Date: 1762, 1868
"Hasten, Lord, the day of rest / From this indwelling sin, / Vindicate Thy church oppress'd, / And still enslaved within; / Burst our bonds, and let us go / From every thought of evil freed, / Pure in heart, and saints below, / And like our sinless Head."
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Date: August 1783
"Death broke at once the vital chain, / And free'd his soul the nearest way."
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Date: 1785
"In fetters confined Our body complains, / Oppress'd is our mind , With heavier chains."
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