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Notices of-JPrance . 783
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THE PRAYER OF NOAH .
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God of Creation , —Lord of Heav ' n and Earth , Who wast before the Universe had birth , Whose hand hath spread the curtain of the skies , And fram ' d the Sun , which light and life supplies :
At whose command the ocean ' s billows roar , Or calmly sleep , or die along- the shore : Whose will each subject element obeys , — O , hear thy servant , while he suppliant prays ! Him whom thy boundless love with life hath blest , Whilst winds and waves have rush'd o ' er all the rest , — O , hear him , as his songs of praise ascend , — God of the vast creation , —Father , —Friend !
But what were life , without Thy guardian pow ' r ? An empty shadow , or a fading flow ' r ! And what were all my joys , bereft of Thee ? A rising- billow on the pathless sea I Lord , Thou art great !—How mighty was that hand Which spread the Deluge o ' er this guilty land , : And whelm'd the souls thy mercy did create ! God of the storm and tempest , Thou art great !
Lord , Thou art good !—and , though the raging sea Hath swept o ' er all mankind , and sav'd but me , ' Pwas boundless mercy rais'd the rolling flood ! God of the out-spread ocean , —Thou art good ! But how shall feeble pow'rs like mine express Thy acts of mercy , King of Righteousness ! My lips refuse to ease my lab ' ring breast : — O , read the thoughts within my heart that rest ! J . C . W .
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tantism in Touraine had been exiled from their country by the detestable persecutions consequent on the revocation of the edict of Nantes , there appears to have been a strong suspicion infused into the mind of many a good Catholic , that the principles , and practice of Jesus Christ and his apostles were verv different to
those of the archbishops , canons , and other dignitaries of the Gallican Church . Suspicion had been before excjfed as , to the genuineness of the most vaunted relic of Marraoutifer , so that the stripping it of most of its revenues tended still further to lessen the respect hitherto entertained for a religious establishment , whose wealth " covered many sins . " And it certainly would appear not a little extraordinary to many , that an angel from
heaven should have been specially commissioned to present to the monks of Marmoutier a glass bottle , the contents of which were potent enough miraculously to heal the wounds of St . Martin , and yet that there should be no supernatural interference to prevent the holy receptacle of so holy a relic from being sacrilegiously despoiled of its independence and wealth . M .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1832, page 733, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1824/page/13/
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