PRAYERS

FOR HOUSEHOLD USE,

WITH A FEW

HYMNS AND OTHER POEMS.

O heavy laden soul! kneel down and hear
Thy penance in calm fear:

With thine own lips to sentence all thy sin;
Then, by the judge within

Absolved, in thankful sacrifice to part

For ever with thy sullen heart,

Nor on remorseful thoughts to brood, and stain
The glory of the Cross, forgiven and cheered in vain.

OXFORD,

PRINTED BY W. BAXTER,

FOR J. PARKER;

AND C. AND J. RIVINGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD,
AND WATERLOO PLACE, LONDON.

1828.

SEMINARY,
NEW YORK,

-IFT FROM

HENRY DAY, Esq.

V564
1828

PREFACE.

THE publication of this little volume can hardly require an apology. Most of what is here said may be found in Bp. Wilson's maxims, and the rest in other books: there is not any thing new in substance on any of these pages, but there is something new in the fashion and form of them, which may render them useful, where a better book might have been rejected. The following remarks are submitted to each reader, as hints to be followed up for himself.

In the present state of the world, it does not appear to be what is commonly called belief that is so much wanted, as Christian love, and a continual sense of the obligations consequent upon that love. There is a belief which exists almost without hope, and without an adequate sense of the value of immortal souls-a belief that has little to do with Chris

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