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“Audacious prayer, which perseveres unflinchingly and ceases not through fear, is well pleasing unto God…[prayer is] the hardest work of all – a labour above all labours, since he who prays must wage almighty warfare against the doubt and murmuring excited by the faint-heartedness and unworthiness we feel within us…that unutterable and powerful groaning with which the godly rouse themselves against despair, the struggle in which they call mightily upon their faith.”