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Rector of Elford, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Oxford.

OXFORD:

JOHN HENRY PARKER.

MDCCCXL.

A

DISCOURSE

CONCERNING

PRAYER:

ESPECIALLY OF FREQUENTING THE

Dayly Publick Prayers.

En Two Parts.

BY SYMON PATRICK, D. D.

NOW LORD BISHOP OF ELY.

LONDON-

Printed by W. Bowyer for John Meredith, in Trust for
Royston and Elizabeth Meredith:

And are to be sold by Tho. Chapman at the Angel in
Pall-Mall, over against St. James's Square. 1705.

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THE

HE Volume in the Reader's hands, although complete in itself, may be looked upon as an appropriate companion to a Treatise on Repentance and Fasting,. which has been recently put forth by the same Publisher

Both works are from the pen of Bishop Patrick; both were written in support of principles and practices which, of first-rate

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importance in themselves, were, nevertheless, gradually falling out of sight in his day; both are characterized by the same dutiful love of the Church, and the same desire to inculcate a strict obedience to her ordinances; both are designed to lead men to the "old paths" of Catholic truth, the "good way" of Scripture, and Scriptural antiquity; and both (if we may judge by the number of former editions) were instruments of recalling God's servants in a former age to the discharge of duties, towards which the popular religion of the time seems to have been indifferent.

As regards the former of these treatises, no Churchman, perhaps, will be found to think its republication unnecessary, since if ever there was an age which had need to be reminded of our Lord's exhortations to mortification, self-denial, and the taking up our cross "daily," that age must be our own, seeing that in all classes of society,

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