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infirmities , who being himself once like ourselves a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief , was formed to sympathize with oiir sorrows , to gi ^ e consolation to the
broken-hearted ; and has commanded us not only to love , reverence and obey , but freely to offer up our prayers and our thanksgivings to the throne of thy grace . —May that spirit which
animated all his devotions , and guided every action of his life , which regulated all his passions and affections , inspire us with the same just sentiments and enlarged views , producing in us the same steady
confidence in thine unerring wisdom , the same humble submission to thy will , the same chearful hopes in thy parental kindness , * nd the same grateful sense of thine unmerited favours !
If we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves , and the truth is not in us : our igrrbrance of what is best for us , our deviations from tbe paths of rectitude and holiness , the imperfection of our desires , the strength of our passions , the irresolution of our conduct and
our manifold transgressions are known to Thee : may we ever be sensible of them , may we be ever desirous to have them removed , may we earnestly endeavour to correct whatever is amiss in them ,
earnestly implore and seek thy forgiveness , and be solicitous to act the part of affectionate , grateful children to Thee our kind parent , benefactor and constant friend *—
-What we' know not , but are capable of learning , do Thou teach us ; what we have neglected to do , do Thou enable us to perform ; and whatever is yet wanting to our happiness at present , or necessary io our receiving still greater hap-
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piness hereafter , do tliou kindly grant . Every blessing we enjoy in life we gratefully acknowledge is derived from Thee , and what Thou
hast graciously bestowed thou hast the most undoubted right to take away . Our lives and the lives oi those dearest to us , are ^ thy gift , and at thy disposal ; and whatever Thou doest we fiynvlv believe
to be not only wisest , but kindest and best . Ignorant of futurity ourselves , we ^ are incapable qi judging of the rectitude and goodness of thy proceedings , and our only resource and consolation under the calamities of the
present life , is the firm persuasion that all things shall work together for good to them that love Thee * We thank Thee , oh God ! that by the gift of thy Son , by the Revelation of thy will , by the discovery of a future state and world , Thou
hast given us spch demonstrative proofs of thy paternal goodness , that we cannot entertain a doubt but Thou wilt freely give us whatever we are fit to receive , capable
of improving , or framed to enjoy * To Thee , therefore , to wfcom all futurity is open , with whom human life appears but as a shadow that passeth away , and whose power is capable of making thy
creatures happy in every stage of existence , and who art continually intent upon our perfection and happiness , we resign ourselves and those that are dearest to us , persuaded that none who are innocent
and virtuous can be unhappy in any part of thy dominions , protected by thy power , and blessed with thy presence . Oh ! make it our chief concern to behave with propriety in every station of li £ e to do the duty Thou jbupt Uugkt
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3 © JDetouf Meditation on the Death ofFrieti&s *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1811, page 30, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2412/page/30/
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