Excerpt from The Pathway to Piety, Vol. 1 of 2 By it we confer and talk with God, and by it we procure much good unto man By it we do pierce the very clouds, and by it we have whatsoever is meet. Do we want any thing that is good for us or others? Prayer is the Messenger whom we must send towards God. Have we received any special favour from him? Prayer is our Ambassador to give him thanks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.