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from beginning so early as six o'clock in the 

 morning (unless an hour be allowed between 

 six and eleven, for breakfast and relaxation), 

 and especially to those that live at a distance 

 from the school. 



V. Morning and evening prayers in schools 

 he much approved of, provided the offices were 

 very short, viz. two or three collects out of the 

 Liturgy, with a short prayer in the morning for 

 God's blessing upon their endeavours (as that, 

 for instance^ in the beginning of the common 

 grammar). And, in the evening, the general 

 thanksgiving; each office to be concluded with 

 the Lord's prayer, and a blessing, viz. in the 

 morning, 2 Cor. xiii. 14 ; and in the evening. 

 Numb. vi. 24, as it is applied in the end of the 

 office of commination. If any thing more was 

 at any time proper to be done, it was using the 

 Litany and reading one select lesson out of the 

 New Testament (as the 5th, 6th, and 7th of St. 

 Matthew), to be chosen by the master, at the 

 close of the week, or Saturday noon, when the 

 master catechised. 



VL The sweating of masters to the observance 

 of particular rules and orders, he ivas absolutely 

 against ; this he judged would serve to no great 

 end, unless it were to raise scruples and per- 

 plexities every day in the mind of the master, 

 if he were of a tender conscience. On the 



