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YOU see then what is the method and form of prayer proposed to us by
the Judge Himself, who is to be prayed to by it, a form in which there is
contained no petition for riches, no thought of honours, no request for
power and might, no mention of bodily health and of temporal life. For He
who is the Author of Eternity would have men ask of Him nothing uncertain,
nothing paltry, and nothing temporal. And so a man will offer the greatest
insult to His Majesty and Bounty, if he leaves on one side these eternal
petitions and chooses rather to ask of Him something transitory and
uncertain; and will also incur the indignation rather than the propitiation
of the Judge by the pettiness of his prayer.
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