A discourse concerning prayer : and the frequenting daily public prayers . ; if they are indevout, we ought to bemore zealous ; if they are licentious, we ought o ^6 o o X. editors preface. to be more exemplary, nor let any man say, thepeople will not be prevailed upon. How knowwe what will be hereafter ? They who resist-ed one attempt, may yield unto another ; or ifthey yield not to a single instance, they may tomany, and more pressing. Certainly all recent experience goes to provethat wherever sound Church-principles are setbefore the people, and opportunities are offered,they are not slow t
A discourse concerning prayer : and the frequenting daily public prayers . ; if they are indevout, we ought to bemore zealous ; if they are licentious, we ought o ^6 o o X. editors preface. to be more exemplary, nor let any man say, thepeople will not be prevailed upon. How knowwe what will be hereafter ? They who resist-ed one attempt, may yield unto another ; or ifthey yield not to a single instance, they may tomany, and more pressing. Certainly all recent experience goes to provethat wherever sound Church-principles are setbefore the people, and opportunities are offered,they are not slow to avail themselves of them. Now such sound principles with respect toPrayer,public and private,—are exhibited plain-ly, forcibly and convincingly, in Bishop PatricksTreatise, and for this cause it is now reprinted. May the Reader have grace given him toprofit by it, and to feel that it is his boundenduty to inculcate the same principles in all whoare within the sphere of his influence. Elford , l&iO. -o r- INTRODUCTION he Design of this Book. -O. iRAYER is so considerable a part of aGodly life, and so great a means both towork, and to preserve, and increase all man-ner of godliness and virtue in us, that the an-cient Christians doubted not to call the verytop of all good things, the founda- St. Cbrysostom. tion, and the root of a useful life ;the fountain and the parent of inrmmerable bene-fits. Whence it is, that they have left us so manytreatises upon this subject; and that we find it O- -O o o Xii. INTRODUCTION. SO oft repeated in their sermons; which theytell us they did on purpose, that the souls oftheir people might receive not merely a lighttincture of this doctrine, but as St. Chrjsos. Horn. Chrysostoms phrase is, be deeplydyed with it. Unto whose pious labours whichgood men have imitated in all succeeding ages,if mine be now added in a small book upon thesame argument, I hope it will not be found alto-gether unprofitable, but contribute something t
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