No Prayers For Sinners?

I find serious fault with Hardshell Baptists in their failure to pray for the salvation of the lost. If you attend a "Primitive Baptist" church, in most cases of the Hyper Calvinist variety, you will hear all kinds of prayer requests, for the sick, for blessing on the preaching and service, etc., but you do not hear anyone say "pray for me to be saved," or "pray that God saves my husband" or wife or children or family member, etc. Why is this? Especially seeing that some of their songs speak of doing otherwise. Such as these two lines from the the song "Brethren we have met to worship":

4. Is there here a trembling jailer, seeking grace, and filled with tears? Is there here a weeping Mary, pouring forth a flood of tears? Brethren, join your cries to help them; sisters, let your prayers abound; Pray, Oh pray that holy manna may be scattered all around. 

 

5. Let us love our God supremely, let us love each other, too; Let us love and pray for sinners, till our God makes all things new. Then He’ll call us home to Heaven, at His table we’ll sit down; Christ will gird Himself and serve us with sweet manna all around.

I wrote about this in a posting years ago in "What Think Ye?" (See here). Many of these die hard Hardshells even admit that they do not pray for the salvation of the lost and unregenerate. But, do they not realize that this is sin? (See I Sam. 12: 23) Paul said that we should pray for all men, which includes making supplications for their salvation. (See I Tim. 2: 1-4; Rom. 10: 1)

Why do Hardshell pastors not ask if there is anyone who is lost and desires prayer? The old ministers in the Kehukee Association (which later became Hardshell) in the 1700s would call any to come forward who were under conviction of sin to be prayed for and counseled. (See "From Burkett & Read's History of the Kehukee Association" - here) Why did they stop doing this? Answer: because they became Hyper Calvinists. Further, when they stopped praying for sinners to be saved is when they began to dwindle and die.