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That we are to be urgent in prayers.

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120. That we are to be urgent in prayers.

In the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians:  “Be instant in prayer, and watch therein.”4635 Also in the first Psalm: “But in the law of the Lord is his will, and in His law will he meditate day and night.”4636

Footnotes

  1. 4635

    Col. iv. 2.

  2. 4636

    Ps. i. 2. The Oxford edition continues: “Likewise in Solomon; ‘Be not hindered from praying ever, and delay not unto death to be justified; for the repayment of the Lord abideth for ever.’” [In a day when there were few Bibles, and no printed books, no concordances, and no published collections of this sort, reflect on the value of this treatise to a young believer, and on the labour of his pastor in making it.]