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 tience, hope, chearfulneſs, and all other diſpoſitions of mind that alleviate thoſe calamities which we are not able to remove.

The practice of this Virtue adminiſters great comfort to the mind of man in Times of poverty and Affliction, but moſt of all in the hour of Death. When the ſoul is hovering in the laſt moments of its ſeparation, when it is juſt entering on another ſtate of Exiſtence, to converte with ſcenes, and objects, and companions that are altogether new, what can ſupport her under ſuch Tremblings of thought, ſuch Fear, ſuch Anxiety, ſuch Apprehenſions, but he caſting of all her cares upon him who firſt gave her Being, who has conducted her through one Stage of it, and will be always with her to guide and comfort her in her progreſs through Eternity?

David has very beautifully repreſented this ſteady Reliance on God Almighty in his twenty third Pſalm, which is a kind of Paſtoral Hymn, and filled with thoſe Alluſions which are uſual in that kind of Writing. As the poetry is very exquiſite, I ſhall preſent my Reader with the following Tranſlation of it.