A Collection of Family Prayers: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

A Collection of Family Prayers, credited to Samuel Palmer, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of A Collection of Family Prayers by Samuel Palmer. Read in English by LibriVox Volunteers That Family-prayer is an indispensible duty, and an important means of religion, are points which are here taken for granted. Among the many excuses commonly urged for the omission of this duty one of the most frequent is, the want of ability or courage to pray, in the presence of others. Where this is the case, the most natural and effectual answer is "Make use of forms." The lawfulness and expediency of so doing, I shall not attempt to prove. It has been admitted by the best of our divines, several of whom have published forms of devotion for the use of families. It is a happiness that we have so many volumes of family-prayers, both by Churchmen and Dissenters, suited to the different tastes and sentiments of different persons. There is yet, however, room for more, as variety is pleasing and edifying. The occasional prayers are new compositions, which are adapted to the most common occurrences, and which may easily be altered as circumstances vary. In all, great attention has been paid to plainness and simplicity, both, of thought and expression. - Summary by Extracted from Preface

Recording facts

• Recording title: A Collection of Family Prayers
• Author credits: Samuel Palmer
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 53
• Listed recording duration: 4:38:17

Catalogue topics

• Christianity
• prayer
• family prayer

Opening tracks: first 24 of 53

1. 01 - The Lord's Day Morning (Prayers by Mr. Matthew Henry from his Method of Prayer) — 8:00
2. 02 - The Lord's Day Evening — 9:22
3. 03 - General Intercession — 3:18
4. 04 - Monday Morning — 9:41
5. 05 - Monday Evening — 6:56
6. 06 - Tuesday Morning — 5:50
7. 07 - Tuesday Evening (By Mr Baxter from his Poor Man's Family Book) — 7:42
8. 08 - Wednesday Morning — 7:22
9. 09 - Wednesday Evening — 8:08
10. 10 - Thursday Morning — 9:08
11. 11 - Thursday Evening — 8:15
12. 12 - Friday Morning (By Mr. Bennett from his Christian Oratory) — 7:32
13. 13 - Friday Evening — 7:17
14. 14 - Saturday Morning (By Dr. Watts from his Guide to Prayer — 6:48
15. 15 - Saturday Evening — 8:15
16. 16 - The Lord's Day Morning (By Mr. Willison from his Treatise on the Lord's Day) — 6:31
17. 17 - The Lord's Day Evening — 10:03
18. 18 - Monday Morning — 8:27
19. 19 - Monday Evening — 8:04
20. 20 - Tuesday Morning — 6:14
21. 21 - Tuesday Evening (By Dr. Doddridge from his Address to the Master of a Family) — 8:58
22. 22 - Wednesday Morning (By Dr. Doddridge from his Rise and Progress) — 6:53
23. 23 - Wednesday Evening — 7:13
24. 24 - Thursday Morning — 6:50

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