Plain Village Sermons on the Lord's Prayer, and the Beautitudes

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If there be one duty which makes more frequent or more urgent calls upon a Christian than any other, it is that of prayer. Any one who has entered in earnest upon the divine life, will not be long before he perceives this. As a natural man, indeed, he owes a debt to his good and gracious God, which he can never acknowledge often enough, or be too mindful of; he is also dependent on God every day for every thing, being merely the creature of His hands, to do with as He thinks fit. What then can be more proper or more seemly, than, if for these reasons only, to fall down before the Lord his Maker, and while he acknowledges himself to be one of the people of His pasture and the sheep of His hand, to beg for a continuance of that upholding care which has hitherto preserved him? So that, if this were all - if the air which we breathe, and the raiment which clothes us, and the food which we eat day by day, were all we received at God's hands, common gratitude would require that we should thank Him for it; and a common sense of our dependence on Him, that we should request the continuance of it.
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