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THERE are few subjects in Christian Theology so ill understood as that of prayer; nòne, perhaps, concerning which more crude and erroneous notions are entertained; none more encumbered with gross and injurious misconceptions. Often, the very foundation on which it rests, seems almost wholly misapprehended; and, in consequence of this misapprehension, both its obligation and propriety are by many disallowed. In this case, as in many others, false views of the divine character and of the relations between man and his Maker, lead, according to the different temperament of men's minds, to fanaticism on the one hand, or to infidelity on the other. And even among those who in the main are sober and devout, who escape both extremes and habitually cultivate the essential virtues of the christian character, even among these, it is believed, that in consequence of vague or inadequate views of

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