The Spirit of Prayer

[Pryr-1.2-43] So following this logic, then Our Redemption is the new Birth or if one want to counts the early baptismal, then it is our Re-birth where as adults we stand up and proclaim that True, We are his Soldiers, His Followers, his disciples. For if this is not done, or doing in us, we are still unredeemed, we must state it loudly and clearly and not worry who is to hear, because confirmation is strength. So until then though the Savior of the World is come, He is not come in us, He is not received by us, is a Stranger to us, is not ours, if his Life is not within us.His life is not, cannot be within us, but so far as the Spirit of the World, Self-love, Self-esteem, and Self-seeking, are renounced, and driven out of us.

[Pryr-1.2-14] Still, the Goodness of God would not leave Man in this sad Condition. A Redemption from it was immediately granted, and the Bruiser [Thug]  of the Serpent brought the Light and Spirit of Heaven once more into the human Nature, not as it was in its first State, when Man was in Paradise, but as a Treasure hidden in the Centre of our Souls, where it could discover, and open itself by Degrees, in such Proportion, as the Faith and Desires of our Hearts were turned to it.  It is this Light and Spirit of God thus freely restored again to the Soul, and lying in it as a secret Source of Heaven, is called Grace, Free Grace, or the Supernatural Gift, or Power of God in the Soul, because it was something that the Natural Powers of the Soul could no more obtain. Hence it is, that in the greatest Truth, and highest Reality, every stirring of the Soul, every Tendency of the Heart towards God and Goodness, is justly and necessarily ascribed to the Holy Spirit, or the Grace ...