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To prayer, then, are we indebted for penetrating to those riches which are treasured up for us with our heavenly Father. … prayer digs up those treasures which the Gospel of our Lord discovers to the eye of faith.

John Calvin — Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book III, ch. 20, secs. 1–2 (Beveridge)

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Opening of Calvin’s prayer chapter: the gospel shows the treasure; prayer digs it up.

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