The Holy Spirit, breathing on the public ordinances, and the more private duties of Christianity, is like a fair wind and a brisk gale on a full-spread sail, which answers the highest expectations of the homeward-bound ship. No shipmaster could ever expect, under his bare poles, to make the desired haven, though favoured with a very fresh gale. If he did not both unfurl and stretch his sails in the best direction for the wind, he would look more like a madman than a mariner. So he that attends on no ordinances, attempts the performance of no duty, reads not the scriptures of truth, and prays not to the God of all grace, is not in the way of the heavenly gale that wafts the saints to glory.

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