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The Dangers of Avoiding Regular Times for Prayer
When you have given over the practice of stated prayer, you gradually become weaker without knowing it … Men first leave off private prayer; then they neglect the due observance of the Lord’s day (which is a stated service of the same kind); then they gradually let slip from their minds the very idea of… Read More ›
Times of Private Prayer
Now the duty of having stated times of private prayer is one of those observances concerning which we are apt to entertain the unbelieving thoughts I have been describing. It seems to us to be a form, or at least a light matter, to observe or omit; whereas in truth, such creatures are we, there… Read More ›