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 performed; to recollect with gratitude the favours graciously bestowed; admire the Divine patience with which we have trifled, and to implore that protection and forgiveness, without which we are inevitably undone.

In the performance of this duty, you would experience a pleasure that will induce you persevere in the midst of surrounding opposition; and it is this pleasure Philetus, this will strengthen and support you under many of the trials you must expect to meet with civil in domestic, and religious life. It this that will make the most pressing difficulties appear comparatively light; and if in competition with the many spiritual blessings with which you are indulged, they dwindle into nothing. In a word, the tranquillity of mind arising from the practice of this duty cannot be explained; it would beggar the most elaborate description.

Before I conclude Philetus, I will transcribe for your perusal a few lines written