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title: 'Samuel Davies: Son of Prayer'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2023-07-12
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2023-samuel-davies-son-of-prayer
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# Samuel Davies: Son of Prayer

“I am a son of prayer, like my name-sake Samuel the prophet; and my mother called me Samuel because, she said, I have asked him of the Lord, 1 Sam. i. 20. This early dedication to God has always been a strong inducement to me to devote myself to Him by my own personal act; and the most important blessing I have looked upon as immediate answers to the prayers of a pious mother. But, alas! what a degenerate plant am I! How unworthy of such a parent, and such a birth!” — [**Samuel Davies**](/authors/samuel-davies), quoted by Thomas Gibbons, *Divine Conduct Vindicated, or the Operations of God Shown to be the Operations of Wisdom* in Samuel Davies, *Sermons on the Most Useful and Important Subjects*, Vol. 1 (1766), p. lxi