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FOR

THE USE OF FAMILIES,

CHIEFLY SELECTED

FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS;

WITH A

Preliminary Essay:

TOGETHER WITH

A SELECTION OF HYMNS.

BY ALBERT BARNES.

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PHILADELPHIA:

PUBLISHED BY CLARK & RASER, 60 DOCK STREET,

DESILVER, JR. & THOMAS,

247 Market Street.

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Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1833, by JOHN C. CLARK, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsyl

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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following Selection of Prayers and Hymns, has been made for the aid of those heads of families who believe family devotion to be a duty, but who are deterred from it by diffidence, or by supposed want of ability. In the Preliminary Essay I have endeavoured to show the importance of the duty, and to meet the usual excuses made for neglecting it. One of these excuses is the plea of the want of ability. To meet that, as far as lies in my power, has been the main design of this selection. In meeting it, free use has been made of all the helps to family devotion within my reach. Alterations have been made where they were deemed to be desirable, and especially made to render the prayers as simple and direct as possible. A few additions have been made to adapt them to our times, and especially to Sunday Schools, and to the great efforts of Christian benevolence to fill the earth with the gospel. These additions are indicated at the beginning and the end by a small asterisk. And as praise may be made a most important, and interesting part of family devotion, a selection of Hymns has been added especially adapted to this design. As no such selections came within my reach, I have made this from various authors, and in the best manner that I was able, with the helps to which I have had access. The Selection has been

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