Tampere est : - / herfs ofter pr. 164 wanting. AN ORDER OF FAMILY PRAYER FOR EVERY DAY IN THE WEEK, AND FOR THE COMMEMORATION OF THE HOLY DAYS AND SEASONS OF THE CHURCH. Selected and arranged from the Bible, the Liturgy, and various ASSISTANT MINISTER OF TRINITY CHURCH, NEW-YORK. NEW-YORK: STANFORD & DELISSER. 637 BROADWAY. MDCCCLVIII. ENTERED, According to Act of Congress, in the year 1845, BY STANFORD AND SWORDS In the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New-York. то THE MEMBERS OF THE PARISHES OF CHRIST CHURCH, HARTFORD, CONN., GRACE CHURCH, NEW-YORK, AND TRINITY CHURCH, BOSTON, WITH WHOM THE AUTHOR WAS ONCE CONNECTED AS THEIR MINISTER, AND TO THE MEMBERS OF THE PARISH OF TRINITY CHURCH, NEW-YORK, AMONGST WHOM IT IS HIS PRIVILEGE NOW TO SERVE, This little Work is Ensc:íbed, WITH SENTIMENTS OF RESPECT, AFFECTION, AND GRATITUDE, AND WITH THE HOPE THAT IT MAY BE THE HUMBLE MEANS OF PROMOTING, WHAT HE HAS EVER EARNESTLY RECOMMENDED, FAMILY PRAYER. PRAYER IS A WORK OF THE SAME DIGNITY AND HONOUR WHEREIN THE ANGELS AND SAINTS OF HEAVEN THEMSELVES ARE EMPLOYED. IT IS AN ADVOCATE FOR THE GUILTY, A REDEMPTION FOR THE CAPTIVE, A REST FOR THE WEARIED, AND A COMFORT FOR THE SORROWFUL. IT IS OUR WATCHTOWER WHILST WE SLEEP, AND OUR SAFEGUARD WHILST WE ARE AWAKE. ST. GREG. NYSSEN. Hom. de Orat. PREFACE. THIS little volume makes no claim to originality, except that the arrangement of its parts may be considered as in some respects new. Several of the prayers indeed, are of my own composition, and many of the others have been altered and reconstructed from materials before existing. But my task has been principally that of selection from such books as King Edward's Primer, and the devotional works of Bishop Andrews, Bishop Cosin and Bishop Jeremy Taylor. I have been aided also by the excellent compilation of Family Prayers by the Rev. Dr. Hook, the admirable Vicar of Leeds, by the order of Family Prayer arranged in the form of collects by the Rev. William Edward Evans, Prebendary of Hereford, and more especially by two excellent works of laymen of the Church of England, viz. "Short Family Prayers" by William Soltau, Esq. and "Liturgia Domestica" by Arthur H. Dyke Acland. My object has been to bring together from various sources, what I have often desired to find, and what I therefore supposed might meet the wants of others, a collection of Family Prayers, which, in its arrangement and its language, should be in harmony with the Liturgy of the Church. In doing this I have not thought it important, or even desirable, to reduce the language of the an |