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and assist me that I may bring them to effect. And when thou shalt finally call me to another state, receive me to everlasting happiness, for the fake of our Lord Jefus Chrift. Amen.

ALM

18th Sept. 1784. Ashbourn.

LMIGHTY God, merciful Father, who art the giver of all good, enable me to return thee due thanks for the continuance of my life, and for the great mercies of the last year, for relief from the diseases that afflicted me, and all the comforts and alleviations by which they were mitigated: and, O my gracious God, make me truly thankful for the call by which thou haft awakened my conscience, and fummoned me to repentance. Let not thy call, O Lord, be forgotten, or thy fummons neglected; but let the refidue of my life, whatever it shall be, be paffed in due contrition and diligent obedience. Let me repent of the fins of my paft years, and fo keep thy laws for the time to come, that when it fhall be thy good pleasure to call me to another state, I may find mercy in thy fight. Let thy Holy Spirit fupport me in the hour of death; and, O Lord, grant me pardon in the day of judgment, for the fake of Jefus Chrift our Lord. Amen.

5th Dec. 1784.

ALMIGHTY and moft merciful Father, I am now, as to human eyes it feems, about to commemorate for the last time, the death of thy Son Jefus Chrift our Saviour and Redeemer. Grant, VOL. XI. O Lord,

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O Lord, that my whole hope and confidence may be in his merits and in thy mercy. Forgive and accept my late converfion; enforce and accept my imperfect repentance; make this commemoration available to the confirmation of my faith, the establishment of my hope, and the enlargement of my charity; and make the death of thy Son Jefus Christ effectual to my redemption. Have mercy upon me, and pardon the multitude of my offences. Blefs my friends; have mercy upon all men. Support me by the grace of thy Holy Spirit in the days of weakness, and at the hour of death; and receive me at my death to everlasting happiness, for the fake of Jefus Chrift. Amen,

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R. JOHNSON faid he always mistrusted romantick virtue, as thinking it founded on no fixed principle.

He used to say, that where fecrecy or mystery began, vice or roguery was not far off; and that he leads in general an ill life, who ftands in fear of no man's observation.

When a friend of his who had not been very lucky in his first wife, married a fecond, he faidAlas! another inftance of the triumph of hope over experience.

Of Sheridan's writings on Elocution, he faid, they were a continual renovation of hope, and an unvaried fucceffion of difappointments.

Of musick, he said,-It is the only fenfual pleafure without vice.

He used to say, that no man read long together with a folio on his table:-Books, faid he, that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all.-He would fay, fuch books form the man of general and easy reading.

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