Of Prayer
John Calvin
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Of Prayer — John Calvin.
Chapters 51
- destitute man is of all good, how devoid of every means of procuring ≈ 2 min
- which are treasured up for us with our heavenly Father. For there is a ≈ 3 min
- what our difficulties are, and what is meet for our interest, so that it ≈ 5 min
- mind framed as becomes those who are entering into converse with ≈ 2 min
- professing to pray turn thither all his thoughts and feelings, and be ≈ 9 min
- our wants, and seriously considering that we need all the things ≈ 3 min
- always equal, I admit it, and this distinction is profitably taught us by ≈ 9 min
- confession of guilt, forms both the preparation and commencement ≈ 6 min
- appeal to their own righteousness, as when David says, "Preserve my ≈ 3 min
- thus abased and truly humbled, we should be animated to pray with ≈ 6 min
- when we say that believers ought to feel firmly assured, they think we ≈ 6 min
- convicts us of impious contumacy if we obey not. He could not give a ≈ 6 min
- scarcely at all, so that the generality of men prefer to wander up and ≈ 9 min
- relates that God sometimes complied with certain prayers which had ≈ 6 min
- which I have treated are not so rigorously enforced, as that God ≈ 9 min
- and appear in the presence of God, our heavenly Father, to relieve us ≈ 2 min
- enjoins his disciples to have recourse to his intercession after he shall ≈ 3 min
- which we can draw near to God, those who deviate from this way, ≈ 5 min
- allege that Christ is the Mediator of redemption, but that believers ≈ 2 min
- if we attribute prayer to them, let us not imagine that they have any ≈ 6 min
- manifestation of the genius of superstition, which, when once it has ≈ 3 min
- support from Scripture they labour in vain. We frequently read (they ≈ 6 min
- wish, who, during the whole course of their lives, breathed nothing ≈ 3 min
- their error are miserably wrested. Jacob (they say) asks for the sons ≈ 6 min
- are often said to have been heard. Why? Because they prayed. "They ≈ 6 min
- in the invocation of God (this being the office of piety which he ≈ 3 min
- supplications, yet so strong is the affinity between petition and ≈ 11 min
- private prayers of individuals, extends also in some measure to the ≈ 6 min
- are the places destined for the performance of them, and hence those ≈ 3 min
- in prayer) are of the least consequence, or avail one iota with God, ≈ 3 min
- mention in passing) is not only very ancient, but was also used by the ≈ 3 min
- Greek among the Latins, nor in Latin among the French or English ≈ 5 min
- prayer, that, namely, which our heavenly Father has delivered to us ≈ 2 min
- prevented from agreeing with those who divide it into seven by the ≈ 3 min
- said (sec. 17-19), that all our prayers to God ought only to be ≈ 3 min
- consciousness of sin, by which our Father, though mild and merciful, ≈ 3 min
- particular is to call him Father, but rather that we are all in common ≈ 3 min
- ourselves, and certain others, provided our mind is not withdrawn ≈ 3 min
- not to infer that he is enclosed and confined within the ≈ 5 min
- of presenting it bespeaks our great disgrace. For what can be more ≈ 3 min
- nothing new, and yet there is good reason for distinguishing it from ≈ 5 min
- IN HEAVEN. Though this depends on his kingdom, and cannot be ≈ 3 min
- our own interests, not, indeed, that we are to lose sight of the glory of ≈ 12 min
- following petition our Saviour has briefly comprehended whatever is ≈ 6 min
- promise of writing the law upon our hearts; but because we do not ≈ 9 min
- and all that we have to God, clearly show what we formerly observed ≈ 3 min
- God, are contained in this formula, and as it were rule, of prayer ≈ 3 min
- restricted to this form of prayer as to make it unlawful to change a ≈ 3 min
- ought always to raise our minds upwards towards God, and pray ≈ 2 min
- governed by the laws of Divine Providence, we shall easily learn to ≈ 3 min
- what the result of prayer is, or experience any benefit from it, still ≈ 6 min
| Author | John Calvin |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Era | Reformation |
| Categories | Theology |
| Chapters | 51 |
| Formats | Web Book · PDF |
| Status | Public Domain |
Public Domain.