Essays and meditations on various subjects / By a physician [i.e. J. Mackenzie].
- James Mackenzie
- Date:
- 1762
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Essays and meditations on various subjects / By a physician [i.e. J. Mackenzie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 108 ] : knowledge diffufed a love of virtue and ~ piety, and of every perfon who did all the good, and prevented all the evil in his power! Their time and their ta- lents were wifely employed. Death does not approach them like the king of terrors, but like a friend, who comes to releafe them from the vanity and forrows of this world, and to charm their minds with a profpec& of that e- verlafting peace and joy, of which they _will foon be put in poffeffion. Eternal God, father and ruler of the univerfe, take meunder thy mighty protection, and | enable me, for the remaining part of my time, by a conftant practice of righte- oufnefs, charity, and piety, to acquire fuch habits of loving and ferving thee, that the end of my gays may be the end of my afflictions, and. the begin- ning of that ferenity and joy, which is the everlafting portion of thy children. MEDI-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33005291_0122.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
