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which caused his death. He was married to a lady, Jane Bryant, of Clack, Wiltshire, and had a family of three children. His friend John Gambold, a bishop of the Moravian Church, wrote a poem in honour of his memory. Cennick wrote some volumes of &quot;Village Discourses,&quot; and was the author of the &quot;Graces&quot; which are so often sung on public religious occasions. Before meat :

&quot; Be present at our table, Lord,&quot; &c.

After meat : -

&quot; We bless thee, Lord, for this our food,&quot; &c.

The latter has four additional lines that have ceased to be used :

&quot; Praise shall our grateful lips employ, While life and plenty we enjoy, Till worthy we adore thy name, While banqueting with Christ, the Lamb.&quot;

Other works by him were, &quot; His Life, written by himself,&quot; 1745 ; &quot; An Account of the late Riot in Exeter,&quot; 1745 ; &quot; A Letter to the little Children; especially to those who want to know how to go to heaven,&quot; fifth edition, 1782; &quot; Nunc Dimittis, lines written by John Cennick,&quot; 1757 ; &quot; An account of the Conversion of G. Lee, who was executed.&quot; One of his poems is a piece of thirty- six verses, describing elaborately his remarkable re ligious experience.

In it he says :

&quot; Dangers were always in my path, And fears of death, and endless wrath : While pale dejection in me reign d, I often wept, by grief constraiu d.



Through every day I wailed my fall Three years of grief exceeded all ! No rest I knew ! a slave to sin ! With scarce a spark of hope between.&quot;

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