Author : Benjamin Jenks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1330482255
Prayers and Offices of Devotion by Benjamin Jenks Pdf
Excerpt from Prayers and Offices of Devotion: For Families and for Particular Persons Upon Most Occasions My Dear Friends, It is especially for your sakes, and primarily for your service, that I publish this Manual of Prayers, fitted to the capacities of your minds, to the necessities of your souls, and to the several conditions and occasions of your lives. Notwithstanding all the books of devotion already extant, many of which are very useful and excellent in their kinds, and such as I should recommend to you, without offering any other, did those with which I am best satisfied, reach as far as I have designed here to go, and did not I think the strain of some too high for many of you, and the words and expressions of others that I have seen in your hands, too low and flat, or too obsolete, and improper, and which will rather offend than edify such as have their senses better exercised in these matters: I have come to the resolution of adding my contribution to the common stock: yet, not taking upon me so to correct or censure them that have gone before me, as to discourage any from making use of those helps which they find agreeable to their case, and efficacious to quicken their devotion: But leaving every one to consult their own sense, and profit and comfort in choosing and taking what best likes their particular gust, and what most furthers their pious designs; and to make no alterations also they please, even in the ensuing offices, for their own service, if they shall think fit to use them at all. Nor have I such a conceit of any thing that is my own, as to suppose it free from the weakness and defects which I can espy elsewhere; I doubt not but others may find as many faults here: Nay, I cannot think any thing of this nature to be so complete, but that the author himself, in tract of time, may see reason to add or subtract, to alter or amend many particulars: Indeed, I shall as soon expect to see a shoe made to fit every foot, as a particular Form of Prayer exactly to suit all the circumstances of every soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
