We must lament our present corrupt dispositions to that which is evil, and our indisposedness to, and impotency in, that which is good. We must look into our own hearts, and confess with holy blushing

1. The blindness of our understandings, and their unaptness to admit the rays of the divine light.

By nature our understandings are darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in us, because of the blindness of our hearts. Eph 4:18.

The things of the Spirit of God are foolishness to the natural man, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Cor 2:14.

We are wise to do evil, but to do good we have no knowledge. We know not, neither do we understand ; we walk on in darkness. God speaketh once, yea, twice, but we perceive it not; but hearing, we hear, and do not understand, and we see men as trees walking. Jer 4:22. Ps 82:5. Job 33:14. Matt 13:14. Mark 8:24,

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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.