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confess to you, delivered up a prey to beasts? Ps. lxxiii. We are not ignorant, that this severity perfectly agrees with your divine justice; yet be pleased, O Lord, to remember, that the time for shewing your mercy is come. If the first progenitors of the human race did unhappily transgress your law; let your mercy now repair the injury in their wretched posterity. Be mindful that you created them to your own likeness. Extend then in pity, O God, your hand to them, and replenish them with your bounty. To this end, "Our eyes fixed on you, as the eyes of servants on the hands of their masters, (Ps. cxxii.) till you deign to have compassion on mankind, and save them by a plentiful redemption."
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