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

2. The stubbornness of our wills, and their unapthess to submit to the rules of the divine law.

We have within us a carnal mind, which is enmity against God, and is not in subjection to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Rom 8:7.

Thou hast written to us the great things of thy law, but they have been accounted by us a strange thing, and our corrupt hearts have been sometimes ready to say, What is the Almighty that we should serve him? And that we would certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth. For we have walked in the way of our own heart, and in the sight of our eyes, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind.. Hos 8:12. Job 21:15. Jer 44:17. Eccl 11:9.

Our neck hath been an iron sinew, and we have made our hearts as an adamant; we have refused to hearken, have pulled away the shoulder, and stopped our ears like the deaf adder, that will not hearken to the voice of the charmer, charm he never so wisely. Isa 48:4. Zech 7:11, 12. Ps 58:4, 5.

How have we hated instruction, and our heart despised reproof, and have not obeyed the voice of our teachers, nor inclined our ear to them that instructed us. Prov 5:12, 13.

‹ The blindness of our understandings, and their unaptness… · The vanity of our thoughts, their neglect of those things… ›

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.