Dr. aeomb's Prayer. but they are feared. And asrour inward man, fo our lives are unholy; as the Fountairz is, fo is the Stream ; befides that our general guilt that we brought into the world, we areguilty of innumerable of a6fital tranf- grefflons againif thy holy L. .c./4 We think& Lord there are not greater !inners in the world than weer fins are attended withmany aegeavations We have finned againft prayers, ag,ainii vows andproinifes ; we have had as much light fkiningbefere us, as a, y in the world have had: great is our unbelief. Oh that we could lay theie things to our hearts i We do refilte to come to Chri i, we go about to efablifh a righteoufnefs of our own, and negleEt the righteournefs of God by faith in lefus Chrift, how are our heartsglexed to theprefent things of this world ! oh what do we dofor thyglory ! how unreformedare we under all the ways of God, that he has taken to make us a holy people ! give us a fight of our fins 0 Lord ; we confefs, fotnetitnes we do make force formal cenfegion, but we do not find our heartsmelted forfin as they Should. Oh take away from every one ofus this heart of(tone, andgive a heart of fie.) ; give us tender hearts, inalie us fenflble of all our departing from thee. Oh let us lookupon himwhom wehave pierced,, and let us mourn, that the water of penitentialforrow may flow from us ; we are ftrangers to our Selves ; we do not fee what a Hell there is in our nature ; oh how Should we put our mouths in the daft, and loath our felves, if ro be their might be hope ! Oh Lord, convince us of fin, give usfuch a fight of fin as may makke is fly to thee: give us Inch a fight of our own guilt that mayprepare us for the grace of God ; now we are dung with thefiery ferpent, help us to come to Jefus Chrii our brazen ferpent; give us the holyfpirit, tobring us out of theflate of nature ; oh let that God that made us creatures, make us new creatures ; oh Lord we are thine own work, but we are dead in trefpafjes andfins ; give us grace, andfpeak a word to them that are dead ; put out thine almighty power and draw force finner to Chriii this day ; and thole that have any breathings after thee, oh thou that 'gaveft them that defire, carry on thine own work in them ; where thou half begun a' good worm, carry it en, let fin as the houfe of Saul grow weaker and weaker, andgrace as the houfe of David grow fironger and fironger. Oh increafe our faith ; oh Lord, in this time we do not only Handin needofgrace, but of a great meafure of grace ; oh help us by faith to rely upon God that thou maye,i help us at IA. Blefs with us all thine, remember thypeoplefrom one end ofthe world unto the other, thy people-are very low, this is a tune of Jacobs troubles, the bu(h is burning every'day; oh thou the hope of grad and the Saviour thereof, filep, thy (elf in mercy to thefe Nations. We blefstheefor all thy mercies, that .thy judge-
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