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NECESSITY AND ADVANTAGE

OF

PUBLIC PRAYER,

AND

FREQUENT COMMUNION,

DESIGNED TO REVIVE PRIMITIVE PIETY.

BY WILLIAM BEVERIDGE, D.D.

Late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.

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NECESSITY

AND

ADVANTAGE

OF

Publick Prayer:

Designed to Revive

Primitive Piety.

BY

WILLIAM BEVERIDGE, D.D.

Late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph.

LONDON:

Printed for R. Smith, at Exeter- Change,

in the Strand. 1708.

PREFACE.

THE name of BISHOP BEVERIDGE is too well known in the English Church to need any formal introduction. Some of his smaller works have ever been held in so great esteem, that his eminent piety, as attested by them, lives in the affectionate remembrance of many, who have never learned to regard him in any character but that of a devotional writer. And this, without doubt, is as he would most earnestly have wished. He would have desired rather that his memory should be handed down among the names of those who died in faith, than that he should be invested with the learned dignity of a doctor in the Church. Yet the man who at of eighteen years composed a treatise on

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