We must likewise bewail our many actual transgressions, in thought, word, and deed.

6. Our fretfulness and impatience, and murmuring under our afflictions ; our inordinate dejection and distrust of God and his providence.

When thou chastised us, and we were chastised, we have been as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke; and though our own foolishness hath perverted our way, yet our heart hath fretted against the Lord; and thus in our distress we have trespassed yet more against the Lord. Jer 31:18. Prov 19:3. 2 Chr 28:22.

We have either despised the chastening of the Lord, or fainted when we have been rebuked of him ; and if we faint in the day of adversity, our strength is small. Prov 3:11; Prov 24:10

We have said in our haste, We are cast off from before thine eyes; and that the Lord hath forsaken us, our God hath forgotten us, as if God would be favourable no more; as if he had forgotten to be gracious, and had in anger shut up his tender mercies. This has been our infirmity. Ps 31:22. Isa 49:14. Ps 77:7, 8, 10.

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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.