Confession 2.8 | ESVThe breaking out of passion and rash anger.I have not had the rule which I ought to have had over my own spirit, which has therefore been like a city broken into and left without walls. Proverbs 25:28(ESV)I have been quick in my spirit to become angry, and anger has lodged in my
Confession 2.7 | ESVWe must likewise bewail our many actual transgressions, in thought, word, and deed.I have sinned, Father, against heaven and before you: Luke 15:18(ESV) All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; Romans 3:23(ESV) for the God in whose hand is my breath and whose are all m
Confession 2.6 | ESVWe must lament and confess our omissions of duty, our neglect of it and triflings in it; and that we have done so little since we came into the world of the great work we were sent into the world about, so very little to answer the end of our creation or of our redemption, of our
Confession 2.5 | ESVThe corruption of the whole man: Irregular appetites towards those things that are pleasing to sense, and inordinate passions against those things that are displeasing, and an alienation of the mind from the principles, powers, and pleasures of the spiritual and divine life.I am
Confession 2.4 | ESVThe vanity of our thoughts, their neglect of those things which they ought to be conversant with and dwelling upon those things that are unworthy of them and tend to corrupt our minds.Every intention of the thoughts of my heart is evil, only evil, and that continually, Genesis 6:
Confession 2.3 | ESVWe must lament our present corrupt dispositions to that which is evil, and our aversion to and impotency in that which is good. We must look into our own hearts and confess with holy blushing:The blindness of our understandings and their unaptness to admit the rays of the divine
Confession 2.2 | ESVWe must therefore confess and bewail our original corruption in the first place: that we are the children of apostate and rebellious parents, and the nature of man is depraved and has wretchedly degenerated from its primitive purity and rectitude, and such is our nature.Lord, you
Confession 2.1 | ESVWe must take hold of the great encouragement God has given us to humble ourselves before him with sorrow and shame, and to confess our sins.If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared; Psalm 130:3-4(ES
Confession 2.0 | ESVOf the Second Part of Prayer, which is Confession of Sin, Complaints Regarding Ourselves, and Humble Professions of RepentanceHaving ascribed glory to God, which is his due, Psalm 29:2(ESV) we must next take shame to ourselves, which is our due, and humble ourselves before him in
Adoration 1.20 | ESVWe must profess our entire reliance on the Lord Jesus Christ alone for acceptance with God and come in his name.I do not present my plea before you because of my righteousness, Daniel 9:18(ESV) for I am before you in my guilt, Ezra 9:15(ESV) and cannot stand before you because of
