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title: 'Thomas Brainerd on Praying for Pastors'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-07-23
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-thomas-brainerd-on-praying-for-pastors
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# Thomas Brainerd on Praying for Pastors

“No maxim is more true than that familiar one — *a praying people makes a preaching minister*. If then, you would have your pastor come to you with sermons, full of thoughts that pierce and words that burn, PRAY FOR HIM: — pray affectionately, earnestly, continuously.” — **Thomas Brainerd**, *The Gospel Honourable to Its Advocates: A Sermon, by the Rev. Thomas Brainerd, at the Ordination and Installation of the Rev. Andrew Harris* (1841)