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
Adoration 1.19 | ESVWe must beg for the powerful assistance and influence of the blessed Spirit of grace in our prayers.Lord, I do not know what to pray for as I ought, but let your Spirit help me in my weakness and intercede for me. Romans 8:26(ESV)O pour upon me a spirit of grace and pleas for mer
Adoration 1.18 | ESVWe must entreat God’s favorable acceptance of us and our poor performances.There are many who say, “Who will show us some good?” But this I say, “O LORD, lift up the light of your face upon me, and that shall put joy in my heart, more than they have when their grain and wine abou
Adoration 1.17 | ESVWe must likewise profess our believing hope and confidence in God and his all-sufficiency, in his power, providence, and promise.In you, O LORD, do I take refuge; let me never be put to shame; Psalm 31:1(ESV) indeed, let none who wait for you be put to shame. Psalm 25:3(ESV)For G
Adoration 1.16 | ESVWe must humbly profess the desire of our hearts towards God, as our felicity and portion and fountain of life and all good to us.Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you or in comparison with you. When my flesh and my heart fail, Lord
Adoration 1.15 | ESVWe must express the sense we have of our own meanness and unworthiness to draw near to God and speak to him.But will God indeed dwell with man on the earth? That God whom heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain, 2 Chronicles 6:18(ESV) with man, who is a maggot, and the son o
