TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF SHAFTESBURY, K.G., &c., &c., &c. MY LORD, I venture to solicit your Lordship's acceptance of a humble effort to promote spirituality in family worship. I am not unconscious, that there is seeming presumption in associating your name with a production of my pen. But I am bold in the persuasion, that no mark of Christian affection will be deemed an infringement of propriety. Peculiar motives prompt this address. Your claim to reverence, as one of our noblest patriots, rises above any recognition from me. A long course of devoted efforts to ameliorate the condition of our sons of toil, has inscribed your name in imperishable |