SUPPLICATORY ADDRESSES TO THE ONE EVERLIVING AND TRUE GOD, To which are added a few HYMNS, EXTRACTED FROM THE PAPERS. OF THE LATE WILLIAM RUSSELL, ESQUIRE. REVISED AND EDITED, AGREEABLY TO HIS WISHES, THEOPHILUS BROWNE, M. A. ̓Αλλὰ μάργον τί μοι δοκει ειναι, και ὡς ἀληθῶς Quid prius dicam solitis Parentis Unde nil majus generatur ipso, Nec viget quicquam simile aut secundum. Plat. Alcib. 2. Hor. GLOUCESTER: PRINTED FOR J. WASHBOURN AND SON; And R. HUNTER, St. Paul's Church-yard, LONDON. 1818. ΤΟ THOMAS RUSSELL, Esq. AND MRS. SKEY, SON AND DAUGHTER OF THE PIOUS AND WORTHY AUTHOR, THE FOLLOWING DEVOTIONAL EXERCISES, IN WHICH HE GREATLY DELIGHTED, ARE, WITH AN ANXIOUS DESIRE TO KEEP ALIVE IN THEIR FAMILIES, AMONGST THEIR FRIENDS, AND IN THE WORLD, THE SAME FLAME OF ACTIVE PIETY WHICH GLOWED IN HIS BREAST, DEDICATED BY THEIR OBLIGED HUMBLE SERVANT, THE EDITOR. INTRODUCTION. Prous and amiable characters appearing on the stage of human life may be compared to those verdant spots which occasionally occur in the trackless extent of a sandy desert. They afford the traveller a most welcome resting-place, in which he may take refreshment and find relief; and, from which, having recruited his strength and spirits, he may proceed with the greater ease on his dreary journey, and be the better enabled to accomplish the object which he has in contemplation. Were the deserts, which are found in the torrid regions of the earth, destitute of these refreshing verdures, it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to traverse more than some small angle of them; and even over inconsiderable tracts the wanderer might do irreparable injury to his health, and abridge the term in which b |