120. That we are
to be urgent in prayers.
In the Epistle of Paul to the Colossians:
“Be instant in prayer, and watch therein.”
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Also
in the first Psalm: “But in the law of the Lord is his
will, and in His law will he meditate day and night.”
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Col. iv. 2
.
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Ps. i. 2
. The Oxford edition
continues: “Likewise in Solomon; ‘Be not hindered
from praying ever, and delay not unto death to be justified; for the
repayment of the Lord abideth for ever.’” [In a day
when there were few Bibles, and no printed books, no concordances, and
no published collections of this sort, reflect on the value of this
treatise to a young believer, and on the labour of his pastor in making
it.]