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is persuaded, that he hath been made partaker of this Blessing, orderly and legally, according as our Saviour Christ hath prescribed."

"Christ ordained the authority of the keys to excommunicate notorious sinners, and to absolve them which truly repent." [Second part of the Homily for WhitSunday. |

2. See also in reference to the doctrine contained in the seventeenth sermon of this volume, a sermon set forth by the authority of Archbishop Cranmer, in which these words occur: "But when by Baptism the Holy Ghost was given us, the which did spread abroad the love of God in our hearts, and did also deliver us from the bondage and tyranny of sin, and gave us new strength and power to wrestle against sin, and manfully to withstand our ghostly enemy, the devil, then after a certain manner we were able to fulfil God's commandments. And this is a great change and renewing of the inward man. And this I would you should know for a surety, good children, and stedfastly believe the same, that no child of the Jews or Turks which is not baptized, hath the Holy Ghost, neither that any such can understand the word of God, neither that any such is holy or righteous before God."

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.... by whose assistance (that is, by the assistance of the Holy Spirit) we be replenished with all righteousness, by whose power we shall be able to subdue all our evil affections, rising against the pleasure of God." [Homily on the Resurrection.]

3. On sermon eighteen, see Bishop Taylor, who in his Exhortation to the imitation of the Life of Christ, (page 64, Heber's edition), writes thus: "No man ever did his whole duty, save only the holy Jesus. The best of men did sometimes actions not precisely and strictly requisite, and such as were besides the precept; but yet, in the greatest flames of their shining piety, they prevaricated something of the commandment. They that have done the most things beyond, have also done some things short of their duty," &c.

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