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2. Because, till we be brought into that state of reconciliation, we have no share •n the intercession, satisfaction and righteousness ⟨p. 9⟩of Jesus Christ. And till we have a share in the•, our prayers can not be accepted. Jacob could not receive the blessing from his father, but in the garments of his elder brother; not can we receive any thing from the hands of God, but in the Robes of Christ. No prayer can be accepted by God, but in and through the intercession of Jesus Christ. If Christ be not an Intercessor in Heaven, no prayer will be heard […] in the 8. Chapter of Rev. 1. v. 3. •. is written, there was an Angel ¹thus came and stood at the Altar, having a […] and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer i• with the prayers of all Saints upon the golden Altar which was before the throne. The word in the Greek is to ²this purpose, That he should add it to the prayers of the Saints: As if the prayer of Christ and a Believer were all one. In the 56. of Isal. 7. God promiseth, I will bring my people to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer, &c. In the ³Hebrew it i• thus, I will make them joyful in the house of my prayer. Our prayers ar• but as so many cyphers, that signify nothing, till the intercession of Christ is added to them; without that they cannot be accepted.

2. Because, till we be brought into that state of reconciliation, we have no share •n the intercession, satisfaction and righteousnesse ⟨p. 9⟩