The Reformation · compiled c. 1600–1626; published 1648
Private Prayers
Preces Privatae
Lancelot Andrewes · 1555–1626
What it is
A private prayer book woven almost entirely from scripture and the liturgies of East and West, arranged by the days of the week and the hours.
Why it lasted
Found stained with its author's tears after his death, and one of the most influential prayer books in Anglican devotion.
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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