A Method for Prayer: With Scripture Expressions Proper to Be Used Under Each Head
Source-selection candidate for a historical prayer-shaping source. Internet Archive metadata reports the 1803 Google-digitized Princeton copy with possible copyright status NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT. OCR review on 2026-07-09 found the selected DjVu text too noisy for a responsible source-library import without manual/OCR cleanup: headings and Scripture references are damaged by long-s and scan/OCR defects, and Google front matter/watermarks require removal. Source-candidate review on 2026-07-10 found no clean EEBO-TCP, CCEL, Project Gutenberg, or Wikisource structured text for direct import; HathiTrust and Google Books are useful scan/catalog lanes, not preferred mirrored text lanes. The cleaner 1834 University of Toronto IA candidate a587258300henruoft appears promising but is a combined volume and must be isolated deliberately before import. No source text is mirrored yet. Scripture references from this source, when extracted later, are prayer-manual anchors only and must not be treated as reviewed OT-to-NT evidence links. Not family-facing or paid-product approved until source/reuse, OCR, and excerpt review are complete.
Source and trust
Author: Matthew Henry
Kind: treatise
Tradition: reformed
Original work: public-domain historical prayer manual, first published in 1710
Digital source: Link-only digital source
Edition status: Needs verification
Proof texts: Proof texts not attached
Use guidance: citation-only
Source provider: Internet Archive / Google Books
Edition citation: Matthew Henry, A Method for Prayer: With Scripture-expressions, Proper to be Used Under Each Head (Printed by T. Maccliesh and Co. for Ogle & Aikman, 1803), Princeton University copy digitized by Google and hosted by Internet Archive, identifier amethodforpraye01henrgoog, accessed 2026-07-09.