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

9. Our spiritual slothfulness and decay.

We have been slothful in the business of religion, and not fervent in spirit, serving the Lord. Rom 12:11.

The things which remain are ready to die, and our works have not been found perfect before God. Rev 3:2.

We have observed the winds, and therefore have not sown; have regarded the clouds, and therefore have not reaped; and with the sluggard have frighted ourselves with the fancy of a lion in the way, a lion in the streets, and have turned on our bed as the door on its hinges; still crying, Yet a little sleep, and a little slumber. Eccl 11:4. Prov 26:13, 14; Prov 6:10.

We have lost our first love ; and where is now the blessedness we sometimes spake of? Rev 2:4. Gal 4:15.

Our goodness hath been as the morning cloud, and the early dew, which soon passeth away. Hos 13:3

And that which is at the bottom of all, is the evil heart of unbelief in us, which inclines us to depart from the living God. Heb 3:12.

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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.