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 Prayers and Meditations.

��After evening prayer I retired, and wrote this account.

I then repeated the prayer of the day, with collects, and my prayer for night, and went down to supper at near ten.

May 4, 66. I have read since the noon of Easter day the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark in Greek.

I have read Xenophon's Cyropaedia.

66.

Sept. 1 8, 1766, at Streatham.

I have this day completed my fifty seventh year. O Lord, for Jesus Christ's sake, have mercy upon me.

Almighty and most merciful Father, who hast granted me to prolong my life to another year, look down upon me with pity. Let not my manifold sins and negligences avert from me thy fatherly regard. Enlighten my mind that I may know my duty that I may perform it, strengthen my resolution. Let not another year be lost in vain deliberations ; let me remember, that of the short life of man, a great part is already past, in sinfulness and sloth. Deliver me, gracious Lord, from the bondage of evil customs, and take not from me thy Holy Spirit ; but enable me so to spend my remaining days, that, by performing thy will I may promote thy glory, and grant that after the troubles and disappointments of this mortal state I may obtain everlasting happiness for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Added,

The Fourteenth S. after Tr.

The Morning collect.

The beginning of this (day) year x. Purposes,

To keep a journal, to begin this day.

succeeded in his Fellowship by John This latter prayer he ' accommodated'

Scott, then a youth of sixteen, after- (post, p. 54) by altering day into year

wards Earl of Eldon. Twiss's Life and us into me. It begins : ' O Lord,

of Lord Eldon, ed. 1846, i. 40. our heavenly Father, Almighty and

1 He added the Collect for the everlasting God, who hast safely

fourteenth Sunday after Trinity, and brought us to the beginning of this

the third Collect at Morning Prayer day.' in the Book of Common Prayer.

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