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

7. Our uncharitableness towards our brethren, and unpeaceableness with our relations, neighbours, and friends, and perhaps injustice towards them.

We have been verily guilty concerning our brother; for we have not studied the things that make for peace, nor things wherewith we might edify one another. Gen 42:21. Rom 14:19. We have been ready to judge our brother, and to set at nought our brother, forgetting that we must all shortly stand before the judgment-seat of Christ. Rom 14:10.

Contrary to the royal law of charity, we five vaunteth ourselves and been puffed up ; have behaved ourselves unseemly, and sought our own ; have been easily provoked, have rejoiced in iniquity, and been secretly glad at calamities. 1 Cor 13:4, 5. Prov 17:5.

We have been desirous of vainglory, provoking one another, envying one another, when we should have considered one another, to provoke to love, and to good works. Gal 5:26. Heb 10:24.

The bowels of our compassion have been shut up from those that are in need ; and we have hidden ourselves from our own flesh. Nay, perhaps our eye has been evil against our poor brother, and we have despised the poor. 1 John 2:17. Isa 58:7. Deut 15:9. Jas 2:6.

And if in anything we have gone beyond and defrauded our brother; if we have walked with vanity, and our foot hath hasted to deceit, and any blot hath cleaved to our hands, Lord, discover it to us, that if we have done iniquity, we may do so no more. | 1 Thess 4:6. Job 31:5, 7; Job 34:32.

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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.