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innocence, nor the might of the avenger over the weakness of the 

 just. Whenever we address thee in our retirement from the vani- 

 ties of the world, if our prayers are foolish, pity us; if presump- 

 tuous, pardon us; if acceptable to thee, grant them, all-powerful 

 God! grant them. And as with our living voice, and with our 

 dying lips, we will express our submission to thy decrees, adore 

 thy providence, and bless thy dispensations, so in all future states, 

 to which we reverently hope thy goodness will raise us, grant that 

 we may continue praising, admiring, venerating, worshipping thee 

 more and more, through worlds without number, and ages without 

 end!" 



Composed on waking at Sea, in his Voyage to India. 



" Graciously accept our thanks, thou Giver of all good, for 

 having preserved us another night, and bestowed on us another 

 day. O grant that on this day we may meditate on thy law 

 with joyful veneration, and keep it in all our actions with firm 

 obedience." 



Composed in Sickness, in India. 



" O thou Bestower of all good! if it please thee to continue my 

 easy tasks in this life, grant me strength to perform them as a 

 faithful servant. But if thy wisdom hath willed to end them by 

 this thy visitation, admit me, not weighing my unworthiness, but 

 through thy mercy declared in Christy into thy heavenly mansions ; 

 that I may continually advance in happiness, by advancing in true 

 knowledge and awful love of thee. Thy will be done!" 



