Works Tertullian (160-220) De oratione On Prayer

Chapter XII.--We Must Be Free Likewise from All Mental Perturbation.

Nor merely from anger, but altogether from all perturbation of mind, ought the exercise of prayer to be free, uttered from a spirit such as the Spirit unto whom it is sent. For a defiled spirit cannot be acknowledged by a holy Spirit, 1 nor a sad by a joyful, 2 nor a fettered by a free. 3 No one grants reception to his adversary: no one grants admittance except to his compeer.

  1. Eph. iv. 30. ↩

  2. John xvii. 14; Rom. xiv. 17. ↩

  3. Ps. li. 12. ↩

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