{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/211/2110787.htm","path":"chr/ecf/211/2110787.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/211/2110787.htm","text":"How the four kinds of supplication were originated by the Lord.\nThese four kinds of supplication the Lord Himself by His own example vouchsafed to originate for us, so that in this too He might fulfil that which was said of Him: \u201cwhich Jesus began both to do and to teach.\u201d 1599 For He made use of the class of supplication when He said: \u201cFather, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me;\u201d or this which is chanted in His Person in the Psalm: \u201cMy God, My God, look upon Me, why hast Thou forsaken me,\u201d 1600 and others like it. It is prayer where He says: \u201cI have magnified Thee upon the earth, I have finished the work which Thou gavest Me to do,\u201d and this: \u201cAnd for their sakes I sanctify Myself that they also may be sanctified in the truth.\u201d 1601 It is intercession when He says: \u201cFather, those Whom Thou hast given me, I will that they also may be with Me that they may see My glory which Thou hast given Me;\u201d or at any rate when He says: \u201cFather, forgive them for they know not what they do.\u201d 1602 It is thanksgiving when He says: \u201cI confess to Thee, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Thy sight:\u201d or at least when He says: \u201cFather, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard Me. But I knew that Thou hearest Me always.\u201d 1603 But though our Lord made a distinction between these four kinds of prayers as to be offered separately and one by one according to the scheme which we know of, yet that they can all be embraced in a perfect prayer at one and the same time He showed by His own example in that prayer which at the close of S. John\u2019s gospel we read that He offered up with such fulness. From the words of which (as it is too long to repeat it all) the careful inquirer can discover by the order of the passage that this is so. And the Apostle also in his Epistle to the Philippians has expressed the same meaning, by putting these four kinds of prayers in a slightly different order, and has shown that they ought sometimes to be offered together in the fervour of a single prayer, saying as follows: \u201cBut in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.\u201d 1604 And by this he wanted us especially to understand that in prayer and supplication thanksgiving ought to be mingled with our requests.\nMatt. 11:25, Matt. 26:0, John 11:41, John 42:0.\n393:1604","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. XI: The Works of John Cassian.: Chapter XVII. How the four kinds of supplication were originated by the Lord.","type":"page"}