Rector of Elford, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Oxford.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON & Co., 200, BROADWAY.

M DCCC XLI.

WASHINGTON EIGHTS LIB.

THE Volume in the Reader's hands, although complete in itself, may be looked upon as an appropriate companion to a Treatise on Repentance and Fasting, which has been recently put forth by the same Publisher.

Both works are from the pen of Bishop Patrick; both were written in support of principles and practices which, of first-rate importance in themselves, were, nevertheless, gradually falling out of sight in his day; both are characterized by the same dutiful love of the Church, and the same desire to inculcate a