Prayer is appointed to convey

Prayer is appointed to convey.Joseph Hart* (1712-1768).  This comes from Hart’s Hymns, &c., composed on Various Subjects, The Fifth Edition, with the Author’s Experience, the Supplement, and Appendix (1765). JJ notes, p. 493, that this was Hymn XII of the Appendix, entitled ‘Pray without ceasing. I Thess. v. 17.’ It had six stanzas:  Pray’r was appointed to convey  The Blessings God designs to give Long as they live should Christians pray:  For only while they pray, they live.  The Christian’s Heart his Pray’r delights;  He speaks as prompted from within.The Spirit his Petition writes;  And Christ receives, and gives it in.  And wilt thou in dead Silence lie,  When Christ stands waiting...