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Chapter XI

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My friends! let us fly
To Jesus our King;
And still as we hie,
Of grace let us sing.
Through pleasure and pain,
If faithful we prove,
For cots we shall gain
A palace above.

FINIS.

TURNBULL AND SPEARS, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

Footnotes:

{208} Proverbs xxiii. 31, 32.

{221} Mourne consists chiefly of a range of high mountains in the north of Ireland.

{225} Isaiah i. 18.

{233a} Proverbs xxxi. 10.

{233b} Gossamers are the fine down of plants or the slender threads of insects, which are frequently seen to glide through the sunny atmosphere.

{234} Proverbs xxx. 28.

{235} Job viii. 13, 14.

{237a} Ezek. xxxiii. 8, 9.

{237b} Ephes. ii. 1-8.

{238} St Paul, 2 Cor. xii. 16.

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