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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