in general, leaving it with Omniscience to determine what is really such. If we look into the first of
Socrates
his Rules of Prayer, in which he recommends the above-mentioned Form of the ancient Poet, we find that Form not only comprehended, but very much improved in the Petition, wherein we pray to the Supreme Being that
his Will may be done:
which is of the same Force with that Form which our Saviour used, when he prayed against the most painful and most ignominious of Deaths,
Nevertheless not my Will, but thine be done
. This comprehensive Petition is the most humble, as well as the most prudent, that can be offered up from the Creature to his Creator, as it supposes the Supreme Being wills nothing but what is for our Good, and that he knows better than ourselves what is so.
L.