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Leighton on 1Peter 5.10. Such prayers as Eph. 1.17-19; 3.14-19; Phil. 1.9-11; Col. 1.9-12; etc. are well deserving of study, as models for enlarged and profitable Ministerial intercession. It was well observed by an old divine, that ‘the Minister who is more before his people in public, than he is before God for them in private, has little reason to expect a blessing on his labours.’ ‘No man ever rose from his knees after praying for his parish, without experiencing an increase of love for his Ministerial work, and of ardour in its prosecution. He returns to his flock with something of that holy light shed around his head, which shone on the face of Moses after talking with the Lord on the Mount; so that all men may know by the consistency of his walk and demeanour, and the concentration of every thought on the one great and absorbing object—that he too has been with Jesus.’ Bp. of Winchester’s Charge, 1837. Bowles. Lib. i. 22.