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A short method of prayer, and Spiritual torrents, tr. by A.W. Marston

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34 A SHORT METHOD OF PRAYER.

What risk can there be in trusting God, and abandon-ing yourself to Him? Oh, He will not deceive you, unless it be by giving you far more than you ever expected : while those who expect everything from themselves may well take to themselves the reproach w^hich God utters by the mouth of Isaiah : " Thou art wearied in the greatness of thy way; yet saidst thou not, There is no hope" (Isa. Ivii. lo).