Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Praying is a soul-enriching trade. Itis a trade with heaven, and brings down temporal and spiritual mercies. He that drives this trade most diligently, will be found the most thriving Christian. Surely the leanness among professors is owing to this neglect in a great measure.
Thomas Boston, Discourses on Prayer (1727) in The Whole Works of the Late Reverend Thomas Boston of Ettrick, ed. Samuel McMillan (12 vols, Aberdeen: George and Robert King, 1852), 11: 16.
Thomas Boston, Discourses on Prayer (1727) in The Whole Works of the Late Reverend Thomas Boston of Ettrick, ed. Samuel McMillan (12 vols, Aberdeen: George and Robert King, 1852), 11: 16.