Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I.

Name: Private Thoughts Upon Religion and a Christian Life; to which is Added the Necessity and Advantage of Frequent Communion. Volume I.
Author: William Beveridge

by William Beveridge

William Beveridge (1637–1708) was an English churchman who became bishop of St Asaph in 1704 and was famed for his learning in the early church and canon law. He edited the Apostolic Constitutions and a great collection of church canons, and preached and wrote for the ordinary Christian as well. Our library holds his Private Thoughts upon Religion and Private Thoughts upon a Christian Life, devotional classics long treasured for their humility and self-examination.

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First published: 1708
Category: Devotional
Length: 85k words · about 6 hours
Chapters: 64

About this book

The first volume of William Beveridge's Private Thoughts upon Religion, the private devotional writings of the scholarly bishop of St. Asaph, published posthumously in 1708. Beveridge sets down resolutions and meditations on the great articles of the faith and on ordering his own soul before God. The added treatise commends the necessity and advantage of frequent communion.