[²] St. Stephen’s Day.
[³] Quinquagesima Sunday.
[⁴] 5th Sunday after Easter.
[⁵] Sunday after Ascension Day.
[⁶] 9th Sunday after Trinity.
[⁷] 19th Sunday after Trinity.
[⁸] Communion Office.
“Give thy Holy Spirit to this infant (or this person) that he may be born again.—Give thy Holy Spirit to these persons (N. B. already baptized) that they may continue thy servants.”
“Almighty God, who hast vouchsafed to regenerate these persons by water and the Holy Ghost—Strengthen them with the Holy Ghost the Comforter, and daily increase in them the manifold gifts of thy grace.” Office of Confirmation.
From these passages it may sufficiently appear, for what purposes every Christian, according to the doctrine of the church of England, does now receive the Holy Ghost. But this will be still more clear from those that follow: wherein the reader may likewise observe, a plain, rational sense of God’s revealing himself to us, of the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, and of a believer’s feeling in himself the mighty working of the Spirit of Christ.