I pray God that he may pour into my soul, in rich abundance, the daily washing of regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost. The gifts of the Holy Spirit, my brother, are radical qualifications in a minister, and in a missionary. O that you and I may be blessed with large measures of them! Let us keep in sight, my brother, our obligations to God our Saviour, who has redeemed us from the lowest hell, for a short term of service, and an ineffably glorious reward of grace in the kingdom of heaven; animated by the prospect, let us spend and be spent for the sake of our Lord Jesus.

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