Excerpt from Family and Private Prayers
This Manual of Devotion for the family and closet, will be found, it is thought, peculiarly suited to the taste and feelings of the pious in our own communion. The principal part of it is taken from our Book of Common Prayer, and the rest, which will appear new to many, is almost entirely drawn from the offices for special occasions in the Liturgy of the Church of England. Two or three of the thanksgivings, from a different source, are written so much in the same style and spirit, as not to alter the cast of the work; and frequently the compiler himself has thrown in such short petitions, or connecting clauses, as were necessary to give a proper fulness to some defective parts, and preserve the harmony of others. Wherever the prayers were complete in themselves, he has generally transferred them as they stand; wherever they were too brief and imperfect, he has combined the substance of two or three, or collected the scattered expressions relating to any particular subject, so as to make one full and comprehensive prayer. But there has been in all cases a studied regard to the general form and character of the Liturgy, the several parts of penitence, supplication, intercession, thanksgiving, and praise being kept distinct.
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