A New Collection of Family Prayers and Offices of Devotion, for Various Circumstances in Life

A New Collection Of Family Prayers And Offices Of Devotion, For Various Circumstances In Life by Jenks, Ven, and Palmer. This devotional volume compiles morning and evening prayers for the Lord’s Day and for daily life, offering forms of worship suited to different family situations and occasions. It includes prayers for private devotion, family worship, and public rites, with sections labeled as Family Prayers (Morning and Evening on Sundays and weekdays) and Private And Occasional Prayers. The collection also presents a paraphrase of the Lord’s Prayer, and a broad array of prayers for aging, sickness, travel, marriage and childbirth, parenting, forgiveness, gratitude, and death. Prefaced by remarks on the utility of books of devotion, the work aims to guide households in reverent daily discipline and the exercise of practical holiness, shaping habit, virtue, and spiritual consolation across life’s varied circumstances.