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Excerpt from The Meditations of St. Augustine, His Treatise of the Love of God, Soliloquies, and Manual: With Select Contemplations
And now, 0 Father of mercies, and God of all comfort, perfect, 1 beseech thee, these gracious designs upon thy servant; possess me thoroughly with thy fear, that I may not dare to incur thy threatenings; and support me with the joy of thy salvation, that I may be filled with thy love, and cheerfully run the race that leadeth to thy gracious promises. Thou, O Lord, art my strength, my God, my refuge and only deliverer: 0 be thou pleased to inspire my soul with proper thoughts of thee: teach my tongue fit words to call upon thee acceptably; and enable my hands, and every member to do the thing that pleaseth thee. I know full well that there is one way of pacifying thy wrath, one offering which thy mercy will not reject. The sacrifices of God are a troubled spirit, a bro/sen and a contrite heart my God will not des pise. (ps. Li.
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