6. We must likewise bewail our many actual transgressions, in thought, word, and deed.
We have sinned, Father, against heaven and before thee; we have all sinned, and come short of the glory of God; for the God in whose hand our breath is, and whose are all our ways, have we not glorified. Luke 15:18. Rom 3:23. Dan 5:23.
Against thee, thee only, have we sinned, and have done much evil in thy sight; neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws which he hath set before us; though they are holy, just, and good. Ps 51:4. Dan 9:10. Rom 7:12.
Who can understand his errors? Cleanse thou us from secret faults. Ps 19:12.
In many things we all offend ; and our iniquities are more than the hairs of our head. Jas 3:2. Ps 40:12,
As a fountain casteth out her waters, so do our - hearts cast out wickedness ; and this hath been our manner from our youth up, that we have not obeyed thy voice. Jer 6:7; Jer 22:21.
Out of the evil treasure of our hearts we have brought forth many evil things. Matt 12:35.
Under this head
- We must confess and bewail the workings of pride in us.
- The breaking out of passion and rash anger.
- Our covetousness and love of the world.
- Our sensuality and flesh-pleasing.
- Our security and unmindfulness of the changes we are liable to in this world.
- Our fretfulness and impatience, and murmuring under our afflictions ; our inordinate dejection and distrust of God and his providence.
- Our uncharitableness towards our brethren, and unpeaceableness with our relations, neighbours, and friends, and perhaps injustice towards them.
- Our tongue sins.
- Our spiritual slothfulness and decay.
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Pray now: a guided prayer in six parts, with the next heads each day.
Henry’s text is in the public domain. Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, No. 265 Chestnut Street. Undated, about 1840 to 1860. The preface is dated Chester, March 25, 1710. From the Internet Archive scan. The KJV text is in the public domain.