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 32 Prayers and Meditations.

fore is pressing, since the time of doing is short. O God grant me to resolve aright, and to keep my resolutions for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen x.

I resolve

to study the Scriptures. I hope in the original Languages. Six hundred and forty verses every Sunday will nearly comprise the Scriptures in a year 3.

To read good books. To study Theology.

to treasure in my mind passages for recollection 4.

to rise early. Not later than six if I can I hope sooner, but as soon as I can 5.

to keep a journal both of employment and of expences. to keep accounts 6.

to take of my health by such means as I have designed.

to set down at night some plan for the morrow.

Last year I prayed on my birth-day by accommodating the Morning collect for Grace 7, putting year for day. This I did this day.

53.

Sept. f, 1764.

O God, heavenly Father, who desirest not the death of a Sinner, grant that I may turn from my Wickedness and live.

resolution, which was since he found membering and recollecting, see Life,

he could not keep those which he iv. 127, n. i.

had made before that he would 5 The next Easter he purposed to

never make another resolution as long rise at eight. ' I often lye till two,'

as he lived.' Ticknor's Life of Pres- he adds. Post, p. 33.

cott, Boston, 1864, p. 17. 6 See Life, iv. 177, where he said

1 This passage is quoted in the of a lady : ' Sir, it is fit she should Life, \. 483. keep an account because her husband

2 Quis tibi, parve, Deus tarn magni wishes it, but I do not see its use';

pondera fati and ib. iv. 362 where he wrote to

Sorte dedit? tune hoc vix prima Langton : I am a little angry at you

ad limina vitae for not keeping minutes of your own

Hoste iaces ? acceptum et expensum, and think

STATIUS, Thebais, v. 534. a little time might be spared from

3 For his plans of * a methodical Aristophanes for the resfamiliares! course of study according to com- 7 In the Book of Common Prayer. potation,' see Life, i. 72. In the margin he has written

4 For the distinction between re- 'i8 th .'

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