Robert Traill (Sermons from 1 Peter 1:1-4), Works 4:59-60:
Believers are discouraged in praying sometimes, from the greatness of the things that they ask. We ask blessings that are vastly great, – pardon of sin, peace with God; we ask no less than the Spirit of God, nothing less than an eternal crown of glory. What is it that makes us so bold, to beg so great blessings as these are? Only because we come in the name of that blood which is a just price for the biggest of them. Though we have not one farthing of our own to give towards the least of them, yet by the virtue of this blood of Jesus we produce, as it were, and lay before the Lord, a price big enough for the greatest of them. This blood of Christ is a sufficient price for all the pardons that are obtained upon earth, and for all the supplies of grace that believers receive now, and for all the crowns of glory that they will be partakers of hereafter; Christ’s blood is worth them all.
Believers are discouraged in praying sometimes, from the greatness of the things that they ask. We ask blessings that are vastly great, – pardon of sin, peace with God; we ask no less than the Spirit of God, nothing less than an eternal crown of glory. What is it that makes us so bold, to beg so great blessings as these are? Only because we come in the name of that blood which is a just price for the biggest of them. Though we have not one farthing of our own to give towards the least of them, yet by the virtue of this blood of Jesus we produce, as it were, and lay before the Lord, a price big enough for the greatest of them. This blood of Christ is a sufficient price for all the pardons that are obtained upon earth, and for all the supplies of grace that believers receive now, and for all the crowns of glory that they will be partakers of hereafter; Christ’s blood is worth them all.
