod; fometimes thou favoure them with the Smiles of Profperity: But al at laft shall co operate to their Good. Every Word

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And in the fixth Month, the Ange Gabriel was fent from God to a City o Galilee named Nazareth, to a Virgin e poufed to a Man whofe Name was F Jeph, of the House of David, and the Vi gin's Name was Mary: And the Ange coming in unto her faid, Hail, full of Grac our Lord is with thee; Blessed art thou amon Women.

Refp. Receive O bleffed Virgin? Receiv this happy Embaffie, which the gloriou Arch-Angel brings thee from the King o Heaven: See with bow deep a Respect b enters thy Prefence, and with how Ho nourable a Salutation begins his miracu lous Treaty: Hail, full of Grace, ou Lord is with thee; Bleffed art tho among Women. O may we learn o thee bright Spirit of Heaven to addrej ourfelves to this Queen of Angels; an with Joy, and Reverence, and devout A tention, often repeat thofe celestial Word * Hail, full

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And when fhe heard him fhe was troubled at his Saying, and thought within herself what Manner of Salutation this fhould be: And the Angel faid to her, Fear not Mary, for thou haft found Grace with God: Behold thou fhalt conceive in thy Womb, and bring forth a Son, and fhalt call his Name JESUS: He fhall be great,and called the Son of the moft High: And our Lord God fhall give him the Throne of his Father David; and he that reigns in the Houfe of Jacob for ever, and of his Kingdom there fhall be no End.

Refp. No matter for the Favour of Men; happy are they who find Grace with God: They fhall conceive in their Hearts the bleffed JESUS, and bring him forth in their holy Lives, and reign with him in his Kingdom: * And of his Kingdom there shall be no End. Here they perhaps may weep for a Time, and be poor and afflicted in this World of Injuftice: But hereafter their Lord fball plant them about the Throne of his Father, and make them fit down with him in his own Kingdom. * And of

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this be done, because I know not Man and the Angel anfwered and faid her, the Holy Ghoft fhall come upo thee, and the Power of the most Hig fhall overfhadow thee: Therefore al that holy Thing which fhall be born thee fhall be called the Son of God; an behold thy Coufen Elizabeth fhe ha alfo conceived a Son in her old Age; an this is the fixth Month with her wh was called Barren: For with God r Word fhall be impoffible. And Mary fail behold the Handmaid of our Lord; b it done to me according to thy Word And the Angel departed from her.

Refp. Rejoyce O my Soul, and be transport with Wonder, at the admirable Mystery thy Saviour's Incarnation: Rejoyce and thy greatest Trials humbly fay, * Behold t Servant of my Lord, be it done to me a cording to thy Word. If thou commandest n to believe above Reafon, I know with thee Word is impoffible: If thou permitteft me fuffer without Reafon, I know with thee ev ry Altis Juftice. * Behold the

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And Mary arofe in thofe Days, an went into the Hill-Country with ha