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A remedy against despair. Or Brief discourse wherein great sinners are encouraged, and directed…
A remedy against despair. Or Brief discourse wherein great sinners are encouraged, and directed how to improve the consideration of the greatness of their sins in praying to God for pardon. Being the substance of two sermons preached at the lecture in Boston, 1699. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church there. ; [Four lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by B. Green and J. Allen. Sold by S. Phillips, 1700
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5. We must come in Christ's Name. There is no other way in which God communicates the saving benefits of the New-Covenant, but through Christ, who hath purchased them for us: and therefore to come in any other Name is altogether vain, and will prove altogether fruitless. God out of Christ, is a consuming fire, Heb. ⟨p. 49⟩12. ult. But in and through him he is propitious; Christ himself therefore both directs and encourageth us thus to do, Joh. 14.14. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
6. We must ask in Faith. This is a qualification belonging to every Evangelical Duty, in order to its finding acceptance with God, for we are told, Heb. 11.6. That without faith it is impossible to please God; for, as the bond of union on our part; between Christ and us, is faith, so we are to maintain Communion with him in all his privileges by the continued exercises of it; Heb. 10.38. And the Just shall live by his faith; and to hope to be heard in any other prayer, but such as mounts to heaven on the wings of faith, is vain; that is a caution always to be carried with us, Jam. 1.6. But let him ask in faith.
6. We must ask in Faith. This is a qualification belonging to every Evangelical Duty, in order to its finding acceptance with God, for we are told, Heb. 11.6. That without faith it is impossible to please God; for, as the bond of union on our part; between Christ and us, is faith, so we are to maintain Communion with him in all his priviledges by the continued exercises of it;