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better. On the whole, if ought that's here may be useful to any good Chriftian, and any ways tend to promote Piety, I fhall be better pleas'd than if I could have compos'd a Book on any other Subject, worthy to be dedicated in the Vatican: For I hope I am got on the right fide of the World, and am as indifferent to that, as that can be to me; which I have endeavour'd to exprefs in one of Jerom Vida's, Good and pious Prayer's directed ill, (with which I fhall take my leave of thee) addrefs'd by him to St. Stephen the Proto-Martyr, but I have taken the Liberty to turn it to him whom that Saint faw ftanding on the Right-Hand of God. The Lines are as follow;

Afpice præfens,
Da fraudis fcelerifque exortem ducere vitam,
Da contemnere opes, & vulgi gaudia, honores,
Et cafto ufque tuis operari pectore Sacris !

Thus imitated.

With Eyes of Pity, Saviour! me survey,
Be present to my Vows, and hear me when I

pray;

Grant me a Life from great Offences free,
And fuch as mayn't difgrace thy Truths and
Thee:

Give to contemn the Mifer's useless Store,
And Honours which the cheated World adore!
Pure be my Breaft from Malice or Deceit,
And thus, thus let me at thy Altars wait;
Till from thy dear-lov'd Temple I remove,
And joyn the happier blissful Quire above.

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Traditions, Loaves 16; Transfigur'd 7 Chrift ap-

pears;

Children 8, Divorce 9, Hire ", Chrift " Hofanna
hears.

The Marriage Scribes", Temples and

World's Decay:

Chrift's glorious " Coming at the laft Great Day;
Tho' firft betray'd", for Man's Offence he dies 27,
And does from conquer'd Death the Third glad
Morn arife 28

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