...thereof. How ftrong were my defires then to be diflblved, and to be with Chrift for ever ! Ready to fay, now let thy fervant depart in peace, for mine eyes have feen thy falvation ! but I was not then accepted herein, neither was my mind afterwards free from fome fears and doubts,...

...lived fuch a pious life; and he died repeating thofe words of good old Simeon, "Lord, now letteft thou thy fervant depart in peace, for mine eyes have feen thy falvation." Be fides his Meditations among the Tombs, he wrote Reflections on a Flower Garden; a Defcant on Creation;...

...the internal revelation he had of Chrift could have made him fay with the fame affurance, Now Lord, let thy fervant depart in peace, for mine eyes have feen thy falvation. If the Apoftle had not been ftruck to the ground, and his eyes dazzled by outward light, 1m converfion...

...partake, and then in a fort of extacy, he pioufly fung his own requiem — " Lord now letteft thou thy fervant depart in " peace, for mine eyes have feen thy falvation"— after which, he reftored the Babe to his MotherA devout and venerable Prophetefs named Anna,*cbming...

...character will con-ftrain us to cry out with Simeon, in rapturous adoration, " Lord, now letteft thou thy fervant depart in -peace, — for mine eyes have feen thy falvation f." Every proper view of Him will, alfo, produce a fanctifying influence. For, " with open face, beholding...

...righteoufnefs dart into my foufl I am full of the coniblations of the Holy Ghoft: " Lord, now letteft thou thy fervant depart in peace; for mine eyes have feen thy falvation." Now the days of my mourning are ended.—In a trice I fhall be where Jefus is, there to behold his...

...to outlive it ! But, blefled be God, come what will of it, I can now fay, " Lord, now letteft thou thy fervant depart in peace, for mine eyes have feen thy falvation I" The Lord has not only javed me, a vile old finner, and my daughter Nance, but now my deaf Harry...

...their unanimity , and their importance in their integrity ; perhaps the author might have exclaimed with old SIMEON , " Lord now let thy fervant depart...in peace — for mine eyes have feen thy falvation ;" and put a period to his labors. But as neither of thefe necefiary ends feems as yet to have been...

...in the tem* pie, Luke ii. 25, — 30. And this made the old man fing, " and fay, " Now, lettcft thou thy fervant depart in peace; for mine eyes have feen thy falvation." OI have lived long enough, for now I have got Chrifl in my heart, and Chrift in my hands, who is my...

...Thanks be to God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jefus Chrifl ! Now, Lord, letteft thou thy fervant depart in peace, for mine eyes have feen thy falvation. Though I walk through the valley of the fhadow of death, I will fear no evil, fer thou art with me...