OF

PREVAILING

OPINIONS AND MANNERS,

FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC:

WITH
1

Reflections on praper.

BY HANNAH MORE.

Let us make a stand on the ancient ways, and then look about
us, and discover what is the straight and right way, and walk
in it.
LORD BACON on Innovation.

I know not which is the greater wonder, either that prayer,
which is a duty so easy and facile, so ready and apted to the
powers and skill and opportunities of every man, should have so
great effects, and be productive of such mighty blessings; or that
we should be so unwilling to use so easy an instrument of pro-
ducing so much good.
BISHOP JEREMY TAYLOR.

The Fifth Edition.

LONDON:

IN THE STRAND.

THENEW YORK
PUBLIC LIBRARY

72865

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.
1897.

Printed by Strahan and Spottiswoode,
Printers-Street, London.

PREFACE.

Ir is with the sincerest satisfaction, and the most lively gratitude to God, that the writer of these pages is enabled to bear her feeble but heartfelt testimony, to the progress which religion has made, and is making, amongst us, especially in the higher, and even the highest, ranks of society.

At a period, therefore, abounding and advancing in almost every kind of religious improvement, she may be thought by those who would be looking for congratulation rather than caution, to have imposed on herself an invidious task, in choosing to dwell less on the triumphs of