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power from on high, for which Apostles were bidden to wait and tarry; that is forgotten, and has altogether departed from the faith and experience of the people of God! That which is Omnipotent as the "rushing mighty wind,"-carrying every thing with it, and impelling the Church onward in her spiritual course,—like the ocean breeze, the gallant ship to its desired haven, that is forgotten, neglected, and despised by all! Ah! it is neglected and despised by all, in every Christian land; and schemes and contrivances, and fleshly reformations, and conferences and clubs, and worldly organizations-appear and disappear, at every change of situation in the Church's passage through this wilderness world! She does indeed say—" it is by might,"—it is not by the power of the Holy Ghost alone. This is the cause, my dear Christian Reader, of all our "broken cisterns,""-which we have hewn out, failing to retain the living water. We have fallen from the heavens to the earth! we are become carnal and walk as fleshly men do, having no discernment of spiritual things. We idolize talkers, -we worship intellect,- -we glorify, instead of crucifying the proud flesh,-in which there dwells no good thing which God can use. We love the world! We are its disciples and friends! It is our portion! We are building our own houses, calling them by our own names, and getting the glory an honour for ourselves!! We are content that that house of God should lie waste;-which is "the habitation of God through the Spirit.” We are cheered and glad when the glory of our own houses is increased ;—the Roman Catholic,-the Greek,-the Anglican,-the Presbyterian, the Independent,-Methodist,-Baptist, &c. are we not all, the one household of God? Can He dwell with schism and strife? He made provision,-" that there should be no schisms in the body. We have all grieved His Holy Spirit, quenched His power, and despised His glory! and are now,-earthly-sensualdevilish! The Holy things still remaining, are fast passing away from our grasp; for we are all unfaithful in what remains. Pride and vanity, emulation and wrath, form the very atmosphere we live in! We all say, for ourselves and our sects-" we are so rich and increased with goods that we have need of nothing; yet in His eye,-Whose we are, and Whom we all profess to serve,- -we are all poor, and wretched, and miserable, and blind, and naked! willing? Will we now let the Lord Jesus-the Baptizer with the Holy Ghost and fire,-enrich, comfort, enlighten, and enrobe us with the full horn of Salvation? Will we now receive the Holy

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Ghost, which is our seal, and the earnest of our inheritance,-till the full purchased inheritance is redeemed? Ah me! would that my Brethren could break loose from their fleshly, earthly, schismatic fetters-would that they could lift up their eyes to their Father, who gives The Comforter to them that ask Him! Oh! that they would be stirred up, to look to the risen One-the glorified One, the Baptizer with the Holy Ghost;-to Him, "Who is the Rock whence they were hewn; into Whom, we have all been Baptized, and made the children of God, by adoption and grace! Oh, that the Spirit of grace and supplication were poured out upon us all ;-that we might all see our own sins, and cover our brethren's! That we might mourn every family apart for our sins and schisms! That we might now look upon Him, Whom we have all pierced! Oh that those, who have been clinging to the rule and authority given by God, but have used it, to hinder the manifestation of His kingdom, -Who is King of kings, and Lord of Lords,― WOULD WEEP AND MOURN FOR THEIR SINS! Oh that those who being children of God in Him, Who is the man after God's own heart, the risen One in the heavens; and who claim the right to rule in His kingdom, when the Lord has not called them,-WOULD WEEP FOR THEIR SINS, AND MOURN APART! Oh that those, who being set apart for holy services, refuse to keep their true place, and because the Lord gave not Sacerdotal power to them,despise it; and lead God's people from his ordinances, into ways and ordinances of their own devising,-WOULD SEE THEIR SIN, AND MOURN APART! Oh that the schismatic,-who triumphs in the division of the Kingdom of Heaven,-who chooses what God has rejected, and curses what God has blessed;-who glories in the sorrow and affliction of the Lord Jesus in his Church, oh, that all these spiritual families of the One holy Seed, WOULD WEEP APART! Then would the Lord work such a deliverance, as our poor hearts are far too narrow and confined to conceive!

Now the enemy triumphs over us all! We, who should be seen as members of one body,-baptized by one Spirit,—having mutual care for one another;-are seen biting and devouring, what is our own flesh;—those who are members of Christ as well as we; for, says the Apostle, "if ye bite and devour one another, take heed lest ye be consumed one of another." We have been doing the work, of the madman and demoniac;-biting, tearing, and devouring our own body. We have not desired nor endeavoured to keep the unity of

the Spirit in the bond of peace. We are all weak together; for we cannot grow, or be strong, but as one body in Christ! The Lord Jesus seeks to restore to us the glory! Who is willing? Who will pray? Who will plead? Who will be willing that God should answer his prayer-" by terrible things in righteousness;-by giving what he prays for, and giving it, in His own ordained way?

N.B. In the next and future tracts, I shall enter into the subject of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost:

I. As given by the Lord, and distributed, and propagated,-by His Apostles.

II. The effects of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost upon the early Church, in holiness and power-in grace and gifts.

III. The causes and consequences of the Church's not abiding in the Baptism of the Holy Ghost.

IV. The absolute necessity for the revival and restoration of the Baptism of the Holy Ghost to the Church, now, if she would be prepared for the coming of the Lord in glory.

V. The consequent necessity for the filling up in the Church, of the long vacant office and ministry of Apostle, in order to the restoration, manifestation, and practical exercise,-for the blessing of the Catholic Church-of the one Baptism of the Holy Ghost;-from which the whole Church, from the beginning, has fallen away.

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II.

THE BAPTISM WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, AS FIRST GIVEN AND DISTRIBUTED.

"The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have "pleasure therein." Ps. cxi. 2.

ALL the works of God, both in nature and in grace, are honourable and glorious; the superficial observer of them, whether in the old or new creation, “seeing, sees them not. They need to be sought out by those who have pleasure in them; and those who disregard and pass by them with careless indifference, are sure to remain in ignorance, both as to their real nature, as well as to God's purposes and designs in them. They are indeed in themselves great, wonderful, and deep: but men, as the brute-ignorant and unobservant, know them not; or, as the fool— conceited and self-sufficient, they pass them by with a sneer, a jest, or a laugh, and so never understand them. What, therefore, in itself, and in the eye of God, is most glorious and sublime; is regarded by them as most despicable, ridiculous, and absurd. All discoveries in science are so many reproofs, to vain man, of his ignorance, even of the operations of God in nature,- of her hidden