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CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE.On prayer.
Prayer is an exercise of piety and Christian warfare by which believers, by the Spirit's prompting and in Jesus Christ's name, address God the Father by petition and thanksgiving concerning goods to be given or already given, and evils to be averted or already averted.
It is also called invocation or adoration; metaphorically sacrifice, incense, calves of the lips.In the regenerate it is nearly a compendium of all good works.
Latin
CAPUT VIGESIMUM PRIMUM, De precatione. Precatio est exercitium pietatis et militiae Christianae, quo fideles Deum Patrem de bonis dandis aut datis, malisque averruncandis aut averruncatis, impulsu Spiritus Sancti in nomine Iesu Christi petendo et gratias agendo compellant. Alias invocatio, alias adoratio dicitur. Per metaphoram sacrificium, suffimentum, vituli labiorum (Heb. 13:15). Est complexus et compendium fere omnium bonorum operum in homine renato.