The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 661

:

THE ESSENCE OF PRAYER

or, "

And now, O

Thou Me with Thine own had with Thee before the world was"; Holy Father, keep through Thine own name those whom Thou

plication, " self,

Father, glorify

with the glory which

I

may be one as We Me power over all flesh,

hast given Me, that they "

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Thou

hast given

many

nal life to as

as

Thou

hast given

are

";

that

Me";

I

thanksgiving,

(2)

should g^ve eter-

" (3) praise,

eous Father, the world hath not known Thee, but

O

right-

have known Thee, and these have known that Thou hast sent Me"; (4) and besides these a manifold outpouring of the soul, which is neither prayer, praise, nor thanksgiving, " All Mine are Thine, and Thine are Mine " "I have glorified Thee on the earth I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do"; " For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth." ;

We sin,

of

;

did not assign a special place to the confession of guilt and

because this

which

lost

I

it is

is

included in supplication, to which

moving cause

the

;

it

leads and

while the confession of the soul's

condition and natural liability to condemnation necessarily

must lead

to the

pouring out of the

soul.

Therefore, speaking comprehensively, every religious act by which

we

we understand by prayer:

take upon ourselves directly to speak to

the Eterfial Being.

The only

difficulty is in the

Hymn

in

hymns

For

of Praise.

denied that in a number of psalms there

is

it

can not be

a direct speaking to

God

and thus the distinction between the Prayer of Praise might be lost sight of.

of praise

;

and the Hymn There are four steps of the praise of

God

in the

Hymn of

Praise

:

it

may be

a singing

before one's otvn soul ; or before the ear

brethren ; or before the world

and

the

demons

of

the

j or lastly, before the

Lord God Himself.

When

the flame of holy joy

altho he be alone or in strained, for his

own

bums

freely in the heart of the saint,

chains in the dungeon, he feels con-

satisfaction as

sing a psalm to the praise of God.

it

were, with a loud voice to

Thus

was that David sang and my supplication." Different is the Hymn of Praise when, with and for the brethren, the saint sings in their company; for then they sing, " Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound; they shall walk " I

love the Lord because

God

" :

O

hath heard

it

my voice

Thy countenance"; or directly addressing the people ye seed of Abraham, His servant, ye children of Jacob

in the light of

of

He

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