DEVOTIONAL VERSES;

Founded on, and Illustrative of

SELECT TEXTS OF SCRIPTURE.

BY

BERNARD BARTON.

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London:

PRINTED FOR B. J. HOLDSWORTH,

18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD.

M.DCCC.XXVI.

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INSCRIPTIVE SONNET,

To the Memory

OF

SAMUEL ALEXANDER.

Dear friend, and christian father! unto thee,

Few months gone by, my grateful thoughts were bent
These unelaborate verses to present,

For long, unwearied kindness shown to me:
But it hath pleased Him, who doth not see
As mortals do what most with good is blent,
Such fondly-purpos'd offering to prevent;
Let this, then, GRATITUDE'S MEMORIAL be!
No praise of man should mar the opening page
Of him whose volume treats of themes divine,
Nor needs thy cherish'd memory praise of mine;

Yet may thy bright example prayers engage
For faith, love, meekness, greenness in old age,
And every gift of grace so richly thine.

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PREFACE.

It was at one time the Author's intention to have published the following Devotional Verses without any prefatory Address: his choice of plan and subjects appeared to himself so plain and unpretending, that it seemed scarcely necessary to deprecate for his little volume the criticism, that a more elaborate performance might naturally be expected to elicit, but which a manual, so unassuming as the present, might, he hoped, quietly escape. It has, however, been suggested to him, that