John Venn, Sermons, vol. I (Boston: R. P. & C. Williams, 1822), Sermon V, "The Prayer of St. Paul for the Ephesians," on Ephesians iii. 14–19, p. 47

Prayer is the source of the Christian's strength. The dispensation under which he lives is a system of intercourse between God and man. Man approaches his God, and spreads before him his wants, his dangers and his suffer…