Lancelot Andrewes and his private devotions

Lancelot Andrewes was born the son of a sea-faring man at Allhallows Barking, London, in 1555, and he died Bishop of Winchester at Southwark in 1626. Lancelot Andrewes lives to us and shines to us to this day in his Private Devotions. All our interest in Andrewes is centred in his Private Devotions. Andrewes was a great scholar and a great patron of poor scholars, he was the most popular preacher of his day, in his hospitality he was the pattern of an apostolic bishop, and he was a great favourite with his king; but all that would have been forgotten by us long ago had it not been for his one incomparable and immortal book, the Private Devotions. - p. [1].