Prayer in secret
A direction equally full and express, to wait for the blessings of God in private prayer, together with a positive promise that by this means we shall obtain the request of our lips, he has given us in those well-known words. Enter into your closet, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees in secret shall reward you openly. Matthew 6:6.
1771 text
5. A direction equally full and express, to wait for the blessings of God in private prayer, together with a positive promise, that by this means we shall obtain the request of our lips, he hath given us in those well-known words: Enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret, and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly, Matt. vi. 6.
About this text
Rendered in modern English, to be read and heard. Open the 1771 text under each part to check the claims and the scripture.
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Catalogue & scope
Sermon 16 in the 1771 Works. Malachi 3:7.
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