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…

This is a thing that you all know, that those ¹prayers that are not offered up in Christ, are not acceptable, because the person is not regarded. It was the sin of Uzzi• in the 2. Chron. 26. he ²would go to the Temple himself being a King on the throne, and he would offer incense without a Priest. We do the very self-same thing, whensoever we go to offer up any prayer to God without Christ Jesus▪ In the old […] men might bring their sacrifices, but still the Priest must off• them; so must w•e here▪ and the reason is given, ⟨p. 11⟩Reu. 8. because the prayers that come from ³us •avour of the flesh, from which they come, and the Angel of the Covenant mingleth much incense with them, and makes them sweet and acceptable to God, with much incense, that is, as the flesh is more, so there needs more incense, that they may be made acceptable to God the Father. So that we have indeed a double intercessor: one is, the spirit that helps our infirmities, that helps us to make our petitions, that quickens, and enlargeth our hearts to prayer: The other is the intercessor to make them acceptable to God, that he may receive them, and not refuse & reject them. So much shall serve for the first thing, to show you what the duty is, what a right, true, and acceptable prayer is.

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