PREFACE. T is manifeftly impoffible to prepare anything like a complete manual of private devotions for even a fingle class of Chriftians. So diverfified are our ftates of mind and degrees of fpiritual progrefs, -fo various our needs, difficulties, trials, infirmities, tranfgreffions, lapfes, relapses, -fo manifold are our mercies, and fo continually are fresh combinations of circumftances arifing to supply us with fresh fubjects for prayer or praise, that no fingle volume, nor indeed any number of volumes |