sake, the ground which he had so lately pronounced good.

1072 Or by collision of two bodies grind

The air attrite to fire,

Attrite, fretted, galled; or by attraction, that universal tendency which all bodies have towards one another, from which a great many of the surprising phenomena of nature may be easily accounted for.

1074 Tine the slant lightning,

From the Saxon Tynan: tind, a candle; that is, to light or set on fire.

1086 What better can we do, than to the place Repairing where he judg'd us, prostrate fall

The same pride of heart that disposed our first parents to sin, lurks in our nature, and accompanies us in our most serious studies; while the same subtle enemy who beguiled Eve, is still eve at hand to instil poison, even through the medium of the sacred texts; upon which alone we can build our hopes of reconcilement to God, perseverance in well-doing, and final acceptance. 1093 Undoubtedly he will relent and turn From his displeasure;

I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. Luke, xv. 18.

Yet, gracious Father, plead thy sacred cause;

To thee the secrets of all hearts are known; There are, who oft have broke thy righteous laws; Have known thy will, yet have performed their

own;

Oh! be to such thy boundless mercy shown,

Enforce obedience by thy chords of love; Hear thou the pensive sigh, the anguish'd groan, Th' unequal conflict shall thy pity move,

And call down help divine from thee in heaven above. B. B. W.

END OF THE TENTH BOOK.

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BOOK XI.

For from the mercy seat above

And thou shalt make a mercy seat of pure gold; two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

And thou shalt put the mercy seat above the ark; and in the ark, thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

And there will I meet with thee, and I will commune with thee, from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims, which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment, unto the children of Israel. Exodus, xxv. 17, 21, 22.

Inspired,

which the spirit of prayer

But though we are not able to speak these desires, they are not concealed from God: he who searcheth the inmost recesses of human hearts, knoweth what is the mind of the spirit; he reads all these secret agitations of our spirits, which answer to the emotions of his; for he manages affairs for his saints, according to the gracious will and appointment of God: a circumstance which we cannot recollect without the greatest

pleasure, and the most cheerful expectations of receiving every suitable blessing in consequence of it, and in answer to these prayers which are presented to God under such influence.

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Deucalion, a son of Promotheus, who married and reigned over Thessaly in his reign the earth was covered with a deluge. When the waters had retired from the surface of the earth, they went to consult the oracle of Themis, and were directed to repair the loss of mankind, by throwing behind them the bones of their grandmother; by this was meant the stones of the earth, from which it became again peopled.

before the shrine Of Themis stood devout.

She was the first to whom the inhabitants of the earth raised temples. Themis is said to be the wife of Jupiter, and daughter of Coelus and Terra.

these sighs

And pray'rs, which in this golden censer, mix'd
With incense, I thy priest before thee bring,

While we prepare ourselves, with silent admiration, to attend the discoveries here opening upon us, let us rejoice in the symbolical representation of the intercession of Jesus, our High Priest, shadowed forth, in so beautiful and expressive a manner, by the angel standing at the altar with the golden censer and much incense. Behold how the prayers of all the saints ascend before God with acceptance! See the method we are to take, if we desire that ours should be

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acceptable to him; and, encouraged by such a view, let us offer them up, not only with humility, but with cheerful confidence, though we are conscious of their great unworthiness. Revelations. let me

Interpret for him, me his advocate,

My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not.. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And he is the propitiation for our sins and also for the sins of the whole world. John, ii. 1, 2.

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where with me

All my redeem'd may dwell in joy and bliss,
Made one with me, as I with thee am one.

That they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe thou hast sent me.

And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them; that they may be one, even as we

are one::

I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made. perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them as thou hast loved me. John, xvii. 21, 22, 23. he blew

His trumpet, heard in Oreb since perhaps

Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb; when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together; and I will make them hear my words; that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live