Father. And yet we must not enjoin him to abstain from praying, or to address God by any other name than Father. All believers unquestionably should strive to obtain, in a high degree, the assurance of faith. But when the struggling faith is really, or even eminently, defective, their exercises are not treated with scorn by the hearer of prayer. Let them call God Father with respect to the great benefits which he has bestowed on us, which they must know and cannot deny. Let them call him Father,