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Duty and Efficacy oj PraJ'er.
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and active sense of gratit~dc ; that the granting of
it to prayer would put others upon praying to him,
2nd by that means preserve thp. love ar,:t submission
ofllis subjects, upon which love and submis~ion, their
own happiness, as weIi as his glory, depended; that,
beside that the memory of the particular kindness
would be heightened and prolonged by the anxiety
with which it had been sued for, prayer had in other
re~pects so disposed and prepared the mind of the petitiGner~
as to rende!· capable (Jf future sen;ces hint
who before was unqualified for any ; might not that
prince, I say, although he proceeded upon no other
consideratioD& than tIle strict re~titute and expedi.
en(:y of the measure, bT