Horae Sacrae.

WHEN FIRST THINE EYES UNVEIL, GIVE THY SOUL LEAVE
TO DO THE LIKE; OUR BODIES BUT FORERUN

THE SPIRIT'S DUTY: TRUE HEARTS SPREAD AND HEAVE

UNTO THEIR GOD AS FLOWERS DO TO THE SUN:

GIVE HIM THY FIRST THOUGHTS THEN; SO SHALT THOU KEEP
HIM COMPANY ALL DAY, AND IN HIM SLEEP.

WALK WITH THY FELLOW-CREATURES: NOTE THE HUSH
AND WHISPERINGS AMONG THEM. NOT A SPRING
OR LEAF BUT HATH HIS MORNING HYMN EACH BUSH
AND OAK DOTH KNOW I AM. CANST THOU NOT SING?
O, LEAVE THY CARES AND FOLLIES! GO THIS WAY,
AND THOU ART SURE TO PROSPER ALL THE DAY.

HENRY VAUGHAN.
1695.

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Horae Sacrae.

Prayers and Meditations
for Private Use;

From the TWritings of the Divines
of the Anglican Church.

with

An Introduction

by the

Rev. John Chandler, M.A.

Vicar of Witley.

London:

James Burns, Portman Street.

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O write a recommendatory preface to a book of devotions is a somewhat perplexing task; it is a subject on which so much may be said, and yet so very little need be said. If there is a work which can recommend itself, one which it seems almost presumptuous

to speak for, it is a manual of this sort,- -a book of prayers-a guide to the presence-chamber of the Almighty-a collection of" words" for sinners to take with them, and turn to the Lord :-and though much may be written, and very profitably too, on the subject of prayer, its blessedness, its dignity, its efficacy, the comfort of using it, the danger of neglecting

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