The Spirit of Prayer

Luke 10:25-37 The Good Samaritan - Story Summary:  Jesus Christ's parable of the Good Samaritan was prompted by a question from a lawyer: And behold, a lawyer stood up to put him to the test, saying, "Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?" (Luke 10:25, ESV) Jesus asked him what was written in the law, and the man responded: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself." (Luke 10:27, ESV)  Pressing further, the lawyer asked Jesus, "Who is my neighbor?"  In parable form, Jesus told of a man going down from Jerusalem to Jericho. Robbers attacked him, took his possessions and clothes, beat him, and left him half dead.  A priest came down the road, saw the injured man, and passed by him on the other side. A Levite passing by did the same.  A Samaritan, a race hated by the Jews, saw the hurt man and had compassion on him....

[Pryr-1.1-33] Now that the Soul, once fallen, is in a real State of Death. It is a a Doctrine not only plain from the whole Tenor of Scripture, but affirmed in all of Divinity. For all hold, and teach, that Man unredeemed, must have fallen into a State of Misery, like that of the fallen Angels and "That Man in his fallen State, and unredeemed, must have been eternally lost." [Pryr-1.1-34] On the other Hand, Jesus Christ helps this Fall Soul to a new Birth, this time of the Light and Spirit of God, which was extinguished by his Fall. For Redemption, or Recovery of Man, means Regeneration so that Man's Misery at having lost the Life and Light of Heaven from his Soul, could be Delivered from his fallen State. [Pryr-1.1-35] If Angels had come down from Heaven to assure him, that God had no Anger at him, he would still have been in the same helpless State; if instead they ad they told him, that God had Pity and Compassion towards him, would good would that do? He would ...

This poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes , is a great example of figurative writing. Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners, And sometimes goin' in the dark Where there ain't been no light.  So, boy, don't you turn back. Don't you set down on the steps. 'Cause you finds it's kinder hard. Don't you fall now— For I'se (I is) still goin', honey, I'se still climbin', And life for me ain't been no crystal stair. 

[ Pryr-1.1-26] So there was nothing that kept Adam out of the Hell of Fallen Angels, and now  his  Body  was as  mortal  as it was in the Beasts, and so now he lay at the Mercy of a thousand Accidents, that could any  Moment take his life from him, and this is was his fallen State, standing as it were on the Brinks of Hell, liable every Moment to be pushed into it. [Pryr-1.1-27] So there is now an ab solute  Necessity that a new Birth, must be of  Word, a Son , and of  Spirit  , that Scripture speaks  of , because our  new Soul, was now dead to, and separate from the Kingdom of Heaven, having lost the Light and Spirit of God on its own account.  Therefore  it is now incapable of entering into Heaven, until by a  new Birth, a new Soul receives from on High,  its first Heavenly Nature. [Pryr-1.1-28] If you have  nothing of this New Birth when thy Body dies, then you have only the   Root ...