76 Prayers and Meditations.

Holy Spirit, but in life and in death have mercy on me for Jesus Christs sake. Amen.

acts of forgiveness *.

p. m. In the pew I read my prayer and commended my friends, and those that 2 this year. At the Altar I was generally attentive, some thoughts of vanity came into my mind while others were communicating, but I found when I considered them, that they did not tend to irreverence of God. At the altar I renewed my resolutions. When I received, some tender images struck me. I was so mollified by the concluding address to our Saviour that I could not utter it 3 . The Communicants were mostly women. At intervals I read collects, and recol lected, as I could, my prayer. Since my return I have said it. 2 p.m.

May 21.

These resolutions I have not practised nor recollected. O God grant me to begin now for Jesus Christ's Sake. Amen.

116.

July 25, 1776.

God who hast ordained that whatever is to be desired, should be sought by labour, and who, by thy Blessing, bringest

1 In Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living, takest away the sins of the world, under the heading of A prayer of receive our prayer. Thou that sittest preparation or address to the holy at the right hand of God the Father, sacrament, we find An act of love; have mercy upon us.

An act of desire ; An act of con- For thou only art holy ; Thou only

tritionj An act of faith. I do not art the Lord ; Thou only, O Christ,

find in the Dictionaries any defini- with the Holy Ghost, art most high

tion of act as here used. in the glory of God the Father.'

2 Strahan prints 'died,' though Johnson defines to mollify ' to ap- ' died' it certainly is not. What John- pease; to pacify; to quiet.' Here son wrote was the Greek letter 6. he must use mollified in the sense of For an explanation of this see post, affected or touched.

p. 89. Boswell, who, 'according to his

3 ' O Lord, the only begotten Son usual custom ' on Easter Sunday, Jesu Christ ; O Lord God, Lamb visited him after morning service, of God, Son of the Father, that records :' It seemed to me that there takest away the sins of the world, was always something peculiarly mild have mercy upon us. Thou that and placid in his manner upon this takest away the sins of the world, holy festival.' Life, iii. 25.

have mercy upon us. Thou that

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