Holy Willies Prayer
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holy willie's prayer “ahe godly in a pet to pray.”—pope. argument. holy willie was a rather oldish bachelor elder, in the parish of maue, and mud justly famed for that polemical chattering, whids in tippling orthodoxy, and for that spiritualized bawdry which refio liquorish devotion. in a sessional process with a gentleman in maue—a mr. gavin hamilton—holy willie and his priest, father auld, after full hearing in the presbytery of ayr, came off but sed best; owing partly to the oratorical powers of mr. robert aiken, mr. hamilton's sel; but chiefly to mr. hamilton's being one of the most irreproachable and truly respectable characters in the ty. on losing the process, the muse overheard him [holy willie] at his devotions, as follows:— o thou, who in the heavens does dwell, who, as it pleases best thysel', sends ao heaven ao hell, a' for thy glory, and no for ony gude or ill they've done afore thee! i bless and praise thy matchless might, when thousands thou hast left in night, that i am here afore thy sight, fifts an' grace a burning and a shining light to a' this place. what was i, or my geion, that i should get sic exaltation, i wha deserve most just damnation for broken laws, five thousand years ere my creation, thro' adam's cause? when frae my mither's womb i fell, thou mig