Let us turn once again to God's
Word. I want to direct you this evening
to words that we find in the Song of Solomon. Turning to the
Song of Solomon in chapter 4 and verse 16. I'll read the verse
through, but I want to concentrate really on the first part of the
verse. You'll see the verse is made
up of two sentences according to the punctuation in our authorised
version. I'll read the verse through.
Song of Solomon 4.16 Awake, O north wind, and come thou south. Blow
upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my
beloved come into his garden and eat his pleasant fruits. It is a verse that we've looked
at on previous occasions. But over the past weeks, as I've
not been preaching, I've been thinking somewhat, in particular
of that gracious ministry of God, the Holy Spirit. In fact, I was very struck by
a statement made by that great Scots divine, Dr. John Duncan,
Rabbi Duncan as he was affectionately called because of his great Hebrew
learning and also his love for God's ancient covenant people
the children of Israel and Dr. Duncan said on one occasion we
live under the Pentecostal economy of the Holy Ghost what was done
that day was but the opening scene it was a splendid opening
no doubt but it was the splendid entering in of a perpetuity. And we are living of course in
that perpetuity. This is the day, this is the
dispensation of the Holy Ghost, the day of grace, the acceptable
time, and the day of salvation. Remember the language of John
7, where we have that statement that the Holy Ghost was not yet
given because Jesus was not yet glorified it was a ministry of
the Holy Ghost in the Old Testament we have it here in this verse
as I trust we'll be able to demonstrate tonight but with the coming of
Christ and the accomplishment of that great work of the Holy
Spirit what a remarkable event was that that occurred when the
day of Pentecost was fully calm. And so, I really want to concentrate
on the first part of this verse here in the Song of Solomon. Chapter 4 and verse 16, Awake,
O north wind, and come thou south. Blow upon my garden, that the
spices thereof may flow out. The Song of Solomon is quite
a remarkable book. It is a love song and it is Solomon's
song and expresses something of his natural love for his spouse. But we know that a greater than
Solomon is here. Surely the Song of Solomon is
first and foremost a gospel book. We see the Lord Jesus Christ
and we see his spouse, his bride, the church. And that's what we
have here, of course, in the words of the text that I've announced
for this evening. And we need to address the Holy
Spirit in our prayers. Awake, O north wind, and come
thou south. Blow upon my garden, that the
spices thereof may flow out. and we need that blessed ministry
of the Holy Spirit we've referred to the coming of the Spirit there
on the day of Pentecost and what a remarkable day that was when
they were all together with one accord and then suddenly there
came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind and we're
told they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and then we have
a second Pentecost in a sense in Acts chapter 10 where Peter
must go to the house of Cornelius the Pentecost of the Gentiles
and we are told there that while Peter spake the Holy Ghost fell
upon all them which heard. Now as we are hearing the word
of God we need the Holy Ghost to fall upon us that the word
might come with that gracious authority that the spirit himself
might apply the truths of the gospel to our souls. What's all that coming together?
What is it to attend a multitude of services if we know nothing
at all of the Holy Spirit? So I want to try to say something
with regards to that ministry. The ministry of the Holy Spirit
as we have it in this particular part of the verse. Dividing the
subject into some three parts, first of all to observe how he
is to be prayed to and he is to be prayed to because he is
God. Secondly to say something of
his sovereignty. How as God of course he is over
all, he is sovereign. And then finally I want to say
something with regards to the diversity and the order of his
workings. First of all, what we have here
is really prayer. It's the spouse that speaks,
the bride, and it's a prayer. And it's a prayer that's being
addressed to a person. under the figure of the wind,
yes, but it's a person that is really addressed in prayers.
And it's not improper to address prayer to all of the persons
in the Godhead. I know that the proper or the
customary order of our prayer is that we address the Father
and we address the Father through the mediation of the Son and
we do that by the gracious ministry of the Holy Spirit. through Christ
we have access we are told by one Spirit onto the Father but
it's not improper to address prayers to God the Son we see
it in the course of the ministry of the Lord Jesus many times
He's addressed people address Him and pray to Him and it's
not improper to address prayers also to the Holy Ghost He is
a person He is a person we know that from the teaching of the
Lord Jesus as the Lord Jesus speaks much of the Holy Spirit
there in John's Gospel in the language that we have in chapter
16 he says it is expedient that I go away for if I go not away
the comfort of the Holy Ghost will not come but if I depart
I will send him unto you he says I will send him and it is the
singular masculine pronoun that we have there the Lord Jesus
refers to him as a person and as a person he is prayed to and
he is prayed to here in the text away go north wind and come thou
south blow upon my garden that the spices thereof may flow out
and as he is a person to be prayed to so he is a person who can
be sinned against and we have that solemn account of Ananias
and Sapphira lying against the Holy Ghost they sold a portion
of land and taken the proceeds and they bring them and present
a part to the Apostles as if they are presenting the whole.
But Peter of course has a remarkable spirit of discernment and now
we see him rebuking them. There in the opening part of
Acts chapter 5, we're told of a certain man named Ananias with
Sapphira, his wife's hold of possession, kept back part of
the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain
part and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, Ananias,
why has Satan filled my heart to lie to the Holy Ghost and
to keep back part of the price of the land? Whilst it remained,
was it not thine own? And after it was sold, was it
not in thine own power? Why hast thou conceived this
thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men,
but unto God. Now see what he says here. He speaks of the Holy Ghost.
He's a person. And what has this man, Ananias,
together with his wife done? They've lied. Satan, fill thine
heart to lie to the Holy Ghost. Then he says, Later, in verse
4, thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God. The Holy Ghost
is clearly spoken of as God, because He is God. He is the
third person in the Godhead. We confess one God. And the great
mystery of the Trinity, one God in three persons, God the Father,
God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. you know it's interesting
when we come to the Old Testament Scriptures and of course the
verse that we're considering is part of the Old Testament
and the word that we have here wind the Waco north wind come
thou south or the words wind is the Hebrew word Ruach and
it's an interesting word because it can be translated in various
ways. Here it's translated as winds.
On other occasions it might be translated as breath but it can
also be translated as spirits. The same word is used over and
over again and the context would determine whether the reference
is to the wind or to breath or to the spirits. and interestingly
of course we have it in that other portion that we were reading
there in Ezekiel 37 where the prophet is told verse 9 prophesy
unto the winds and the margin here gives the alternative reading
breath and at the end of that ninth
verse The word breath is used actually, but it's the same word.
At the beginning of verse 9 it's wind, at the end it's breath.
Reading then here in Ezekiel 37 verses 9 and 10, prophesy
unto the wind, prophesy son of man and say to the wind, thus
saith the Lord God, come from the four winds, O breath. and
breathed upon these slain that they may live so I prophesied
as he commanded and the breath came into them and they lived
and stood up upon their feet and exceeding great armour so
the words there is used as a reference to the wind but also a reference
to breathing but as I said it can also be used in reference
to the spirit In fact that's how it is used many times in
the Old Testament. But when we come over to the
New Testament we have a remarkable example of the wind being identified
with the Spirit in the ministry of the Lord Jesus, that passage
that we read in John chapter 3. Remember what the Lord says
there concerning the great doctrine of regeneration, the new birth,
how the sinner must be born again, And how can the sinner be born
again? He must be born of the Spirit. Ye must be born again,
ye must be born from above, it can be rendered. But there in
verse 8 of that chapter, the Lord says, The wind bloweth where
it listeth, and thou hearest the sounds thereof, but canst
not tell whence it cometh, nor whither it goeth. So is everyone
that is born of the Spirit. now we have the same word there
translated differently at the beginning of the verse as at
the end of the verse in the first part the Lord says the wind bloweth
where it lifteth and at the end he says so is everyone that is
born of the spirit but it's the same word the spirit is the wind
and the wind is the spirit and the spirit is the breath and
the breath is the spirit all scripture is given by inspiration
of God we read in scripture all of the Bible given by inspiration
of God literally all scripture is the breathings of God and
Peter tells us how the holy men in the Old Testament spake as
they were moved by the spirit of God here in the Bible we have
the breathings of God it's the word of God It's a blessed ministry
of God the Holy Spirit and so we have to recognize who it is
that is being spoken to here. This is prayer and it's prayer
addressed to a person and that person is another than God. God the Holy Spirit. And so in the second place surely
we have to recognize that as God he has an absolute sovereignty. God doeth according to his will
among all the armies of heaven and all the inhabitants of the
earth and none can stay his hand or say to him what doeth thou. Oh let God be God, God is sovereign. And how apt really is this figure
of the wind when we think of the Spirit. Remember what we're
told in Ecclesiastes, the book just previous to the Song of
Solomon. And there in the opening chapter
at verse 6 we're told the wind goeth toward the south and turneth
about onto the north it windeth about continually and the wind
returneth again according to his circuits. All the mysterious
circuits, the windings of the winds. How strange, how mysterious
it all is. How sovereign the spirit is.
And we see his sovereignty of course in all the works of God's
creation. Creation is a work of God in
the beginning. God created. The heavens and
the earth we do is God. As we said God is three persons.
And we have that remarkable statement don't we in Psalm 33, by the
word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the host of them
by the breath of his mouth. The word of the Lord In the beginning was the Word
and the Word was with God and the Word was God. The same was
in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him.
And without Him was not anything made that was made. And the Word
was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory, the
glories of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace
and truth. By the Word of the Lord. the
heavens were made. That is God the Son. God the
Son is there in creation as is God the Father. But as also is
God the Holy Ghost. Why at the end of that opening
verse in scripture we're told as the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters. All the Spirit of God is there.
By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the
host of them by the breath or the winds or the spirits of His
mouth. The Holy Spirit is sovereign
in the work of creation. How does God create? Doesn't
God create in a sense, if we may say, by His very breathings?
He spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. God said, let there be light. It's the Spirit of God. The Sovereign
Spirit of God who is there working in creation. This is the one
that we have set before us here in the text. It's God. It's God
the Holy Ghost. But all think more especially
of His sovereignty in that great work of the new birth. We read the familiar chapter
of John 3. The Lord Jesus in that interview
with Nicodemus, the teacher of the Jews. Now the Lord emphasizes
the great necessity of new life. If the Spirit is there in the
first creation how much more the Spirit is there in the new
creation. The sinner must be born again, born from above,
born of the Spirit of God. And now we've already referred
to the language of the 8th verse in that chapter. the figure that
the Lord is using. He likens the Spirit's workings
to the circuits of the wind, the mysterious sovereign workings
of the Spirit. The wind bloweth where it listeth,
and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it
cometh or whither it goeth. So it's everyone that is born,
born of the Spirit. It's a sovereign work that God
does in the soul of the sinner. And it is vital. All new life
from Him we must receive. What are we by nature? We are
those who are dead in trespasses and sins. Ye must be born again,
says the Lord Jesus Christ. And how are we to be born again?
Born, it says, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh,
nor of the will of man, but of God. There is nothing of free
will in the in the new birth it's the sovereign work of the
spirit of God that's what the Lord Jesus himself says our state is such you see we're
dead in trespasses and sins we have no spiritual desire no spiritual
perception we have nothing spiritual or the vital necessity then of
that great work of the spirit that sovereign work of the spirit
in regeneration What side did any of us have in our natural
birth? Why? We're begotten of our fathers,
born of our mothers. We're here. How much more is that the case
if there's going to be a new birth? It must be the sovereign
work of God in the soul of the sinner. And how that work is so mysterious. now it's an inward work of the
Spirit think of the language of the Lord Jesus when he speaks
of his kingdom that kingdom that is not of this world that blessed
reign of grace he says the kingdom of God cometh not with observation
neither shall they say lo here or lo there but behold the kingdom
of God is within you oh it's an inward work of the Spirit
and how we need to cry out to that blessed spirit awake oh
north wind and come thou says blow upon my god how each of
us need that blessed ministry of the spirit and how his workings
you see are so different so diverse we see it here we have north
wind and we have south wind Remember when the apostle writes
to the church at Corinth, that remarkable church really, in
many ways Paul addresses two epistles to the Corinthians.
It was a highly gifted church with regards to spiritual gifts. But there was much abuse of the
gifts of the Spirit. Paul has to rebuke them and goes
into some detail with it. There were those of course who
had come in amongst them who were false teachers and they
were undermining the authority of the apostle. He had been instrumental
under the hand of God in first taking the gospel to Corinth.
He planted that very church and yet in those epistles time and
again we find Paul having to defend himself and his apostleship
because of the false teachers. Now he speaks of the ministry
of the spirit, he says there are diversities of gifts but
the same spirit. Or there might be different gifts
and there should be various gifts amongst the people of God in
the churches of Jesus Christ. But it's the same spirit. And
one is not to despise the other. He says, All these worketh one
and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he
will. The Spirit is so sovereign, you
see, in dividing those gifts amongst the people of God. One
has one gift, another has another gift. You can read these things
there in 1 Corinthians chapter 12. And how he likens the body
of the church to the human body. and the eye has no way in which
it can dismiss the foot as being unnecessary. All the members
are part and parcel of that one body which is ministered to by
the Spirit of God. But I want in the third place
to turn more specifically to consider something of the diversity
and the order of the work of the Spirit as it's said before
us in this verse. Awake, O north wind, and come
thou south. Blow upon my garden, that the
spices thereof may flow out. We have the north wind and we
have the south wind. There are two things to observe
then with regards to the ministry of the Spirit. We might say there's
a work of conviction that he does in the soul of the sinner.
and there's a word of comfort when he comes to minister of
the things of Jesus Christ to that sinner. How important is
the wind? Think of the figure for a while. The wind, is it not nature's
fan? How the winds cleanse the air,
the atmosphere. when we come into the height
of summer often we have days which are so still, so stuffy
or we long for the breezes we long for the wind, we need the
wind and it is that that God has provided
in his great wisdom in his creation he has finished the work of creation
but he governs the world by his sovereign providence winds and
waves obey we have those words of that man
Elihu that remarkable man who makes a long speech at the end
of Job says some wonderful things he says amongst others out of
the south cometh the whirlwind and colds out of the north there
are differences you see between the north wind and the south
wind and observe here the order of the spirits working it is
the north wind that is spoken of first of all and how important is that work
the north wind that wind that bites that wind that cuts that
wind that we might say is associated with the work of conviction and
reproof it comes first as that but it's preparing for something
else really and we have a remarkable example of it in some ways in
what we read concerning the prophet Elijah there in 1st Kings 9c
when he flees before that wicked woman Jezebel wanders into the
wilderness, flees into the wilderness and then the angel ministers
to him he's in the wilderness of Horeb and he's in the cave
there and he wants the Lord to appear and what does he witness? he witnesses some strange things first of all we read of a mighty
strong wind but the Lord isn't in the wind there and then we read of an earthquake
but the Lord isn't in the earthquake and then there's a fire but the
Lord isn't in the fire but then there's the still small voice and that's the voice of mercy
but all that goes before you see there's that that is preparatory
preparatory to the coming of the still small voice, but first
of all there is all that's associated with noise and turmoil before
the still small voice of God. We see it, I suppose, more strikingly
when we come to the New Testament. Think of the coming of the Lord
Jesus Christ. When Christ comes in the fullness
of the Gospel Before that there is a remarkable work of preparation,
isn't there? There is one who comes to prepare
the way, the harbinger. The ministry of John the Baptist.
And now the Baptist comes preaching repentance and he's there in
the wilderness. What a remarkable ministry it
is. We're told of it. in prophecy
there in Isaiah chapter 40 verse 3 the voice of him that crieth
in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord make straight
in the desert a highway for our God the voice said cry and he
said what shall I cry and in the message all flesh is grass
And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of
the Lord bloweth upon it. Truly the people is grass. The
grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the Word of our God shall
stand forever. Oh, is that ministry, you see,
that's preparatory to the coming of Christ, bringing a man to
the end of himself, or when the Spirit blows upon the man and
he feels himself to be grass, he's nothing. All flesh is grass,
all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. What
is this? Is it not that north wind that
is preparatory? It's a ministry of the Spirit.
The Lord Jesus himself speaks of such a ministry. There in
the 16th of John When He has come, He is speaking of the Holy
Spirit. When He has come, He will reprove the world of sin,
and of righteousness, and of judgment. Of sin, because they
believe not on Me. Of righteousness, because I go
to the Father and you see Me no more. Of judgment, because
the Prince of this world is Judge. Though He comes to reprove, does
the Spirit. Or as Imogen says, he comes to
convince of sin. Why? Because they believe
not. Or that sin which does so easily
beset us. Have you ever been convicted
of your unbelief? That's a work of the Spirit. We live in a day when people
like to speak of faith as if it's some easy thing. Easy believers. The Spirit will show us the impossibility
of faith. Or could I but believe, then
all would easy be. I would but cannot, Lord, relieve. My help must come from Thee. We need the Spirit of God. A
new nature. We need that faith that is of
the operation of God. People like to think that they
can persuade men into faith. Reason men into faith. Well,
they might reason men into some sort of notional idea of what
faith is, but that's not saving faith. True faith is the gift of God.
It comes by the operation of God. When the Spirit comes to
convince a man, you see, and this is what the sinner must
come to he must be made to feel what he is he shows us ourselves and that's
the ministry of the Lord in many respects as we see in 2nd Corinthians
chapter 3 what is the ministry of the Lord?
it's a ministry of condemnation it's a ministry of death how the proud heart of the sinner
has to be broken to pieces. And God's word is like that.
It's a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces. But then we read of the gospel. And what is the gospel? It's
that ministration of righteousness and life. And we have to distinguish
between these two. The Lord Jesus himself makes
it clear that they that are whole have no need of the physician
but they that are sick. He says I came not to call the
righteous but sinners unto repentance. Many are really full of self-righteousness. If any man thinks that he has
anything that he can contribute to his salvation that's self-righteous. We have to be brought to nothingness. The grass that fired us away. We have to be brought to that.
There is a ministry then of the Holy Spirit, the north wind,
the cutting wind, the convicting wind. Whatever things the law
says, it says to them that are under the law, that every mouth
may be stopped. and all the world become guilty
before God our mouth stops what can we say? what can we plead?
we are utterly undone all by the Lord is that knowledge
of seeing but then there is the other part of the spirit work
calm thyself calm thyself And what a comforting ministry is
that. Why the Holy Ghost ultimately
is the Comforter is he not? Isn't that the name that we find
there in John's Gospel? The Comforter. And all the comforts
of the southerly winds. We live in the Northern Hemisphere
and of course here that the southerly wind is associated with that
that is warm and gentle. Again at Manilayu in Job, Job
37, 17, He quieteth the earth by the south wind. He quieteth
the earth by the south wind. The Lord Jesus himself says in
the Gospel, When ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will
be heat. and He cometh to pass, or the
warmth of those southerly breezes. And it's a spiritual thing, that
He's being addressed as the southerly wind. And how are we to understand
and interpret that? Well, spiritually, He comforts,
doesn't He, when He comes as the Spirit of Christ, when He
comes as that One who will reveal the Lord Jesus Christ, He shall
glorify me, says Christ. He shall take of mine and shall
show it unto you. And who is it that needs that
blessed revelation of the Spirit? Those who are sinners. Those who are sinners, it's the
Spirit's work to apply that blessing of salvation to them in the great
outworking of the covenant. In the covenant, of course, the
eternal covenant, the covenant of redemption, the Father sends
the Son. Now the Son comes as the servant
of God to execute the great work of redemption. Not to do His
own will, but the will of Him who has sent Him to finish His
work. He utters that blessed word from the cross, it is finished. And He yields up the ghost. but then he tells the disciples
there to wait at Jerusalem for the coming of the Spirit and
does he not come as the Spirit of Christ? Now Peter in his sermon
preaches of him that one whom they had crucified
God has exalted with his right hand and now he is the one who
is shedding abroad the Holy Ghost and he comes as that one who
will take of the things of the Lord Jesus Christ and reveal
them to sinners all this is his blessed ministry to take of the
things of the Lord Jesus not speaking of himself but making
known the things of the Saviour and you know In all His workings,
this is the comforting thing to us, in all His workings the
Spirit's dealings are so measured and so equitable. There's a lovely
verse in Isaiah 27.8. He stayeth His rough wind in
the day of His east wind. He stayeth His rough wind in
the day of His east wind. That's the way of the spirit. When he brings conviction into
the soul of the sinner, he's not going to leave the sinner
there. He will yet come again and reveal the things of Christ.
It's the ways of God with us. God is good and God does good. All his dealings with us. He weighs the matter up. he never
allows that we should be tested or tempted above we're able with
the temptation you will make a way of escape we're told that
you may bear it or the blessed work of the spirit yes your work
conviction will come as the north wind and there'll be those those cuttings, those bitings
as it were those convictions but he'll also come in all the
consolations of the gospel of the grace of God. And of course
the important thing for us is to distinguish these diverse
dealings of the Spirit. It's so important that we recognize
which characters he's dealing with when he comes in all the
strength of the Holy Lord of God with all those threatenings.
Who is he addressing? Secure sinners. those as he were set in their
ways so he comes with a hammer of
the law to break the hard-hearted sinner but when he comes in the
gospel with all the gracious promises of that gospel who does
he address then? sensible sinners those who have
a real sense of their needs have been fitted for this. What comfort can a saviour bring
to those who never felt their woe? A sinner is a sacred thing.
The Holy Ghost has made him so. How has he made a sinner sacred
by coming as that north wind. And now this one is prepared
to hear the gracious words of the Gospel. Nor let us not invert the ministry of the Spirit,
He comes first as the North Wind, but He comes as the North Wind
in order that He might come also as the South Wind. And ultimately, we have to recognize
this, He will always come principally to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. He is God. I trust we've established
that blessed truth. He is God the Holy Ghost. He
is equal to the Father, He is equal to the Son. Three persons
in one Godhead. Undivided, indivisible. Co-equal,
co-eternal. And yet, how the Spirit in this
day of grace delights to come as the Spirit of Christ. He shall
not speak of himself, says Christ. He shall not speak of himself. His ministry is so self-effacing. He won't call attention to himself.
He shall glorify me, says Christ. He shall take of mine and shall
show it unto you. Do we believe that? If so, will
we not be those who desire to pray to him? Awake, O Northwind,
and come thou south below upon my garden, that the spices thereof
may flow out and then that second sentence in the verse surely
addressed to the Lord Jesus let my beloved come into his garden
and eat his pleasant fruits and the spirit prepares the way for
the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ the blessed work then
of the spirit of God under the figure that we have here of the
north wind and the south wind. I began by saying how over these
past few weeks I've thought about these matters in some measure
to meditate upon them I began by referring to those words of
dear Rabbi Duncan his perpetuity that we're living in the day
the dispensation of the Holy Ghost but let me close by referring to another passage
in the biography of Dr. Duncan. A remarkable minister
in Scotland, John Duncan. His friend Alexander Moody Stewart
wrote his biography and he says this. Of his own preaching in Glasgow,
Dr. Duncan remarked, I was a very
popular preacher till I began to preach on the work of the
Spirit. Then the church grew thin." This he gave as an indication
of the natural aversion to whatever is most spiritual. But on another
occasion, at a later period when it had been suggested in our
presbytery to recommend ministers to preach specially on the work
of the Spirit, Dr. Duncan said to me, I doubt the
wisdom of the proposal. I think that no extensive awakening
or revival has ever been produced by preaching on the work of the
Spirit, but rather by awakening the conscience and setting forth
Christ. Oh, I trust that though we've
tried to say a little with regards to that blessed work of the Spirit,
there's one thing we must remember. His delight is to glorify Christ. He shall not speak of himself,
says Christ. He shall glorify me. He shall
take of mine and show it unto you. Oh God, grant that we might
know such a ministry of the Spirit, revealing to us, revealing in
us. those things that concern the
Lord Jesus Christ and that great salvation and then we will say
let my beloved come into his garden and eat his pleasant fruits
or when the Lord comes to eat his pleasant fruits does he not
invite his church to come and sup with him and to feast with
him now the Lord willing the church is going to come together
presently at the Lord's table, God grant that we might know
what it is then to, by the Spirit, feed upon that spiritual meat,
to eat the flesh and to drink the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord be pleased to bless
His work. Amen.