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"Sod.
daily
that thou haft
bleffed
any of
it
to
our good,
and
didft not fotfake
our
finful
Souls,
arid
give
us
over
to
the
blindnefs
of
our own Minds,
and
the hardnefs
of
our Hearts,
and
the flavery
of
our flefhly Defires
and
wills
:
How great
was
that Mercy,
which did
not
only
(pare
our Lives,
and
keep
us
out
of
Hell
while we
were
finning;
but
at
lift
convinced any
of
us
of
our
fin
and
mifery,
and
awakened
Our
fleepy Souls
unto
Re-
pentance,
and
made
us
know the vanity
of
this
world,
and
the
certainty
and
glory
of
the
Life
tó
come,
that
we
might know thee
and feek thee
our
End
and
hap
-
pinefs
1
How
great
was
thy Metcy,
which
opened
to
tis
the
myfteries of
thy Gofpel,
and
drew
its
to
thy.
Son,
as
the way
to Thee
!
But, alas,
we have
ill
requited
thee
fo'i
thy
Tove
l
Our
Original
Sin,
bath
been
too
fruitful
in
our
finful
lives
1
Our
Childhood
and
Youth
was (pent in
too
much
folly,
and
flefhly fenfuality
I
How
long`did
we
forget
our God
and
our
Souls,
our Death
and
our ever-
flue
;
as
if
we
had
no
life
to
live but
this,
and
we had
been made
to
live
and die
like
Beaffs
?
How'
long
did
we live
in
Ignorance
and Unbelief, and
little
knew
the nature
and
office,
our want,
and the
worth
and
riches
of
Chrift
?
How
long
did we live
before
thy
Love
in
Chrift
did
melt
us
?
and
before we knew
the
life
of
Faith? and
before we
were
brought to
the
ha-
tred of
Sin, and love
of
Holinefs
-?
and before that
ever
we loved thee
our
God,
and
the heavenly
King-
dom
above
this world
?
Alas;
we
were
deceived
by
the
vanities
here below,
and
followed the
finful
delires
of
the
Flefh,
and
refitted
thy
Spirit which moved
us
to
repent
and
turn
to
thee; And
fince we
contented to
thy holy
Covenant,
we
have
too
often
yielded
to
temptations,
and
loved thee
I'd
coldly
and ferved thee
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