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Harrogate to Boroughbridge, 8; from thence to Catarric, 22; to Gretabridge, 15; to Bows, 6; to Brugh in Westmoreland, 12; to Kirkby-Steven, near Wharton-Hall, 6 Cleator, 6:75 miles. I dined at Catarric on a hot pigeon-pye juft drawn, and ale of one ear, that is, admirable, (as Rabelais means by the phrafe, "We had wine of one ear," alluding to the one shake of the head to the right shoulder, when a thing is excellent); and I gave the horses another feed of corn at Bows, the George, kept by Railton the Quaker (an excellent inn, and the master of it an inftructive and entertaining orator). I mention these things for your benefit, reader, that you may know where to ftop to advantage, if you fhould ever ride over the fame ground I went that day. (13),

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(13) While I waited at the inn, till the horfes had eaten their corn, the landlord brought me a paper, drapt, by a lady he knew not, fome days before at his houfe. He added, it was a curiofity, and worth my ferious confideration.

A MORNING and EVENING PRAYER.

"Almighty and ever-living God, have mercy on "me. Forgive me all my fin, and make my beart ane, "to fear thy glorious fearful Name, Jehovah. Guide me with thy counfel, I beseech thee, and be the ❝ftrength of my life and my portion for ever. "O`Lord Jehovah, defend me from the power and "malice, the affaults and attempts, of all my ad

verfaries,

When I came to Mifs Spence's door, I fent in my name by a fervant, and immediately Maria came out herself to welcome me to Cleator. She told me he was glad to fee me, and extremely obliged to me, for riding fo many miles out of my way, to travel up with her to London; but as she had never been further from home than Harrogate, and was afraid of going fuch a journey by herself, the writ to me, in hopes curiofity and my great complaifance to the ladies, might induce me to take Cleator in my way to town, tho' fo much about: but as fo many weeks had paffed fince the came away from the Wells, and he heard nothing of me, fhe had laid afide all expectation of my coming. This made the vifit the more pleafing.

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"versaries, and keep me in health and safety, in peace "and innocence. These things I afk in the name "of Jefus Chrift, thy Son, our Lord; and in his "words I call upon thee as, Our Father, who art in "heaven, &c."

Obfervations relative to Mifs Dudgeon's Prayer.

This prayer pleafed me very much. In the most beautiful manner, as well as in a few words, it expreffes all we need afk from heaven; and if Mifs Dudgeon of Richmondshire was the compofer of it, as I have been affured fince, upon enquiry, I here place it to her honour, as a monument of her piety and fenfe; and in hopes the illuftrious of her fex will ufe fo fhort and excellent a form of devotion in their clofets morning and night.

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In answer to this, I replied, that if I had got her letter fooner, I would have been with her long before: but that was not poffible, as I had been at a little lodge and farm of mine in the northern extremity of Weftmoreland, to fettle things there, and returned

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There is an expreffion in this prayer, which for fome time I could not well comprehend the meaning of; that is, Make my heart one: but on confidering it, I found it fupported by the greatest authorities.

Among the fayings of Pythagoras, one is, be fimply thyfelf. Reduce thy conduct to one fingle aim, by bringing every paffion into fubjection, and acquiring that general habit of felf-denial, which comprehends temperance, moderation, patience, government, and is the main principle of wisdom. Be fimply thyfelf, and fo curb defire, and reftrain the inclinations, and controul the affections, that you may be always able to move the paffions as reafon fhall direct. Let not every foremost fancy, or every forward appearance, have the leaft mastery over you; but view them on every fide by the clear light of reafon, and be no further influenced by the imaginations of pleasure, and apprehenfions of evil, than as the obvious relations and nature of things allow. Let the refult of a perception which every rational mind may have of the effential difference between good and evil, be the cause or ground of obligation. This will add greatly to quiet, and be productive of much real felicity. It will render every prefent condition fupportable, brighten every profpect, and always incline us more to hope than to fear. This is the doctrine of Pythagoras.

I likewife find that David expreffes the fame thought in the 86th Pfalm, ver. II. which is rendered in the Bible tranflation, Unite my heart to fear thy name;-in the Common-Prayer Book, O knit my heart unto thee,

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to Harrogate but yefterday, when I had the honour of receiving your letter, and upon reading it, set out at day-break this morning to kiss your hand, and execute any commands.

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that I may fear thy name: but the Hebrew is, " Make my beart one, to fear thy name;" meaning, Let the fear of thee be the one ruling difpofition of my foul, in oppofition to the double-minded man, which the Hebrew elegantly expreffes by a heart and a heart; one that draws to the riches, pleasures, and honours of this world; and another to the practice of all virtue.

As to the other part of the prayer, which has the words-glorious-fearful-Jehovah; whereas in the 86th Pfalm it is only faid-" to fear thy name;" the author certainly took them from the 28th chapter of Deuteronomy, ver. 58. The defign of the dreadful threatnings in this chapter fet before the people, is there thus exprefied,-that thou mayeft fear this glorious and fearful name, JEHOVAH THY GOD; (in our tranflation, the Lord thy God). And therefore I think thefe words are very finely ufed in this prayer.

"It is amazing to me (fays the Rector of St. Mabyn), that throughout the Bible, the tranflators have every where changed the word Jehovah for the word Lord, when God himself gave the word Jehovah as his name to be uttered; and as in this word the whole myftery of the Jewish and Chriftian difpenfations feem to have been wrapped up.

Say to the people, Ami Jehovah. I am Jehovah. Ye fhall know that I fehovah am your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egygtians. Exod. vi. 6, 7. And Deut. vi. 4. Hear, Ŏ Ifrael, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.

Then as to this word's comprehending the two difpenfations, a good writer obferves that, though God was known to his true worshippers by many other

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§. 2. Here an excellent hot fupper was fing the brought in, and after it, Mifs Spence faid, evening at fhe was furprized to hear I was an inhabitant first night of Westmoreland, as fhe had never heard of

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names, as God Almighty, the High God, the Everlafling God, &c. yet Jehovah was his one peculiar name; a name which he had appointed to himself, in preference to all others, and by which he declared by Mofes he would be diftinguifhed for the time to come.

And as of all the names of God, this feems to be the most expreffive of his effence, as it can only be derived from the root which fignifies to be, and denotes the ene eternal felf-exiflent Being, from whom all other things derive their being, and on whom they muft depend; -As the word does likewife fignify makes to be what was promifed or foretold, and by fuch meaning declares, as often as the word is repeated, that Jehovah our God is not only felf-exiftent, and the Creator of the world, but Him in whom all divine prophecies and predictions centre ; it follows, in my opinion, that we should utter this awful name in our addreffes to God, and not, like the Jews, through a fuperftition omit it, and ufe another instead of it"

N. B. The Rector of St. Mabyn is the Rev. Mr. Peters; and the paffage is to be found in an excellent Preface to the octavo edition of his admirable Differtation on the Book of Job, in reply to that part of the Divine Legation of Mofes demonftrated, in which the author, my Lord of Gloucefter, fets himself to prove, that this book is a work of imagination, or dramatic compofition, no older than Ezra the prieft, whom he fuppofes to be the writer of it, in the year before Chrift 467, or the year 455, in the 20th year of the reign of Artaxerxes, king of Perfia, when Daniel's feventy weeks begins; that is, the period of 490 years, that were to be fulfilled before the paffion of our Saviour. And further,

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