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into a City of Judah; and entered into the Houfe of Zachary, and faluted Elizabeth: And it came to pafs when h Elizabeth heard the Salutation of Mafry, the Babe leaped in her Womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghoft.

Refp. So quick and active is perfect Charity: As foon as she knew the State of her pious Kinfwoman, and that her Prefence would be welcome and useful, immediately phe refolves to vifit her, immediately he goes to afft ber. * O the devout and beavenly Converfation of this admirable Couple! Often they recount to each other the Favours of their God, ftill more to improve themfelves in Love and Gratitude; the bleed Mary wonders at the Fruitfulness of an old and barren Woman; and the bely Elizabeth admires that a Virgin fhould conceive a Child; and both together rejoyce, and pray, and adore. * O the drvent

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And fhe cried out with a loud Voice and faid, Bleffed art thou among Women. and bleffed is the Fruit of thy Womb. And whence is this to me, that the Mother of

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my Lord fhould come to me? For l As foon as the Voice of thy Salutatie founded in mine Ears, the Babe in n Womb lept for Joy; and bleffed is that believed; for thofe Things fhall accomplish'd which were told her fro our Lord.

Refp. Break forth my Soul into Joy, an Wonder, and fing aloud the Glories this holy Mother, and incomparable So * Blessed art thou among Women, an blaffed is the Fruit of thy Womb. 0 m thefe facred Names of JESUS ar Mary, ftill found in mine Ears, an make my Heart within me leap for Foy Still may my Memory faithfully keep them till my Tongne devoutly repeat them: Bleffed art

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And Mary faid, my Soul magnifie our Lord, and my Spirit has rejoyced in God my Saviour, because he has regar ded the Humility of his Handmaid: Fo behold from henceforth all Generation= fhall call me Bleffed: For he that i Mighty has done to me great Things, and Holy is his Name: And his Mercy is om them that fear him, from Generation to

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Generation; he hath fhewed Strength with his Arm; he has fcattered the Proud in the Imagination of their Hearts: He has put down the Mighty from their be Seat, and exalted the Humble; he has mfilled the Hungry with good Things, and the Rich fent empty away; he has received Ifrael his Child, being mindful of his Mercy, as he spake to our Fathers, to Abraham and his Seed for ever: And Mary abode with her about three Months, and returned to her own home.

Refp. Sing on bright Queen of Angels! And may thy Soul for ever magnify our Lord; who to redeem us Sinners, came down from Heaven, and in the VirginWomb miraculously affumed our Nature: *0 may the World fulfil thy Prophecy, and all Generations call thee Blessed: Wonderful are the Favours our God has done for thee. Wonderful are the Mercies be has done for us by thee. O may

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Now Elizabeth's full Time was come to be delivered; and she brought forth a Son; and her Neighbours and Kindred heard how our Lord had magnified his Mercy towards her; and they rejoyced with

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her: And it came to pafs, on the eigh Day, they came to circumcife the Chil And they called him Zachary, after th Name of his Father. And his Moth anfwered and faid, not fo, but he fha be called John: And they faid to he there is none of thy Kindred that is ca led by this Name.

Refp. Thus, O my God, thou difpofest ev our lefs important Circumstances, wh they any way conduce to the working o Salvation: Not that thy Power is oblig to fuch inferior Means. * But the Weal nefs of our Nature makes them useful us, and the Benignity of thine makes th pity our Weakness. Were we compleat Wife, we should little need a chofen Nan to ingage our Imitation, or other pious A to incline us to Virtue: * But the

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And they madeSigns to his Father, how he would have him called ; and he afke ; for a writing Table, and wrote, faying his Name is John: And they all marve led: And immediately his Mouth was o pend, and his Tongue loofed; and h fpake and praifed God: And Fear cam on all that dwelt round about them; an

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all thefe Sayings were noifed abroad througout all the Hill-Country of Judea : And all they that heard them laid them up in their Hearts, faying, what an one think you fhall this Child be? For the Hand of our Lord was with him.

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Refp. So we should do when we see the extraordinary Proceedings of our God: We foould fear his Power, and praife his Goodmes, and publish abroad his miraculous Works; that all the World may know, and love, and adore him. We should meditate with ourselves every Passage of his Providence, and confer with others to our mutual Improvement. That all

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And his Father Zachary was filled with the Holy Ghoft, and prophefied, faying Bleffed be our Lord, the God of Ifrael, for he hath vifited and redeemed his People, and has raifed up a Horn of Salvation forus in the Houfe of his Servant Daid: As he fpake by the Mouth of his holy Prophets which have been fince the World began. Salvation from our Enemies, and from the Hand of all that eus; to perform the Mercy promifed to our Fathers, and to remember his holy

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