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of Faith requiredgentrally in prayer. 1o5 and cheat full heart, 1. Chron. 2 8.9. which cannot be done in prayer unleffe we be perfwaded that our prayers are accepted of God. 2. There is no acceífe unto God but by Chrift, John 14.6. nor to Chrift but by faith. To come un- to God, Heb.1 i.6. and unto Chrift, is to believe in him, John 6. 35. Through Chrifl we have doldnef Epbef 3,iß and entrance with confidence; but it is by faith in him. 3. What benefit we reap by Chrift we receive by faith : For which caufe the fame benefits which we have by Chrift are afcribed to faith: And there- fore as without Chrifl we can do nothing, John i 5.5. nothing belonging to a fpirituall life which may be acceptable to God : fo without faith we can do no- thing, and much leffe pray as we ought. For with- out faith we are without Chriff,and by faith we are ingraftedinto him. I believed, and therefore I f ake: that is, with faith I called upon God, Pfal. r r 6.10. 4. It is the prayer of faith which is available and acceptable, Jam. 5. 15, 16. 5. The promifes made to prayer are to be under- flood with the condition of faith: Matth. 21.22. If ye believe. Which may be underftoodof this more generall faith, or the fpeciall. This is hard to be performed by a finfull man, Objell o. &c. fin poffible to be performed by a Papift without fpeciall revelation. For he cometh in his own wor- thineífe; yet knoweth not whether he be worthy or not. Jualis erit ifta oratio, O Domine, ego quidem an exaudire me velis dubius fum: fed quia anxietate pre- rnor, ad to confugia; f dignus fum, mih-i ( ccurras. ? What a kind of prayer is this, O Lord, I am doubt- full