ERRORS IN PRAYER. 331 holiness of heart and life, as shall tend to produce obedience to the commands, and submission to the will of God. This is an infallible test, by which you may try every doctrine, every principle of the Gospel. We do not mean the truth of them, for that is immutable ; but your own actual belief, your own actual in- terest in them. If no such effects are visible, we deceive ourselves, and the principles we profess, are not those by which we are governed. Prayer is so obviously designed to humble the proud heart of the natural man, by giving him a feeling sense of his misery, his indigence, and hishelplessness, that we should be unwilling to believe, that even the proudest man can carry his pride to the Throne of Grace, except to supplicate deliverance from it ; yet such a character is actually drawn by Him who knew the thoughts and intents of the heart of man ; and a little consider- ation will teach us, that the "two -men who went up into the temple to pray,"
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