Common Prayers for Family Use
Overview
B. F. Westcott provides a prayer book designed for daily use by a family or group throughout a week, with prayers for each day, and some additional prayers. Drawing from his own family’s devotional life, he notes that these prayers “were in continuous use at the household family prayer.”
- Title: Common Prayers for Family Use
- Author: Brooke Foss Westcott
- Publishers: Macmillan and Co., Macmillan Co.
- Print Publication Date: 1903
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Families › Prayers and devotions
- Resource ID: LLS:CMMNPRYRSFMLYS
- Resource Type: text.monograph.prayers
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-05-25T22:42:49Z
Brooke Foss Westcott (1825–1901) was a British bishop, biblical scholar, and theologian serving as bishop of Durham from 1890 until his death.
Westcott studied at Trinity College in Cambridge where he graduated in 1848. He stayed at Trinity, where in 1849 he obtained his fellowship and was ordained deacon and priest. He received honorary degrees from Oxford in 1881 and Edinburgh 1883. In 1890, he became the bishop of Durham.
He has authored several works, including Introduction to the New Testament in the Original Greek, A General View of the History of the English Bible, Westcott-Hort Greek New Testament, and Saint Paul’s Epistle to the Ephesians.