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On Prayer
Tertullian, ANF 3
Chapter 10
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.
Notes
- See Matt. vi. 8.
- Matt. vii. 7; Luke xi. 9.