Faith & Trust
The spirit of grace is always accompanied with the spirit of supplication.
Prayer is a duty founded on natural religion; the very heathens never neglected it.
He who is constantly employed in interceding for others does that on earth which the eternal Son of God always does in heaven.
Intercession then is certainly a duty incumbent upon all Christians.
Christ and souls are contracted, and the knot is tied so fast, that neither men on earth, how great soever they be, nor devils in hell, though they should combine all their wrath and rage together, still they cannot dissolve, they cannot untie it.
What are we afraid of? Is not God able to reward our entire obedience?
It is the very breath of the new creature, the fan of the divine life, whereby the spark of holy fire, kindled in the soul by God, is not only kept in, but raised into a flame.
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