The Lord my pasture shall prepare
The Lord my pasture shall prepare. Joseph Addison* (1672-1719).
From The Spectator, no 441, Saturday, 26 July 1712. It comes at the end of an essay beginning ‘Man, considered in himself, is a very helpless and a very wretched Being. He is subject every Moment to the greatest Calamities and Misfortunes.’ The great comfort is to trust in God, ‘one who directs Contingencies, and has in his Hands the Management of every Thing that is capable of annoying or offending us.’ Addison thought that Psalm 23 was very suitable for conveying such reassurance: ‘David has very beautifully represented this steady Reliance on God Almighty in his twenty-third Psalm, which is a kind of Pastoral Hymn, and...
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