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

5. The corruption of the whole man; irregular appetites towards those things that are pleasing to sense, and inordinate passions against those things that are displeasing, and an alienation of the mind from the principles, power, and pleasures of the spiritual and divine life.

We are born of the flesh, and we are flesh ; dust we are. We have borne the image of the earthy; and in us, that is, in our flesh, dwells no good thing. For if to will is present to us, yet how to perform that which is good, we find not ; for the good which we would do, we do it not; and the evil which we would not do, that we do. John 3:6. Gen 50:151 Cor 15:49. Rom 7:18, 19.

We have a law in our members warring against the law of our mind, and bringing us into captivity to the law of sin that is in our members, so that when we would do good, evil is present with us. Rom 7:21–23. Heb 12:1.

The whole head is sick, the whole heart is faint, from the sole of the foot, even unto the head, there is no soundness in us, but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores. Isa 1:6.

There is in us a bent to backslide from the living God. Our hearts are deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know them? They start aside like a broken bow. Hos 11:7. Jer 17:9. Hos 7:16.

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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.