THOUGHTS ON PRIVATE DEVOTION. CHAP. I.-Advantages of Private Prayer MORNING PRAYERS FOR EVERY DAY IN THE 13 25 48 62 EVENING PRAYERS FOR EVERY DAY IN THE 102 103 105 107 Against Wandering Thoughts in Prayer For a right Use of Time 120 121 For God's Direction 122 On Communion with God in Secret On the Willingness of the Saviour God, the Friend of his People For the Sabbath On the Loss of Beloved Friends 142 143 144 145 146 147 ΤΟ THE QUEEN. MADAM, WITH the most profound humility and respect I have ventured to solicit your Majesty's permission to dedicate to your Majesty this little Manual of Private Devotion. As the work is designed to en courage and promote the more frequent exercise of a duty, the devout observance of which, although exceedingly necessary and important, is too much forgotten and neglected by Christians in general, it is presumed that its publication may not be altogether unseasonable. The great regard your Majesty has at all times shewn to the practice of virtue and religion, while it sheds a lustre upon your exalted character, and diffuses around every class of your Majesty's subjects the most |