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De Oratione
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[1] Quoniam tamen Dominus, prospector humanarum necessitatum, seorsum post traditam orandi disciplinam Petite, inquit, et accipietis et sunt quae petantur pro circumstantia cuiusque, praemissa legitima et ordinaria oratione quasi fundamento accidentium desideriorum ius est superstruendi extrinsecus petitiones, cum memoria tamen praeceptorum, ne quam a praeceptis tantum ab auribus Dei longe simus.
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On Prayer
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.