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Instruction,

On how one should pray rightly.

How powerful, potent, and healing a thing—indeed, how like a lovely, sweet fragrance before GOD—a truly Christian, deeply fervent prayer of faith is, can be clearly understood from Holy Scripture, from the examples and fruits of prayers being answered, and also from the words and promises of our Lord Christ himself. For in the Gospel, he exhorts us to prayer many times and says: Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you, etc. original: "2c." – a common abbreviation for "und so weiter" (etc.). Matthew 7. For this reason, a person should accustom themselves to prayer with all earnestness and diligence. And because prayer is an uplifting of the soul original: "Gemüths" – this term encompasses the mind, spirit, and emotional disposition of a person. to GOD, and a heartfelt, loving conversation with the heavenly, kind King and Lord JESUS Christ, we should, when we wish to pray, cast all other things from our minds,