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and while it dazzles, makes us tremble for our safety. Science 

 therefore, without piety, whatever admiration it may excite, will 

 never be entitled to an equal degree of respect and esteem, with 

 the humble knowledge which makes us wise unto salvation. The 

 belief of Sir William Jones in revelation, is openly and distinctively 

 declared in his works; but the unostentatious effusions of seques- 

 tered adoration, while thej r prove the sincerity of his conviction, 

 give an additional weight to his avowed opinions. 



" It would be unnecessary to adduce proofs in support of this 

 assertion; but the beauty and piety of his prayers and supplica- 

 tions evince such solemn awe and purity of soul as cannot easily 

 be exceeded. The following sublime address to the Deity is re- 

 luctantly curtailed. 



" Eternal and incomprehensible Mind! who, by thy boundless 

 power, before time began, createdst innumerable worlds for thy 

 glory, and innumerable orders of beings for their happiness, which 

 thy infinite goodness prompted thee to desire, and thy infinite 

 wisdom enabled thee to know! We, thy creatures, vanish into 

 nothing before thy supreme Majesty; we hourly feel our weak- 

 ness; we daily bewail our vices; we continually acknowledge our 

 folly: — Thee only we adore with awful veneration; thee we thank 

 with the most fervent zeal; thee we praise with astonishment and 

 rapture: — to thy power we humbly submit; of thy goodness we 

 devoutly implore protection; on thy wisdom we firmly and cheer- 

 fully rely. — Impute not our doubts to indifference, nor our slow- 

 ness of belief to hardness of heart; but be indulgent to our imper- 

 fect nature, and supply our imperfections by thy heavenly favour. 

 Suffer not, we anxiously pray, suffer not oppression to prevail over 



