Chapter X.--We May Superadd Prayers of Our Own to the Lord's Prayer.
Since, however, the Lord, the Foreseer of human necessities, 1 said separately, after delivering His Rule of Prayer, "Ask, and ye shall receive;" 2 and since there are petitions which are made according to the circumstances of each individual; our additional wants have the right--after beginning with the legitimate and customary prayers as a foundation, as it were--of rearing an outer superstructure of petitions, yet with remembrance of the Master's precepts.
