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FRANCIS & JOHN RIVINGTON,
ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE.
"O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no
more."
THESE words form a prayer of David, offered up under
circumstances and considerations of vast importance and
solemnity. The short continuance and vain show of this
present life-the frequent untimely suddenness of de-
parture; these reflections, connected with the necessity
and blessedness of preparation, drew forth from the im-
pressed spirit of the Psalmist the anxious petition of the
text. There is in the prayer a strong and impassioned
energy, so remarkable as to bring, in a manner, the sup-
pliant to view before us. David, having laid aside his
royal crown, and together with it the commanding aspect
of Israel's king, retired within some secret apartment of
his palace, sets himself to serious reflection and earnest
pleading with God. His thoughts turn not now on his
glorious encounter with the haughty giant of Gath,—far
other musings employ his careful mind; he finds his
level as a mere dying man among other dying men, and,
accordingly, he adapts this prayer to this manifest state
of the case, saying unto God in the 12th verse of the
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