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Devotions on St John Baptists Day

from Church's Year-Book, Meditations and Devotions from the Resurrection to All Saints' Day

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2016

Edited by
Jan Ross
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Summary

St Augustine saith, If a man be born of the H. Ghost, He shall in some Sence be as the Spirit is ; Holy and Spiritual : and by His Vertues and Graces infused live in that Spirit ; as if He were a Spirit ; free from Carnal Thoughts, Illustrated with Verities Rich in Vertues, Enflamed with fervent Affections.

And the H. Ghost in the Generation of a Spiritual Man, infuseth the Virtues of Faith Hope and Charity, with the seven Gifts of the H. Ghost, which Isaiah calleth Wisdom Understanding Counsel Might Knowledg Pietie and the Fear of the Lord. And if the soul be fertile in such an Holy Seedness, and so Cooperat with the H. Spirit, in his Gifts and Graces, that they becom Sanctified to Him ; then does it bring forth all those Twelv Glorious fruits of the same ; Lov, Joy, Peace, Patience, Long suffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness, Temperance, Modesty, Chastity, by which the Soul doth both feed it self, and nourish others to Life Eternal.

But O Lord where is the Person that hath all thy Gifts and Graces, so sanctified by his own Cooperation, as to bring forth these fruits unto Thee! Who O Lord hath such a Lov as to produce a Joy, or such a Joy as to Produce a Peace, or such a Peace as to produce a Patience, or such a Patience as to produce Longsuffering, or such an Humble and Quiet Long suffering as to produce Gentlenes, or such a Gentleness as to make him Good, or such a Goodness as produceth true and practical Faith. Who hath such a Practical faith as produceth meekness, or such a Temperance as produceth Modesty in all Applauses, or such a modesty as produceth Chastity in all Temptations! Scarcely in our Strictest Inquisition shall we find such a true born Child of thy H. Spirit. O then let us retreat into former Ages, and follow thy Holy Church in her Circuits : And here behold this Day she brings us to one, so Holy, that the H. Ghost by particular Denomination Selected Him for the Work of the Ministery : saying, Seperat me Barnabas and Saul for the Work wherunto I hav called them.

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The Works of Thomas Traherne
<I>Church's Year-Book</I>, <I>A Serious and athetical Contemplation of the Mercies of GOD</I>, [<I>Meditations on the Six Days of the Creation</I>]
 , pp. 161 - 173
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2009

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