CONCLUSION. 503 tures so confirmed, as not to be shaken by any objections brought against them, by any difficulties to be found in them ; the comparing faithfully all we have heard urged against Religion, with all we have seen of its effects, and experienced of its benefits, all this is the solid ground on which future attainments must hereafter be built, a ground on which to build prayer by the enquiring mind and the seeking heart. And when our reason iS become as strong on the side of Christianity, as our belief-when our faith is as enlightened as it is implicit - when the growth of the one only confirms the dominion of the other, this is such an obedience of the heart as will infallibly produce obe- dience in the life ; an obedience which will, be both the cause and the conse- quence of effectual prayer. The renewing of the soul after the image of God is not otherwise to be ob- tained than by true spiritual heart-search- ing prayer. There may be a form of
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