Tracts for the Times

THE GREEK DEVOTIONS OF BISHOP ANDREWS,
TRANSLATED AND ARRANGED.

I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem;
Which shall never hold their peace day nor night.

[Number 88]

[pp77-78]

A Deprecation

O LORD, Thou knowest, and canst, and willest
the good of my soul.
Miserable man am I;
I neither know, nor can, nor, as I ought
will it.
Thou, O LORD, I beseech Thee,
in Thine ineffable affection,
so order concerning me,
and so dispose,
as Thou knowest to be most pleasing to Thee,
and most good for me.
[Thine is]
goodness, grace;
love, kindness;
benignity, gentleness, consideration;
forbearance, long suffering;
much pity, great pity;
mercies, multitude of mercies;
kind yearnings, deep yearnings;
in passing over,
in overlooking, in disregarding;
many seasons, many years;
[punishing] unwillingly, not willingly;
not to the full,
not correspondently,
remembering mercy in wrath,
repenting of the evil,
compensating doubly,
ready to pardon,
to be reconciled,
to be appeased.

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