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 46 Prayers and Meditations.

everlasting happiness through Jesus Christ our Lord, for whose sake hear our prayers. Amen. Our Father.

I then kissed her. She told me that to part was the greatest pain that she had ever felt, and that she hoped we should meet again in a better place. I expressed with swelled eyes and great emotion of tenderness the same hopes. We kissed, and parted. I humbly hope, to meet again, and to part no more *.

72.

BED-TIME.

Lent 2*, [1768.]

Almighty God, who seest that I have no power of myself to help myself ; keep me both outwardly in my body, and inwardly in my soul, that I may be defended from all adversities that may happen to the body, and from all evil thoughts which may assault and hurt the soul, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

This prayer may be said before or after the entrance into bed, as a preparative for sleep.

When I transcribed this Prayer, it was my purpose to have made this book 3 a Collection.

73.

SCRUPLES.

Lord, who wouldst that all men should be saved, and who knowest that without thy grace we can do nothing acceptable to thee, have mercy upon me. Enable me to break the chain of my sins, to reject sensuality in thought, and to overcome and suppress vain scruples ; and to use such diligence in lawful employment as may enable me to support myself and do good to others. O Lord, forgive me the time lost in idleness ; pardon the sins which I have committed, and grant that I may redeem the time misspent, and be reconciled to thee by true repentance, that I may live and die in peace, and be received to everlasting

1 Quoted in the Life, ii. 43. for the Second Sunday in Lent.

8 The following prayer, which is 3 A parchment book containing

not in the Pembroke College MSS., such of these Prayers as are marked is an ' accommodation ' of the Collect transcribed. Note by G. Strahan.

happiness

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