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The sound believer. A treatise of evangelical conversion. Discovering the work of Christ's spirit,…
The sound believer. A treatise of evangelical conversion. Discovering the work of Christ's spirit, in reconciling of a sinner to God. / By Thomas Shepard, sometime of Emanuel-College in Cambridge, since preacher of God's word in New-England. ; [One line from Matthew]
Boston: printed by Green for D. Henchman, 1742
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THE Sound Believer. › Chapter 2 › Section 5: Fifthly, Audience of all Prayers.
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That God will hear all the Petitions of his People, can there be a greater Privilege than this? Yet this our Saviour affirms twice together, because it is so great a Promise, that we can hardly believe it, John 14.13, 14. Whatsoever you ask the Father in my Name, that will I do; mark the Scope of the Words, our Saviour had promised, that he that believes in me shall do greater Works than I have done: New because this ⟨p. 229⟩might seem strange and impossible, the Lord in those Verses tells them how, for (saith he) Whatsoever ye ask in my Name, that will I do for you, I will do indeed all that is to be done, but yet, it shall be by Means of your Prayers; Christ did great Works when he was upon the Earth, but for him to do whatever a poor sinful Creature shall desire him to do, what greater Work of Wonder can there be than this? This is our Confidence (saith the Apostle) that whatever we ask according to his Will, he heareth us, 1 John 5.15. The greatest Question here will be, What are those Prayers the Lord Jesus will hear? I confess many Things are excellently spoken this Way, yet I conceive the Meaning of this great Charter is fully expressed in those Words, In my Name. If they be Prayers in Christ's Name, they shall be heard, and it contains these three Things,
That God will hear all the Petitions of his People, can there be a greater Privilege than this? Yet this our Saviour affirms twice together, because it is so great a Promise, that we can hardly believe it, John 14.13, 14. Whatsoever you ask the Father in my Name, that will I do; mark the Scope of the Words, our Saviour had promised, that he that believes in me shall do greater Works than I have done: New because this ⟨p. 229⟩might seem strange and impossible, the Lord in those Verses tells them how, for (saith he) Whatsoever ye ask in my Name, that will I do for you, I will do indeed all that is to be done, but yet, it shall be by Means of your Prayers; Christ did great Works when he was upon the Earth, but for him to do whatever a poor sinful Creature shall desire him to do, what greater Work of Wonder can there be than this? This is our Confidence (saith the Apostle) that whatever we ask according to his Will, he heareth us,