Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to … - Benjamin Stillingfleet

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Benjamin Stillingfleet

Prayer among men is supposed a means to change the person to whom we pray; but prayer to God doth not change him, but fits us to receive the things prayed for.

Among, Mean, Men, Prayer, Receive, Supposed

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Philosophers and common heathen believed one God, to whom all things were referred; but under this God they worshipped many inferior and subservient gods.

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Error is but the shadow of the truth.

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Each moss, Each shell, each drawling insect, holds a rank Important in the plan of Him who fram'd This scale of beings; holds a rack which, lost Would break the chain, and leave behind a gap Which Nature's self would rue.

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