After God (through the Holy Spirit in Baptism) has kindled and caused a beginning of the true knowledge of God and faith, we should pray to Him without ceasing. We should ask that through the same Spirit and His grace, by means of the daily exercise of reading and doing God's Word, He would preserve us in faith and His heavenly gifts, strengthen us from day to day, and keep us to the end. For unless God Himself is our schoolmaster, we can study and learn nothing that is acceptable to Him and helpful to ourselves and others.
~BOC, FSD, II, 16
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