Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
William GurnallGod is very precise in this point; he will say to such as invent ways to worship him of their own, coin means to mortify corruption, obtain comfort in their own mint: 'Who hath required this at your hands?' This is truly to be 'righteous over-much,' as Solomon speaks, when we will pretend to correct God's law, and add supplements of our own to his rule.
William GurnallWe are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.
William Gurnall