CONSOLATIONS OF PRAYER. 435 the pardon. 44 Repent that your sins may be blotted out. Itwould therefore supply ample matter for habitual prayer, had we only the sins of our nature to lament ; but when to these we add our practical offences, oh, howgreat is the sum of them! Yet though they are more than we can express, they are not greater than God can forgive; not more than the blood which was shed for them can wash out. But he to whom the duty of prayer is unknown, and by whom the privilege of prayer is unfelt, or he by whom it is neglected, or he who uses it for form and not from feeling, may probably say, Will this work, wearisome even if necessary, never know an end ? Will there be no period when God will dispense with its regular exercise ? Will there never be such an attainment of the end proposed, as that we may be allowed to discontinue the means ? To these interrogatories there is but u
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