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And the people imagining, and all me thinking in their hearts of John,that per haps he was Chrift; John answered fay ing to them all, I indeed Baptize yo with Water to penance; but he tha comes after me is mightier then I, whol fhooes I am not worthy to bear, nor fto ping down to unloose their latchet; H fhall Baptize you in the Holy Ghoft, an in fire, whofe Fan is in his hand, and h will thorowly purge his floor, and ga ther his Wheat into his Barn, but th chaff he wil burn with unqnenchable fire Many other things alfo exhorting,did preach to the people.

Refp. Learn O my Soul to confefs a truth though never fo much to thine own dimi nution; learn to advance the Honor 9 thy God, though never so much to thin own depreffion. They who, bumble themselves fhall be exalted, and they who exalt themselves fhall be humbled. Learn to decline the applaufe of men; and banish from thy thoughts all conceits of thine own worths learn to speak lowly of thy felf,and to mean as thou fayeft, they who

Lefon

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In thofe days when all the people were Baptized, came Jefus from Nazareth of Galile to Jordan to be Baptized of John; but John forbad him, faying, I have need to be Baptized of thee, and comeft thou to me? and Jefus anfwering, faid to him fuffer it to be fo now,for thus it becomes us to fulfill all juftice; then he fuffered him,and he was Baptized of John in Fordan; and ftraight-way coming out of the Water and praying, he faw the Heavens opened, and the Spirit of God defcending in a bodily fhape like a Dove,and

remaining

on him; and behold a Voice

From Heaven faying, this is my Beloved Son in whom I am well pleafed. Refp. Thou haft fulfilled all Justice in thy Jelf, and all mercy to us; cleanfe us Ó Lord, and we shall be clean, teach us to Pray, and we shall be heard. Heaven. lf will be opened to us, and the Spiof Grace defcend upon us, and dwel govern in our hearts for ever. Wafh fins, O thou adored Redeemer of the World, and our hopes are revived; Teconcile us to thy Father O thou Beloved Son of God! and our peace is fecured. Lef

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And J.fus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan; and immediatly the Spirit drove him into the Wilder nefs to he tempted of the Devil; andh was in the wilderness with the Beafts for ty days, and was tempted of Satan and in those days he eat nothing; and wher he had fafted forty days and forty nights he was afterwards hungry: And the Tempter coming to him faid, if tho be the Son of God

command tha these stones be made bread: but Jefus an fwered him faying 'tis Written man fhall not live by bread alone, but by every Word that proceeds out of the mouthe God. Then the Devil took him up int the Holy City, and brought him to Je rufalem, and set him on the pinnacle of the Temple, and said to him, if thou be the Son of God caft thy felf down; for it is Written,he shall give his Angels charg concerning thee, to keep thee; and in their hands they fhall bear thee up, left perhaps thou dash thy foot against a stone And Jefus anfwering, faid to him, again 'tis Written, thou fhalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again the Devil took

him up into an exceeding high Mountain, and in a moment of time thew'd him all the Kingdoms of the World, and the glory of them, and faid to him, all thefe will give thee, I will give thee all the power, and the glory of them; for to me they are delivered, and to whomfoever I will give them If therefore thou wilt fall down and adore me, all (hall be thine. Then faid Jefus to him, get thee hence Satan, forit is Written, thou shalt adore the Lord thy God, and him only fhalt thou ferve; and when the Devil had en

ded all the Temptation,he departed from

him for a feafon; and behold, Angels came and Miniftred to him.

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Rep Lead me O bleffed Spirit! into thy fis folitude, and there Speak to my beart teach me O Holy Jefu! though and weak, to follow as I can thy fared fleps, in fasting, and retirement, in Prayer and contemplation, that my dy may be temperate, and my Soul deToat, and both eternally faved. Every where, I fee, temptations may endanger; but every where I fee my SaviDr can conquer: Deliver me Ŏ Lord from the Assaults of mine Enemies, and Y

the corrupt inclinations of my own N ture: That my

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Of him Jobn gives teftimony,and cr out faying, this is he of whom I fpake, that comes after me is preferred bef me, for he was before me; and of hisfi nefs have we all received, and Grace f Grace. For the Law was given by M Jes, but Grace and Truth came by Je Chrift. No man has feen God at 4 time, the only begotten Son, who is the bofom of the Father, he has decla him; and this is the teftimony of Fa when the Jews fent Priests and Levi from Jerufalem to ask him, who art the and he confeffed and denyed not, E confeffed,I am not the Chrift. And th asked him, what then? art thou Elia and he faid I am not. Art thou the Pl phet? and he answered no. Then f they to him, who art thou? that we m give an answer to them that fent u What faift thou of thy felf? he said I a the voice of one crying in the Wilderne, make ftraight the way of our Lord; Taid the Prophet Efay and they wh were fent were of the Pharifes and the

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