Excerpt from Discourses on Prayer: View of the Covenant of Works, From the Sacred Records; A Memorial Concerning Personal and Family Fasting and Humiliation These words are an exhortation briefly delivered, as laws use to be; and therein we have, 1. A duty proposed, Pray. 2. The manner of it, without ceasing. I. We have the duty itself, Pray. It may be asked, What is prayer? I answer, It is an Offering up of our desires to God, for things agreeable to his will, in the name of Christ, with confession of our sins, and thankful acknowledgement of his mercies. Here I Shall consider. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.