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We need not detract from the excellency of private devotions, to magnify the public prayers of the church. Both are necessary, and highly pleasing to God. Yet it is no wrong to the private devotions of a particular saint, to give the precedency to the public prayers of the church. God Himself tells us He "loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob," Ps. 87:2. No doubt the prayers which the faithful put up to heaven from under their private roofs were very acceptable unto Him; but, if a sain'ts single voice in prayer be so sweet to God's ear, much more the church choir - His saints' prayers in consort together. A father is glad to see any one of his children when he visits him, but much more when they come together: the greatest feast is when they all meet at his house. The public praise of the church are teh emblem of heaven itself, where all the angels and saints make but one consort.
- William Gurnall
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