We must pray for the grace of God, and all the kind and powerful influences and operations of that grace.

2. We must pray for grace to furnish us for every good thought, word, and work, that we may not only be kept from sin, but may be in every thing as we should be, and do as we should do.

Let Christ be made of God to us, not only righteousness, but wisdom, sanctification, and redemption. 1 Cor 1:30.

Let us be planted together in the likeness of Christ’s death and resurrection, that as he was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, so we also may walk in newness of life. Rom 6:4.

Under this head

• That the work of grace may be wrought there where it is not yet begun.
• That where it is begun, it may be carried on, and at length perfected, and the foundation that is well laid may be happily built. upon.
• To teach and instruct us, and make us ‘knowing and intelligent in the things of God. Give us so to cry after knowledge, and to lift up our voice for understanding, to seek for it as silver, and to search for it as for hid treasure, that we may understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God. .
• To lead us into, and keep us in the way of truth; and if in any thing we be in an error, to rectify our mistake.
• To help our memories, that the truths of God may be ready to us, whenever we have occasion to use them.
• To direct our consciences, to show us the way of our duty, and to make us wise, knowing, judicious Christians.
• To sanctify our nature, to plant in us all holy principles and dispositions, and to increase every grace in us.
• We must pray for faith.
• We must pray for the fear of God.
• We must pray that the love of God and Christ may be rooted in us, and in order thereunto, that the love of the world may be rooted out of us.
• We must pray that our conscience may be always tender, and that we may live a life of repentance.
• We must pray to God to work in us charity and brotherly love.
• We must pray for the grace of self-denial.
• We must pray for humility and meekness.
• We must pray for the grace of contentment and patience, and a holy indifference to all the things of sense and time.
• We must pray for the grace of hope ; a hope in God and Christ, and a hope of eternal life.
• We must pray for grace to preserve us from sin, and all appearances of it, and approaches towards it.
• We must pray for grace to enable us both to govern our tongues well, and to use them well.
• We must pray for grace to direct and quicken us to, and to strengthen and assist us in, our duty, in the whole course of our conversation.
• That we may be prudent and discreet in our duty.
• That we may be honest and sincere in our duty.
• That we may be active and diligent in our duty.
• That we may be resolute and courageous, in our duty, as those that know that though we may be losers for Christ, we shall not be losers by him in the end.
• That we may be pleasant and cheerful in our duty.
• That we may do the duty of every condition of life, every event of providence, and every relation wherein we stand.
• That we may be universally conscientious.

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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.