The Good Christian - Or, Sermons on the Chief Christian Virtues; In Seventy-Six Sermons; Adopted to All the Sundays and Most of the Holy-Days of the Year, With a Full of All the Sermons, an Alphabetical Index of the Principal Subjects ... #267061

How can I know that the Holy Ghost has really come to me? This I shall explain in the first part. If He has come to me, what am I to do that He may dwell with me always? This I shall show to a certain extent in the second part. Come, 0 Holy Ghost, is now our prayer with the Catholic Church; prepare dur hearts for Thy coming, if we have not yet received Thee; and when Thou hast visited us, work. Upon our hearts, so that we may never suffer Thee to leave them again! This we beg of Thee through Mary, Thy most pure spouse, and the holy angels, Thy most faithful attendants. There are two ways in which a great dignitary can come forth to show himself in public; sometimes he appears without any pomp or circumstance, and incognito, as the expression goes, so that he tries to escape the outward signs of honor that are due to his person. In this guise he enters the houses of even his meanest servants and converses with them familiarly, as one friend would do with another, in order to pass the time away. On other occasions he comes forth surrounded by all the em hlems of his high position, to the sound of drums and trumpets, saluted by salvos of artillery, and accompanied by courtiers and satellites, while crowds of attendants on foot and on horseback precede and follow him. His appearance then excites a great commotion the soldiers run out of the guard-houses to present arms, and the people, great and small, rush to the windows to see him pass, and salute him with shouts of joy.