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WAY-MARKS;
OR,
DIRECTIONS TO PERSONS COMMENCING
A RELIGIOUS LIFE.
SELECTED AND ARRANGED
BY G. T. BEDELL, D. D.
Rector of St. Andrew’s Church, Phil’a.
_PHILADELPHIA_:
HENRY PERKINS, 159 CHESTNUT-ST.
1839.
Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by
_Key, Mielke, & Biddle_, in the Clerk’s Office of the Eastern
District of Pennsylvania.
_Stereotyped by L. Johnson._
PREFACE.
The great variety of useful little books lately published, under such
titles as _Daily Food_, _Daily Crumbs_, _Devout Exercises_, &c. and the
favour with which these have been met, suggested to the compiler, the
utility of attempting something of the same kind. He had accidentally met
with a little work, called, “Directions,” &c. published by _Maltbys_, New
Haven; and though there were some things in it which he did not like, he
thought it, on the whole, a very valuable little manual of instruction.
The compiler has made such alterations as seemed necessary to make it
please himself, and added some few particulars from a valuable tract
of the late President Edwards.—The Letter to a young Lady, &c. is one
which the compiler has been in the habit of presenting to young persons
under certain states of mind; and the “Memento,” by whomsoever prepared,
is most admirably done, and worthy to be read by all Christians.—The
article on the question, “Am I a New Creature?” taken from the Spirit of
the Pilgrims, is one highly useful and important in the present period of
religious inquiry.
The sole object of the compiler is to do good; and this he trusts and
prays may be accomplished.
_Philadelphia, Feb. 1832._