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vour, if you would make Westmoreland your way, and through Lancashire to Chefter road, that I may have your protection and guidance in this long 66 journey.

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"I am, Sir,

Cleator, fix miles to "Your humble fervant, the fouth-west of Wharton-Hall. "Maria Spence."

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This letter furprized me. Yes, dear creature, I said, I will make Westmoreland my way to London. At four in the morning I mounted my horfe, and rid to Cleator. I arrived there at fix in the evening, and had travelled that day 75 miles; to wit, from Harrogate to Boroughbridge, 8 from thence to Catarric, 22; to Gretabridge, 15; to Bows, 6; to Brugh in Westmoreland, 12; to Kirkby-Steven, rear Wharton-Hall, 6; to Cleator, 6: 75 miles. I dined at Catarric on a hot pigeonpye juft drawn, and ale of one ear, that is, admirable, (as Rabelais means by the phrase, "We had wine of one ear," alluding to the one shake of the head to the right fhoulder, 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 instructive and entertaining orator.)

I mention these things for your benefit, reader, that you may know where to stop to advantage, if you should ever ride over the fame ground I went that day. (13). When

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

A MORNING and EVENING PRAYER.

Almighty and ever-living God, have mercy on 66 me. Forgive me all my fin, and make my heart one, "to fear thy glorious fearful Name, Jehovah. Guide 6c me with thy counsel, I befeech 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 "adverfaries, and keep me in health and fafety, in

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

Obfervations relative to Miss Dudgeon's Prayer.

This prayer pleased 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

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When I came to Mifs Spence's door, I fet 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 fhe had never been further from home than Harrogate, and was afraid of going fuch a journey by herself, she 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 fhe heard nothing of me, fhe had laid afide all expectation of my coming. This made the vifit the more pleafing.

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fenfe; and in hopes the illuftrious of her fex will use fo fhort and excellent a form of devotion in their clofets mo.ning and night.

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 thyself,

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In answer to this, I replied, that I if 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

and so curb defire, and restrain the inclinations, and controul the affections, that you may be always able to move the paffions as reafons fhall direct. Let not every foremost fancy, or every forward appearance, have the least mastery over you; but view them on every fide by the clear light of reason, and be no further influenced by the imaginations of pleafure, 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 caufe 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. 11. which is rendered in the Bible translation, Unite my heart to fear thy name; in the Common-Prayer Book, O knit my heart unto thee, that I may fear thy name: but the Hebrew is, "Make my beari 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, plea

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

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fures, 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. 38. The defign of the dreadful threatnings in this chapter fet before the people, is there thus expreffed,-that thou mayeft fear this glorious and fearful name JEHOVAH THY GOD; (in our tranflation, the Lord thy God.) And therefore I think these 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 mystery of the Jewish and Christian dispensations feem to have been wrapped up.

Say to the people, Ami Jehovah. I am Jehovah. Ye shall know that 1 Jehovah am your God, which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians. Exod. vi. 6, 7. And Deut. vi. 4. Hear, Ö Ifrael, Jehovah our God is one Jehovah.

Then as to this word's comprehending the two difpenfations, a good writer obferves that, though Gad was known to his true worshippers by many other names, as God Almighty, the High God, the Everlasting God, &c. yet Jehovah was his one peculiar name;

a name