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There comes a Woman of Samaria to draw Water; Jefus fays to her, Give me to drink, (for his Difciples were gone away into the City to buy meat.) Then faid the Woman, How is it that thou, being a fem, askeft drink of me, who am of Samaria; (for, the Jews com municate not with the Samaritans.) Jefus anfwered and said, If thou knew the gift of God, and who it is that y to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst perhaps have askt of him, and he would have given thee living Water. The Woman fays to him, Sir, thou haft no thing to draw with, and the Well is deep; whence then haft thou that Living Water? Art thou greater then our Fa ther Jacob, who gave us the Well, and drank thereof himself and his Children, and his Cattle? Jefus anfwered and faid to her, Every one that drinks of this Water shall thirst again; but, whoever drinks of the Water that I fhall give him

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Refp. So thou proceedeft with us, O gracious Lord, and fo we deal with thee: Thou askest of us and we rudely deny thee: Thou inviteft us to ask of thee, and we ungratefully neglect thee. O, did we know who it is that loves us, and what it is bee'l give us, we would ask of him, and be freely would bestow on us the Waters of Life. He would infufe fuch Craces into our hearts, and work our affections to fo. bleft a frame, that our very defires would become in our wn Souls a fountain of joy that Springs Eternity. O, did we Lesson 48.

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band, in that faidft thou truly. The Woman fays to him, Sir, I perceive thou. art a Prophet. Our Fathers adored in this Mountain; and you fay, at Jerufa lem is the place where Men ought to adore. Jefus fays to her, Woman,believe: me, the hour comes when you fhall adore the Father, neither in this Mountain, nor yet at Jerufalem. You adore what you know not, we know what we adore: for, Salvation is of the Jews.

But the hour comes and now is, when the true adorers fhall adore the Father in Spirit and in truth; for the Father feeks fuch to adore him. God is a Spirit, and they who adore him muft adore in Spirit and in truth. The Woman fays to him, I know the Meffias comes, who is called Christ; and when he comes he will tellus all things. Jefus fays to her, I who peak to thee am He. And, upon this came his Difciples, and marvelled that he talk'd with a Woman: yet no man faid, What seekeft thou? or why talkeft thou with her? The Woman then left her Water-pot, and went into the City, and fays to the Men there, Come fee a Man who has told me all that ever I did: is not this the Chrift? Refp..

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Then they went out of the City and came to him. In the mean while his Difiples prayed him faying, Mafter, Eat. But, he faid to them, I have meat to cat that you know not of. The Disciples therefore faid one to another, Has aly Man brought him to eat? Jefus fays to them, My Meat is to do the will of him that fent me, and to finish his work. Say not you, There are yet four Months

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may rejoyce together. And herein is that faying true, 'Tis one that fows,and 'tis another that reaps. I fent you to reap what you labour'd not; others took the pains and you have entred into their labours. And many of the Sa maritans of that City believed on him, for the faying of the woman which teltified, He told me all that ever I did. So when the Samaritans were come to hin, they befought him to tarry with them; and he abode there two days. And ma ny more believed, becaufe of his own word: and faid to the woman, Now we believe not becaufe of thy fayings for we have heard him our felves, and know this is indeed the Saviour of the World

Refp. Make us, O dearest Jefu, forfake the things of this world that retard us in our courfe of ferving thee: O let it be our meat to obey thy will, and finish the work thou command t us to do. For thy will, O Lord, is the benefit of thy Servants, and the work thou command eft our own Salvation. If we go out to feek thee, thou wilt stay to expect usi if we defire thy company thou wilt dwell

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