PRIVATE

AND

FAMILY PRAYERS;

ADAPTED FROM THE

LITURGY OF THE UNITED CHURCH

OF

England and Ireland:

TOGETHER WITH

PORTIONS OF THE PSALMS

AND

A FEW OCCASIONAL PRAYERS.

BY THE REV. J. WENHAM, M.A.,

COLONIAL CHAPLAIN OF POINT DE GALLE.

Ceylon:

COTTA CHURCH MISSION PRESS.

MDCCCXXXVI.

ΤΟ

THE HONORABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND

CHARLES JAMES,

LORD BISHOP OF QUEBEC,

THIS LITTLE MANUAL OF PRAYERS

BRINGING BACK TO LIVELY RECOLLECTION

IN A DISTANT LAND,

HIS EMINENT PIETY AND DISINTERESTED

VIRTUES,

ASSOCIATED WITH THE NAMES OF

BISHOPS MOUNTAIN AND HOBART,

DRS. MILLS AND BERRIAN,

IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED,

BY

HIS EVER OBLIGED AND DUTIFUL

SERVANT AND CHAPLAIN,

JOHN WENHAM.

CBYLON, December, 1835,

THE Manual of Devotion here offered to the Public, is chiefly the reprint of a collection of Private and Family Prayers taken from the Liturgy of the Church of England by the learned and exemplary Rector of Trinity Church, New York.* In a preface to that valuable work, it is observed, "This Compilation was found more diffi"cult and laborious than might be supposed from the

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manner in which it is executed; but although it does "not fully equal the hopes and wishes of the Compiler, "yet he thinks that it must be useful and acceptable to "all who admire the elegant simplicity, the reverential 66 fervour, the noble elevation of our venerable Ritual, "and who have been warmed and animated by the evangelical spirit which pervades it."

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The truth of the first part of these remarks will readily be discovered by whoever should attempt a similar labour, and for any alterations and emendations of a work so admirably designed, a wish to carry farther into effect the modest intention of a highly esteemed friend, must be the present editor's chief apology.

Of the materials derived from our Book of Common

*The Rev. William Berrian, D. D.