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THE

PRIVATE MEDITATIONS

AND

PRAYERS

ог

THE RIGHT REVEREND

THOMAS WILSON, D. D.

LORD BISHOP OF SODOR and MAN,

F. AND C. RIVINGTON, BOOKSELLERS TO THE SOCIETY
FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE,
No. 62, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD;

AND C. DILLY, POULTRY, LONDON.

M DCC XCII.

0933

11-9-43

Маддо
10-9.43

48599

THE

PREFACE.

'HE truly Reverend Doctor THOMAS WILSON, fifty

eight years Bishop of Sodor and Man, was bleffed with the spirit of prayer in a very uncommon measure: of which his Sacra Privata, or Private Meditations and Prayers, are an eminent inftance.

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