life. And after this most glorious conquest, he ascended into heaven, where he sitteth at the right hand of his Father, and is our Lord, and we his servants, dearly bought.

All this you have learned in the last sermon ; but now, good children, in this third part of the Creed you should learn to know the third person in Trinity, the Holy Ghost, and also his benefits and gifts, that we may know what we have received of God after our redemption, whereby we may be made meet to come to everlasting life through the merits of Christ. For although our Lord Jesus Christ hath redeemed us from the captivity of sin, death, and hell, and hath set us again in the favour of God, yet we should have no knowledge of these great benefits, we should feel in our consciences no comfort, joy, or peace by the same, if they were not declared unto us by the preaching of God's most holy word. And our consciences should still remain troubled, and the fear of eternal death, and all naughty desires and concupiscences of the frail flesh, should ever remain in us (even as from Adam's time they be in us as soon as we be born), and so we should be utterly unapt to the Kingdom of God and life everlasting, if we should still remain as we be born.

For if we will be the heirs of God and everlasting life, we must be born again, and sanctified or made holy, as appertaineth to the children of the most holy God. Now this new birth and sanctification the Holy Ghost worketh in us; and there

fore he is called the Holy Ghost, because all thing that is sanctified or hallowed, is sanctified or made holy by him. Wherefore when the Holy Ghost is not in man, then it is not possible, that he should be holy, although he did all the good works under the sun. And for this cause St. Paul, writing to the Romans, doth call the Holy Ghost the, spirit of sanctification, that is to say, the spirit that maketh holiness. Learn, therefore, good children, that all we must be made holy and new men by the virtue of the Holy Ghost, and that we cannot attain this holiness by our own strength or works, and therefore we must believe in the Holy Ghost that he will sanctify us at such time and place, and after that sort and manner, as it shall please him. And it is our part to give place to his working, and not to withstand the same. And therefore we say in this Creed "I believe in the Holy Ghost." But it is necessary some things here to speak of the manner of sanctification, how and after what manner the Holy Ghost doth hallow us, that we may so prepare ourselves, or rather give place to the Holy Ghost which preventeth us, that he with his light and Almighty strength and power may work his will

in us.

Now I desire you to mark diligently by what means and fashion the Holy Ghost doth work this sanctification or hallowing in us......

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Now, the Holy Ghost worketh by this word on this fashion. First, he that believeth the Gospel, and receiveth the doctrine of Christ, is made the

Son of God, as St. John witnesseth in his Gos'pel, saying, As many as receive him, he hath given them power to be made the children of God." For when we believe in Christ, and are baptized, then we be born again, and are made the children of God. And when we be his children, then he giveth the Holy Ghost into our hearts, as St. Paul testifieth, writing thus: "Forasmuch as you be now the children of God, therefore God hath sent the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, which crieth, Abba, Father." And when we have received the Holy Ghost, he doth kindle in our hearts true love toward God, as St. Paul writeth in the Epistle to the Romans, in the 5th chapter. "The love of God (saith he) is poured abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us." And whereas the true love of God reigneth, there are God's commandments kept; and there beginneth a certain obedience to his will and pleasure.

Furthermore, the Holy Ghost doth stay the flesh and the lusts of the same, and helpeth us to overcome them, that we be not carried away by them, but may continue in cleanness and holiness of life. These be the benefits and works of the Holy Ghost in us. And to the intent you may the more easily bear them away, I will (as briefly as I can) repeat them again unto you. First of all, the holy Ghost provoketh and stirreth up men to preach God's word. Then he moveth men's hearts to faith, and calleth them to baptism,

he maketh us new men again. And when we be thus newly born and made again, and be become the children of God, then the Holy Ghost doth dwell in us, and make us holy and godly, that we may be the temples of God, in whom God may dwell and inhabit. Also this Holy Ghost doth daily more and more increase and establish our faith, that we, like most loving children, may call and embrace our heavenly Father, and hang fast about his neck. The same Holy Ghost doth also assure and warrant us that our sins be forgiven, and that our pardon is signed with God's seal. He doth also kindle in us a fervent love towards God, and maketh us willing to keep God's law and commandments, and helpeth us also to fight against sin, and to withstand our ill appetites and desires. Furthermore, with the cross of sickness and divers other kinds of afflictions and adversities, the Holy Ghost doth, as it were, crucify and mortify us to the world, that we may live to Christ. And this work he worketh continually in us, and ceaseth not until he have wrought in our hearts a perfect faith and a perfect charity, and until sin and all evil desires be clean at length purged out of us by the death of our bodies, and then we shall be perfect in all holiness, and clean delivered from all sin and adversity, and be heirs of our Father's kingdom, and his true and most dearly beloved children.

Wherefore, good children, as heretofore you have been taught, that we ought to believe in God the Father that made us, and in God the Son

that redeemed or bought us, so you must now learn to believe in the Holy Ghost that hath hallowed us, and doth continually more and more renew and make holy all those that believe the Gospel. For he that believeth in Jesus Christ, that he is our Lord and our Redeemer, to him God giveth the Holy Ghost to make him holy and righteous. As St. Paul witnesseth, saying, "No man can call Jesus Lord, but by the Holy Ghost." And forasmuch as now it hath been plainly declared unto you, after what sort and manner the Holy Ghost doth sanctify us, it is your part not only to imprint this lesson diligently in your minds, but also to desire God, with continual and earnest prayers, that he will vouchsafe more and more to sanctify you.

And as much as lieth in you, apply yourselves to hear godly sermons, and give your hearts to God, like wax, apt and meet to receive what thing soever it shall please him to print in you.

For he that is willing and glad to listen to godly sermons, he that is studious to learn the word of God, wherein Christ is preached, and with a stedfast faith cleaveth to the promise of the Gospel, he is made partaker of this sanctification and holiness, and of this so great comfort and everlasting salvation. For God saith by his prophet Isaiah, My word shall not return to me in vain." And St. Paul saith, that " The Gospel is the power of God, wherewith he worketh the salvation of all