Family Prayers for Each Morning and Evening of the Week: With Prayers Adapted to Various Occasions; And Poems for Children and Young Persons; To Which Is Added, an Appropriate Selection of Psalms and Hymns (Classic Reprint)

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In the composition of these Prayers he has endeavoured to keep the inspired Volume con tinually in view, desiring that the sentiments which they breathe may correspond with its sacred truths; and considering the Bible as a devotional beck; consisting in a great degree, (especially the Psalms of David, and the Epistles of St. Paul) of humble adorations, - contrite acknowledgments of man's guilt, his depravity, and his helplessness, - earnest supplications for mercy, pardon, and peace, - and grateful praises and thanksgivmg to our redeeming Gon for all blessings, temporal and Spiritual, public and personal, he has frequently borrowed its sacred language, and he feels a confidence, that in the estimation of every Christian mind, the language of the bible will be deemed best calculated to promote spiritual worship, to comfort the heart.

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