On Prayer · III. On Prayer · Chapter X
We May Superadd Prayers of Our Own to the Lord's Prayer
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Since, however, the Lord, the Foreseer of human necessities,8824 said separately, after delivering His Rule of Prayer, "Ask, and ye shall receive;"8825 and since there are petitions which are made according to the circumstances of each individual; our additional wants have the right—after beginning with the legitimate and customary prayers as a foundation, as it were—of rearing an outer superstructure of petitions, yet with remembrance of the Master's precepts.
Notes
Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 3, ed. Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson and A. Cleveland Coxe (1885–96). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.