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‘That Ministration of the word, which is not accompanied with continual prayer for its success, is not like to have any very great blessing to go along with it. For a Minister to preach the word without const.ant prayer for its success, is a likely means to cherish and strengthen secret atheism in the heart, and very unlikely to work holiness in the lives of others.’ Owen on Apostacy, p. 441—one of his most searching and important treatises.