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THE LORD'S PRAYER.

Preface

These Sermons on the Lord's Prayer were preached in Westminster Abbey, with the exception of two or three deHvered in St. Margaret's, Westminster. They are of the plainest and simplest character, written from week to week as duty required. I had no intention of publishing them, and in allowing them to appear in this form I yield to considerable pressure, partly because I have reason to hope that they were found useful by many when they were delivered, and partly because they were taken down in shorthand and have been printed by others without permission and with imperfect accuracy. They make no pretensions to depth, originality, or literary finish, but aim directly and solely at religious edification.

I can no longer trace back to their source many of the thoughts, and possibly even some of the expressions, which occur in them. I was chiefly indebted to the works on the Lord's Prayer by Bishop

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Andrewes, Dr. Isaac Barrow, Archbishop Leighton,

and Professor F. D. Maurice. It is certain, too, that

I must have derived valuable hints from the Sermons

and Addresses of my friends the Dean of Llandaff

and Dr. Newman Hall.

F. W. FARRAR.

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