OF

DAILY FAMILY PRAYER:

BEING

A SELECTION OF PRAYERS

FOR

EVERY MORNING AND EVENING IN THE WEEK,

FROM THE

BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER

OF THE

UNITED CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND IRELAND:

PREPARED FOR THE USE OF FAMILIES, ESPECIALLY IN THE
DIOCESE OF DOWN AND CONNOR.

BY RICHARD MANT, D.D., M.R.I.AEC

BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE.

THECA

" Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am
the midst of them."-Matt. xviii. 20.

"I exhort, therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, interces
sions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings and for all that
are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godli-
ness and honesty."-1 Tim. ii. 1. 2.

"Hold fast the form of sound words."-2 Tim. i. 13.

DUBLIN:

MILLIKEN AND SON, GRAFTON-STREET,

BOOKSELLERS TO THE

ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION;
AND J. G. & F. RIVINGTON, LONDON.

M.DCCC.XXXVI.

ADVERTISEMENT.

ANY profits, which may arise from the publication of this little Book, are appropriated to the ASSOCIATION FOR DISCOUNTENANCING VICE, AND PROMOTING THE KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICE OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION, which, upon the compiler's offer of placing the work at its disposal, readily undertook the publication, no similar compilation being on its list of devotional tracts, or being supposed to be in circulation in this country. That the present attempt may tend to further the holy and charitable purposes of the Association, the compiler earnestly hopes and prays. And a passing word may perhaps be permitted, by way of recommending the Association to the good will of the reader, as the forerunner of all other societies in this country for

the circulation of the Holy Scriptures, of the Book of Common Prayer, and of religious Tracts, among the poor, or for the institution and maintenance of Schools of gratuitous instruction; as distinguished from all others by its uniform attachment to the Established Church, its intimate connexion with her ministers, its maintenance of her principles of doctrine and discipline, and its catechetical instruction of her children; as having for forty-three years faithfully exerted itself in a truly Christian and Catholick spirit to the full extent of its means, for the religious improvement of "all men, and especially of them who are of the houshold of faith;" and as having been latterly compelled by the withdrawal of former sources of bounty to contract the sphere of its operations, and to incur the imminent risk of dissolution, unless the strenuous efforts of those, to whose benevolence it is naturally entitled, be efficiently put forth for its preservation.

DUBLIN, Nov. 17, 1835.

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

Introductory Address to Heads of Families

Concerning the following Forms of Prayer

Concerning the First Collect

Form of Prayer for Sunday Morning