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

3. The vanity of our thoughts, their neglect of those things which they ought to be conversant with, and dwelling upon those things that are unworthy of them, and tend to corrupt our minds.

Every imagination of the thoughts of our heart is evil, only evil, and that continually, and has been so from our youth. Gen 6:5; Gen 8:21,

O how long have those vain thoughts lodged within us! those thoughts of foolishness which are sin. From within, out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, which devise mischief upon the bed, and carry the heart with the fool’s eyes into the ends of the earth. Jer 4:14. Prov 24:9. Matt 15:19. Mic 2:1. Prov 17:24.

But God is not in all our thoughts; it is well if he be in any. Of the Rock that begat us, we have been unmindful ; and have forgotten the God that formed us. We have forgotten him days without number, and our hearts have walked after vanity, and become vain. Their inward thought having been, that our houses should continue for ever ; this our way is our folly. Ps 10:4. Deut 32:18. Jer 2:32; Jer 1:5). Ps 49:11)

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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.