XXX PREFACE TO earnestness, from increasing conviction of its value, she once more ventures to impress this last, important topic, on their attention. If, then, she has enlarged even to dif- fuseness on the subject of prayer, it is because she is fervently desirous to sug- gest it, as the surest counteractive of those many aberrations of heart and prac- tice but too visible amongst us. In some former publications, however, she had expatiated so largely on this inexhaustible topic, that, in order to avoid repetition, she has chiefly limited her present observ- ations on prayer to the errors which may prevent its efficacy, together with allu- sions to certain classes of character in whom these errors most abound. In taking her final leave of her readei.s, may she be allowed to express her grati- tude for their long and unwearied in- dulgence ; for a patience which the too frequent demands made on it could not exhaust ; for their candour in forgiving her bold remonstrances ; for their kind-
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