Accompanying Bible reading with fervent prayer (William Wilberforce)

[Reformed Covenanter]

But it is only by accompanying our study of the Scriptures, with constant, humble, and fervent prayer, that we can hope to draw down those blessed influences which alone can enable us to feel the truths of Christianity in all their vital power, and can maintain the life of religion in the soul.

William Wilberforce, ‘Introductory Essay’ to John Witherspoon, Treatises on Justification and Regeneration (3rd edn, Glasgow: William Collins, 1830), xv.