We must acknowledge the great evil that there is in sin, and in our sin; the malignity of its nature, and its mischievousness to us. — 1.) The sinfulness of sin.

5. The offence which by sin we have given to the holy God.

By breaking the law we have dishonoured God, and have provoked the Holy One of Israel to anger most bitterly. And many a thing that we have done hath displeased the Lord. Rom 2:23. Isa 1:4. Hos 12:14. 2 Sam 11:27.

God has been grieved by our whorish heart, and our eyes that have gone a whoring after idols. Ezek 6:9.

We have tempted him, and proved him, and grieved him in the wilderness; have rebelled and vexed his Holy Spirit, and pressed him with our iniquities, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves. Ps 95:8–10. Isa 63:10. Amos 2:13.

We have grieved the Holy Spirit of God, by whom we are sealed to the day of redemption. Eph 4:30

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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.