ERRORS IN PRAYER. 329 ation fromhis atonement. All His divine offices are not only in perfect harmony, but in inseparable union.* Or perlAps you have used the name of the Redeemer for follies sake, or as an accustomed close to your petitions, without imploring his efficacious grace in changing your heart, as well as in pardoning your sins. Perhaps you think it a sufficient quali- fication for acceptable prayer, that you are alwaysforming good intentions; now, though these make up the value of good actions, yet good intentions, not acted up- on, when occasion invites and duty calls, will not lessen, but inflame the reckoning. For does it not look as if you had resisted the offer of that Holy Spirit, which had originallyprompted the intention ? And may it not induce him to withdraw his * We observe with regret, that in many public forms of prayer, the aid of his mediation is much more frequently implored, than the benefits of his death and merits. He is, indeed, our Divine Inter- cessor, but his mere intercession is not the whole source of our dependance on him.
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