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God for him." " For God is my witness, that without
ceasing I make mention qfyou a/ways in my prayers."
"Now I beseech you, brethren, for the Lord Jesus
Christ's sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that ye
strive together with me, in your prayers for mt."
" Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one
another, that ye may be healed: the effectual ferv.~t
prctyer of the righteous man availeth much." Exod.
xxxii. 11. Acts xii. 5. Rom. i. 9. xv. so. James v. 16.
s. Declarations and examples authorizing the repetition
of unsuccessful prayers: "And he spoke :J.
parable unto them, to this end, that men ought al ..
ways to pray, and not to faint." "And he left
them, and went away again, and prayed the third
time, saying the same words." "For this thing I besought
the Lord thrice that it might depart from
me." Luke xviii. 1. Matt. xxvi. 44. 2 Cor. xii .. 8.~
CHAPTER IV.
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OF PRIVATE PRAYER, I(AIV1ILY PRAYER,
AND PUBLIC WORSHIP.
CON CE RNIN G these three descriptions of
devotion, it is first of all to be observed, that each
has its separate and peculiar use; and therefore,
that the exercise of one species of worship, however
regular it be, does not supersede, or dispense with
the obligation of either of the other two.
I. Pnvate Prayer is recommended f01" the sake of
the following advantages :
·The reformed churches of Christendom, sticki~g close in this arti(;ie to
their guide l have l?;d aside prayers fC,f the dead, as authorized by na prece.pt
or pr~ccdent. tound i? scripture. For the same reason they proper! y
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