To which are added,
MEDITATIONS and PRAYERS
For SICK PERSONS.

By GEORGE STANHOPE, D. D.
Late Dean of CANTERBURY, and Chaplain in
Ordinary to His MAJESTY.

ABERDEEN:

Printed and Sold by J. BOYLE.

M. D C C. L X X I X.

To the HONOURED

MRS. JULIA SHALCROSSE,

OF

Hatfield Woodhall, in Hertfordshire.

MADAM,

T is not merely from an Ambition to make the moft public Profeffion of my Grati

tude, that I take the Confidence of prefenting You with this Book; but because I apprehend it, in a peculiar Manner fuitable to your Circumftances, and qualified for a favourable Acceptance. The conftant Strain of Piety, which animates the whole Compofition, will not fail to recommend it to fo Excellent and Devout a Perfon: And the many moving Reflections upon Afflicted Virtue are fo exactly calculated for thofe Trials, which the Divine Providence (always Wife and Good) hath thought fit to exercife you with; that as they paffed under my Pen, they frequently brought You into my Thoughts: You, Madam, who have fo great Occafion for, so just a Title to,

thofe