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hands, to be sanctified by thy Spirit and grace, and wrought up into a conformity to thy holy will in every thing: Lord, set up thy throne in my heart, write thy law there, shed abroad thy love there, and bring every thought within me into obedience to Thee, to the commanding power of thy law, and the constraining power of thy love. Keep through thine own name that which I commit unto Thee, keep it against that day when it shall be called for; let me be preserved blameless to the coming of thy glory, that I may then be presented faultless with exceeding joy.

All my outward affairs I submit to the disposal of thy wise and gracious Providence; Lord, save my soul, and then, as to other things, do what thou pleasest with me; only make all providences to work together for my spiritual and eternal advantage. Let all things be pure unto me, and give me to taste convenant love in common mercies; and by thy grace, let me be taught both how to want, and how to abound, how to enjoy prosperity, and how to bear adversity, as becomes a Christian; and at all times let thy grace be sufficient for me, and mighty in me, to work in me both to will and to do that which is good of thine own good pleasure.

And that in every thing I may do my duty, and stand complete in it, let my heart be enlarged in love to Jesus Christ, and affected with the height and depth, the length and breadth of that love of his to me, which passeth all conception and expression.

And as an evidence of that love, let my mouth be filled with his praises: worthy is the Lamb that was slain, to receive blessing and honour, and glory and power; for he was slain, and hath redeemed a chosen remnant unto God by his blood, and made them to him kings and priests. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and let all that is within me bless his holy name, who forgiveth all mine iniquities, and healeth all my diseases; who redeemeth my life from destruction, and crowneth me with loving-kindness and tender mercy; who having begun a good work, will perform it unto the day of Christ. As long as I live I will bless the Lord, I will praise my God while I have any being; and when I have no being on earth, I hope to have a being in heaven, to be doing it better. O let me be borne up in everlasting arms, and carried from strength to strength, till I appear before God in Zion; for Jesus' sake, who died for me, and rose again, in whom I desire to be found living and dying. Now to God the Father, Son, and Spirit, be ascribed kingdom, power, and glory, henceforth, and for ever. Amen.

THE

Divine Appointment and Obligation

OF

Capital Punishment,

WITH ITS BEARING ON THE

Recent Execution of Colored Persons,

AND THEIR

Religious Instruction.

By REV. THOMAS SMYTH, D. D.

Extracted from
The Southern Presbyterian Review.

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