RESIGNATION.
In Two Parts.
My soul shall be satisfied even as it were with marrow and
fatness, when my mouth praiseth thee with joyful lips.
PSALM lxiii. 6.
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This was not intended for the public; there were many and strong reasons
against it, and are so still; but some extracts of it, from the few copies
which were given away, being got into the printed papers, it was thought
necessary to publish something, lest a copy still more imperfect than this
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of publication may be some excuse for it.
As for the following stanzas, God Almighty's infinite power, and
marvellous goodness to man, is dwelt on, as the most just and cogent
reason for our cheerful and absolute resignation to his will; nor are any
of those topics declined, which have a just tendency to promote that
supreme virtue: such as the vanity of this life, the value of the next,
the approach of death, &c.
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