AN
ESSAY ON FAITH;
NOTES ON THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER;
AND
A NIGHTLY PRAYER.
By SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
(Reprinted from his Literary Remains.)
[The following 'Essay on Faith' and 'Notes on the Book of Common Prayer' are reprinted from the 'Literary Remains,' edited by Henry Nelson Coleridge, and published in 1838-9 as possibly being portions of the uncompleted "Supplementary volume" to 'Aids to Reflection' spoken of by S. T. Coleridge in the latter work: see p. 257 ante. They are otherwise fairly supplementary of the two works which constitute the bulk of the present volume.
The beautiful 'Nightly Prayer' is added (also from the 'Literary Remains') as a suitable conclusion to a volume so much devoted to setting forth the author's faith in, and views concerning, Religion, the Bible, and Christianity.
In the latter connexion, too, the dates appended by the author (apparently) to the 'Notes on the Book of Common Prayer,' in two places, pp. 352 358, and to the 'Nightly Prayer,' p. 359, have considerable biographical interest.—Ed.]