DEVOTIONS.

SECOND PART.

The Four GOSPELS in One,
Broken into

LESSONS.

With

RESPONSORIES:

To be used with the

OFFICES.

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He Author, before experience bad fuggested new thoughts, defign'd to com prize his Devotions in one Book But, Seeing great variety was requifite, to avoid that dryness with which often repetition nfes to dull our Prayers; and finding one Volume uncapable of great variety, unless of a bulk too big, at character too little for conve nce: He refolo'd to divide A 3

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the Whole into Three Parts whereof himself liv'd to let out the First, and finish the Second in the manner you fee; the Third, confifting of Prayers for all occafions, fram'd by an intimate Friend according to his directions and overlookt by him felf, waits yet an opportunity o coming forth. Mean time you have here the Second part, con taining the Life of our B. SA VIOUR in the words of th Evangelifts themselves, and d gested out of all Four into or continued Hiftory; that th whole feries may be clearly difcern'd, and no emphatical e preffion or circumstance inc

of the facred Historians loft: following herein the much approv'd example of fome of our own, as well as our Neighbour Divines; of a late one, of whom, at Paris, this feems a Tranflation. He meant it for Leffons to his Offices: whence, to render it more clear to the underfranding, and more affective to the will, breaking the Context into fit periods, He fuited every one with Refponfories; which, being entirely his own work, are Printed in a different Letter, that who so pleases may read the facred Story without interrupti The Genealogies we find mitted, and fome part of the

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