Excerpt from A Discourse Concerning the Gift of Prayer: Shewing What It Is, Wherein It Consists, and How Far It Is Attainable by Industry; With Divers Useful and Proper Directions to That Purpose, Both in Respect of Matter, Method, and Expression Man may be a'ireci'ed to an ability of expre/fing or pouring out his Soul in thie Duty 3 there ia' for onght I can fina') but little written of it in any Language, though it be of fnch gene ml nfe for all Kina'r and Profeflionr of Men; and though the Gift be as machbetter-than the Pattern as the Receipt i'a better than the Medicine. 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.