Exercises for Family and Secret Prayer: To Which Are Annexed Hints on the Common Practical Mistakes in Family Religion (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Exercises for Family and Secret Prayer: To Which Are Annexed Hints on the Common Practical Mistakes in Family Religion

There is a mechanical succession (if it may be called so) of the chief t0pics of prayer, most frequent and noticeable which is best illustrated perhaps by what is called the long prayer in the public worship. Adoration prepares the way for thanksgiving this rises in order from temporal bless ings to the mention of our rational and moral nature, and then passes into the copious theme which revelation compre heads. Next, the Speaker is led by the connecting thought of unworthiness in the subjects of these favours, to confes sion wile petition, in its various branches, completes the whole. The brevity of these family exercises allows noth ing of all this and considering the unhappy air of formal ity, which it gives to the prayers of the sanctuary, it is no subject of regret. As a work of daily devotions, this collee tion may be viewed as a continued act of religious comma nion; each division of which may therefore, with less im propriety, be somewhat confined in its train of thought.

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