PRINTED BY JOSIAH FLETCHER, NORWICH.

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Ir gives me pleasure to acknowledge the friendly contributions I have received towards the completion of my long promised little volume. My thanks are due to the Rev. Dr. Collyer, of Peckham, who sent me the beautiful Reflection in page 86; to J. Dalton Esq. of the Priory in the same place, and to Messrs.Machon, Tyler, Bland, and Goring, attendants at Surry Chapel, who had treasured up some of the choice observations of its venerable minister. The notes, however, of these respectable and obliging individuals, were small in comparison of the voluminous manuscripts of Mr. Brookman of West Square, who for some years was in the constant habit of

taking in short-hand the prayers and discourses of Mr. Rowland Hill. He has preserved much that would otherwise have been lost, and readily favoured me with the use of his papers, that I might select from them any thoughts or devotions which I should think useful for my proposed compilation. Out of these materials, and my own resources, I have formed the collection now presented to the public, which I have endeavoured to edit in the way I conceived most conducive to the reputation of my beloved relative and the edification of my readers. The prayers furnished by Mr. Brookman were very numerous; I have however given only a few of them entire, preferring to select parts illustrative of some of the leading subjects of Mr. Hill's devotions, which I have prefixed to them as titles. I have revised and arranged for publication both these and the Reflections, in the manner I conceived most congenial to the mind of their author; and if in some

parts there may appear a lack of editorial neatness, it will be pardoned, in consideration of my desire to preserve as much as possible, the powerful though sometimes peculiar phraseology of my revered relation. The encouraging reception given to my Life of my beloved guardian, makes me venture to apply to this memorial of his piety and devotion, the quaint but expressive lines of his favourite John Bunyan, prefixed to the second part of the Pilgrim's Progress :

"Wherefore, my second part, thou need'st not be
Afraid to shew thy head: none can hurt thee,
That wish but well to him that went before:
'Cause thou com'st after with a second store
Of things as good, as rich, as profitable
For young or old, for stagg'ring and for stable."

Acle, near Norwich,

February 29th, 1836.