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A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief…
A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and forms / by John Owen ...
London: printed for Nathanael Ponder, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. IV.
The nature of Prayer Rom. 8. 26. Opened and Vindicated.
Prayer at present I take to be, a Gift, Ability or Spiritual Faculty of exercising Faith, Love, Reverence, Fear, Delight, and other Graces in a way of vocal Requests, Supplications, and Praises unto God. In every thing making our Request known unto God, Phil. 4. 6.
PRayer at present I take to be, a Gift, Ability or Spiritual Faculty of exercising Faith, Love, Reverence, Fear, Delight, and other Graces in a way of vocal Requests, Supplications, and Praises unto God. In every thing making our Request known unto God, Phil. 4. 6.
This Gift and Ability, I affirm to be bestowed, and this Work by Virtue thereof to be wrought in us by the Holy Ghost in the Accomplishment of the Promise insisted on,