4. Prayer.

By these words of the Gospel “We ought always to pray, and not to faint” (St. Luke xviii. 1), and by those of St. Paul, “Pray without ceasing” (1 Thess. v. 17), we are not commanded to continue the exercise of prayer without any cessation, for this is not within the power of human frailty; but we are admonished not to abandon prayer so far as to fail to give certain hours to it diligently every day. And assuredly, a man of good-will, who always acts rightly, and refers all his works to the honour of God, is ever praying.