Almighty God, my Maker and Protector, who hast graciously sent me into this world to work out my salvation: enable me, by the assistance of Thy Holy Spirit, to root out all such unquiet and perplexing thoughts as may mislead or hinder me in the practice of those duties which Thou hast required. When I behold the works of Thy hands, and consider the course of Thy divine providence, give me grace always to remember that Thy thoughts are not my thoughts, nor Thy ways my ways. And while it shall please Thee to continue me in this world, where much is to be done, and so little to be known, teach me by the Holy Spirit to withdraw my mind from all unprofitable and dangerous inquiries, from difficulties vainly curious, and from doubts impossible to be solved. Let me rejoice in that light which Thou has imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, and humble confidence; and wait with patient expectation for the time, in which the soul that Thou receivest shall be satisfied with all knowledge, and welcomed to those mansions of eternal glory, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it even entered into the heart of man to conceive. Grant this, O Lord, for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.
- Samuel Johnson (+1784)
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