be baptized, but to those who became his disciples in addition to being baptized.25 5. Such prayers as were truly spiritual, since the Spirit prays in the heart of the saints, were written down, filled with secret and marvelous teachings. In 1 Samuel (1:11–13) part of Hannah’s prayer is found; for “when she continued praying before the Lord,” she spoke “in her heart” (1 Sam. 1:12–13), and the whole prayer was not put in writing. In Psalms the Seventeenth Psalm is entitled “A Prayer of David”; and
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