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 N. B. On Friday I read the first of Mark, and Clarks sermon on Faith.

On Saturday I read little, but wrote the foregoing account, and the following prayer.

Almighty God, by whose mercy I am now about to com memorate the death of my Redeemer, grant that from this time I may so live as that his death may be efficacious to my eternal happiness. Enable me to conquer all evil customs. Deliver me from evil and vexatious thoughts. Grant me light to discover my duty, and Grace to perform it. As my life advances, let me become more pure, and more holy. Take not from me thy Holy Spirit, but grant that I may serve thee with diligence and confidence ; and when thou shalt call me hence, receive me to everlasting happiness, for the sake of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Apr. 10, near midnight.

101.

EASTER SUNDAY, April n.

I had more disturbance in the night than has been customary for some weeks past. I rose before nine in the morning, and prayed and drank tea. I came, I think, to church in the begin ning of the prayers. I did not distinctly hear the Psalms, and found that I had been reading the Psalms for Good Friday. I went through the Litany, after a short disturbance with toler able attention.

After sermon I perused my prayer in the pew, then went nearer the altar x and being introduced into another pew, used my prayer again, and recommended my relations with Bathurst and Boothby 2, then my Wife again by herself. Then I went

Priestley, who began to keep a diary &c., in the Gentleman's Maga-

of his studies, act. 22, and continued zine for 1785, p. 731, objects to

it till within three or four days of the use of the word altar by ' so

his death, aet. 7 1 Priestley's diary exact a philologist and so rational

shared the fate of all his collections, a protestant.' Johnson in his Dic-

and became the victim of the savages tionary gives as the second meaning

of one of our great cities.' Patti- of altar, 'the table in Christian

son's Casaubon, 2nd ed., p. 89. churches where the communion is

1 Johnson's pew was in the gal- administered.'

lery. The reviewer of his Prayers, * Miss Hill Boothby. Ante, p. 18.

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