The Spirit of Prayer and other Devotional Writings. By Hannah More.
With Essays, Sample Prayers, Religious Ejaculations, and a Course in Self-Examination.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
A Short Biography of Hannah More.
An Introductory Essay on Prayer.
I: The Necessity of Prayer Founded on Corruption of Human Nature.
II: The Duty of Prayer Inferred from the Helplessness of Man.
III: On the Efficacy of Prayer.
IV: The Advantages of Private Prayer.
V: A Few Directions for a Devout Discharge of this Important and Necessary Duty.
VI: On the Neglect of Private Prayer.
VII: Errors in Prayer.
VIII: On Perseverance in Prayer and Praise
IX: The Practical Results of Prayer Exhibited in the Life of the Christian in the World.
Morning and Evening Prayers, for Every Day in the Week.
An Introductory Meditation on Prayer.
Short Prayers for the Morning.
Short Prayers for the Evening.
Daily Morning and Evening Prayers.
Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday.
A Course in Self-Examination.
Rules for Self-Examination.
A Prayer before Self-Examination.
A Prayer at Self-Examination.
Morning. Evening.
General Questions.
Confession of Sins after Self-Examination.
Resolutions.
Prayers for Various Occasions.
Against Wandering Thoughts in Prayer.
For the Love of God.
For Faith.
For Holiness.
For Humility.
For Meekness.
For Resignation to the Divine Will.
For God’s Direction.
An Invocation to the Holy Spirit.
For the Graces of the Spirit.
For Spiritualized Affections.
Gratitude to God for Spiritual Blessings.
For Strength to resist Temptations.
For Watchfulness against Sin.
Confession of Sins.
For the Pardon of Sin.
For Repentance.
Under Spiritual Trouble.
For Patience under Afflictions.
In the prospect of Death.
Before receiving the Sacrament.
On Reading the Scriptures.
For a Right Use of Time.
For the Spread of the Gospel.
Before going a Journey.
Birth-Day.
New-Year’s Day.
Ejaculations.
Morning.
Before Prayer.
Before Reading the Scriptures.
On Going to Church.
In Conversation.
In Trouble of Mind.
In difficult Circumstances.
On any Loss.
In Temptation.
Against any besetting Sin.
On falling into Sin.
When Evil Entreated.
Devout Meditations.
On Communion with God in Secret.
On Prayer.
On the Willingness of the Saviour to receive the coming Penitent.
On the Love of the Saviour.
God, the Friend of his People.
On the Goodness of God.
On the Hindrances to a Holy Life.
On Christ as a Refuge in the Time of Trouble.
On Devoting Ourselves to the Service of Christ.
On the Sufferings of Christ.
For the Sabbath.
On the loss of Beloved Friends.
On Death.
On the Joys of Heaven.
Bibliography
From the Introductory Essay on Prayer:
“The success of prayer, though promised to all who offer it in perfect sincerity, is not so frequently promised to the cry of distress, to the impulse of fear, or the emergency of the moment, as to humble perseverance in devotion; it is to patient waiting, to assiduous solicitation, to unwearied importunity that God has declared that He will lend His ear, that He will give the communication of His Spirit, that He will grant the return of our requests. Nothing but this holy perseverance can keep up in our minds a humble sense of our dependance. It is not by a mere casual petition, however passionate, but by habitual application, that devout affections are excited and maintained, that our converse with Heaven is carried on. It is by no other means that we can be assured, with St. Paul, that “we are risen with Christ,”[1] but this obvious one—that we thus seek the things which are above; that the heart is renovated; that the mind is lifted above this low scene of things; that the spirit breathes in a purer atmosphere; that the whole man is enlightened, and strengthened, and purified; and that the more frequently so the more nearly we approach to the throne of God. We shall find also, that prayer not only expresses but elicits the Divine grace.”
[1] Colossians 3:1.
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