APPENDIX. 249 fore make me holy, as my God is holy, in all manner of conversation and godliness. Forsake not the work of thy hands, but keep me by thy power through faith into salvation, for the sake of Jesus Christ, in whom make me accepted, and partaker of the riches of thy grace, which bath abounded towards me, in all wisdom and prudence. Amen. (2.) SIR EDWARD HARLEY'S RETROSPECT ON THE COMPLETION. OF HIS FIFTIETH YEAR. At Brompton Brian, 21 Oct. 1674. I am this day, through divine patience, 50 years old. O Lord ! I am not worthy the least of thy mercies. I have recorded some of the manifold loving kindnesses of the Almighty in the memorial of my last anniversary. This year is now concluded to me in health, though it hath in every month of it been full of sorrow. Many dear friends taken away. After the death of Sir Robert Moray and my cousin Froysell, it pleased God to put an end to the pilgrimage of my brother Sir Robert Harley, Nov. 1673. In January at Westminster I was visited sharply with the griping of the gutts, but when I was under sentence of death it pleased God to cheer and raise me up. I returned from the Parlement in March. Theweather being very bitter, I had no harm in that journey, but immediately after return, I was visited with the gout in both feet and hands. This fit was most painful and of longest continuance, yet now I am, blessed be God ! comfortably free from that distemper. In November dyed my good friend Mr. Thomas Doughtie. In April, Sir Edward Massie ; and, in a sad manner my eosin, Bartholomew Beal. In August, my dear neice Frances FitzJames, of the small-pox. Since that, my worthy friend Mr. Thomas Treherne, and my eosin Reads wife, both dead in the same day ! and nowmy sister Palmer ; while I, a poor unprofitable worm, am still spared. O, my God ! the fif- tieth year was in Canaan the year.of Jubilee. Oh ! that this may be to me the acceptable year of the Lord ! wherein I may be released from the miser- able chains of sloth and carelessness, which render me so vile in the eyes of the glory of my God. Lord ! work in me for this same thing, by thy CAMD. SOC. 2 K
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