In the incomparable words of the
Evangelist, therefore, FAITH MUST BE A LIGHT ORIGINATING IN THE
LOGOS, OR THE SUBSTANTIAL REASON, WHICH IS CO-ETERNAL AND ONE WITH
THE HOLY WILL, AND WHICH LIGHT IS AT THE SAME TIME THE LIFE OF MEN.
Now, as LIFE is here the sum or collective of all moral and spiritual
acts, in suffering, doing, and being, so is Faith the source and the
sum, the energy and the principle of the fidelity of man to God, by
the subordination of his human Will, in all provinces of his nature,
to his Reason, as the sum of spiritual Truth, representing and
manifesting the Will Divine.
NOTES ON THE BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.
PRAYER.
A man may pray night and day, and yet deceive himself; but no man can
be assured of his sincerity who does not pray. Prayer is faith
passing into act; a union of the will and the intellect realising in
an intellectual act. It is the whole man that prays. Less than this
is wishing, or lip-work; a charm or a mummery. PRAY ALWAYS, says the
apostle: that is, have the habit of prayer, turning your thoughts
into acts by connecting them with the idea of the redeeming God, and
even so reconverting your actions into thoughts.
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