Lord’s Day 45, Chapter 2: The Requisites of True Prayer (2)

Let us consider just one of the several passages of the Word of God that are quoted in support of what nevertheless must be considered a very corrupt and carnal conception of prayer -- a passage that is perhaps more often appealed to than any other. I am referring to the prayer of Hezekiah, the king of Judah. You are all acquainted, no doubt, with the incident in Hezekiah's life that occasioned the prayer, as tie11 as with the prayer itself and its result. The king was sick. And his sickness...