A Christian complaineth he cannot pray. Oh, I am troubled with so many distracting thoughts, and never more than now. But hath he put into thine heart a desire to pray? He will hear the desires of his own Spirit in thee. “We know not what to pray for as we ought” (nor do anything else as we ought), “but the Spirit helpeth our infirmities, with inexpressible sighs and groans” (Rom. 8:26), which are not hid from God. “My groanings are not hid from thee” (Ps. 38:9). God can pick sense out of a confused prayer. These desires cry louder in his ears than thy sins. Sometimes a Christian hath such
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