The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole duty of prayer. Delivered in…The saints daily exercise A treatise concerning the whole dutie of prayer. Delivered in…

You shall know it by this, if you have boldness, and confidence▪ that is an argument that ¹you look not upon your selves, but upon Christ. When a man i• so exceeding timorous, and doubting, and fearful, that […] dares not come to the throne of grace, or, if he do, yet he ⟨p. 144⟩makes a great question, whether he shall be heard or no, this is too much looking to himself, here the high priest is forgotten. If thou come in his name, there is enough to carry that out, it will breed boldness in thee, it will breed confidence: if thou come in the name of Christ, and offer up thy prayers through him, it will cause thee, in every petition thou puttest up, to think thy self so much beholding to Christ, that thou wilt be ready to say, in thy heart, whensoever any petition is granted thee, I may thank Jesus Christ for this. When a man, I say, shall be so much put upon his score, it will make him so much indebted to the Lord Jesus for his sin that is remitted, and this petition that he hath granted, that his heart shall be more enlarged to thankfulness, when he is able to consider the benefit of redemption, and is ready to say with himself, if Jesus Christ had not died, if I had not had such an high Priest, that hath entered into the very heavens, as the Apostle saith Hebr. 9. 1• make ²intercession for me, I had lost this benefit, I had never come to have put up a prayer to the Lord, or, if I had, it should not have been heard.

You shall know it by this, if you haue boldnesse, and confidence▪ that is an argument that ¹you looke not vpon your selues, but vpon Christ. When a man i• so exce•ding ti•erous, and doubting, and fearefull, that dares not come to the throne of grace, or, if hee doe, yet hee