M.  Dost thou then say that we must use prayer and supplication, like as all other duties of godliness, according to the prescription of God’s word, or else we cannot please God?

      S.  Yea, verily; ^ffor all offence in religion is committed by changing the order and manner appointed by God.

      M.  Hitherto then thou hast said that God alone is to be called upon, putting all our trust in him, and that to him all things, as to the spring-head of all good things, are to be imputed; now followeth next to declare with what confidence we wretched mortal men, that are so many ways unworthy, ought to call upon the immortal God.

      S.  We are indeed every way most unworthy.  But we thrust not ourselves in, proudly and arrogantly, as if we were worthy, but we come to him in the name, and upon the trust of ^gChrist our Mediator, by whom the door being opened to us, though we be most base silly wretches, made of clay and slime, oppressed with conscience of our own sins, we shall not be forbidden to enter, nor shall have hard access to the majesty of God, and to the obtaining of his favour.

      M.  We need not then, for access to God, some man to be our mean or interpreter, to commend and declare our suit unto him, as it were unto some worldly prince.

      S.  Nothing less; unless we will think that God is ^has men be, bound to one place; that he cannot understand many things but by his servants; that he sometime sleepeth, or hath not leisure to hear.  For, as touching our unworthiness, we have already said, that our prayers stand in confidence, not upon anything in us, but upon the only worthiness of ⁱChrist, in whose name we pray.

      M.  Dost thou then think that God the Father is to be called upon in the name, and upon trust of Christ alone?

      S.  Yea, forsooth, master; for he alone, above all other, most singularly ^kloveth us, so far that he will do all things for our sakes: he alone is with God his Father, at whose right hand he sitteth, ^lin most high favour, that he may obtain what he will of him: he therefore alone is the Mediator of God and men, the man Jesus Christ; he alone, I say, is the Mediator of redemption, and also of invocation, in whose ^mname alone the holy scriptures do expressly bid us to go unto God the Father, adding also promises that he by his intercession will bring to pass that we shall obtain all that we pray for: otherwise ⁿwithout Christ the ear and heart of God abhorreth men.