THOMAS WILSON, D. D.. BISHOP OF SODOR AND MAN, ACCOMMODATED TO GENERAL USE. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED. LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY, LUKE XI. I. CAMBRIDGE, PRINTED AND SOLD BY WILLIAM HILLIARD, ....... 1804. PREFACE. THE truly Reverend Doctor THOMAS WILSON, fifty eight years Bishop of Sodor and Man, was bleffed with the spirit of prayer in a very uncommon measure; of which his Sacra Privata, or Private Meditations and Prayers, are an eminent inftance. They have hitherto been locked up from the world in an` expensive book; and are mixed throughout with fo much meditation and prayer, that can come properly from the clergy only, (to whom they are an invaluable treasure) as to unfit them for general use. They are now prefented to the public in a feparate vol 5865 97 JUN 26 1901 (RECAP) |