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

1. 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. Prov 2:3–5.

Give us all to know thee, from the least even to the greatest, and to follow on to know thee; and so to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent, as may be life eternal to us. Heb 8:11. Hos 6:3. John 17:3.

Give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ, that the eyes of our understanding being enlightened, we may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, and may experience what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe according to the working of his mighty power. Eph 1:17–19.

Open thou our eyes, that we may see the wondrous things of thy law and gospel. Ps 119:18.

Give us to know the certainty of those things wherein we have been instructed; and let our knowledge grow up to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, even of the Father and of Christ. Luke 1:4.

Deal with thy servants according to thy mercy, and teach us thy statutes; we are thy servants; give us understanding that we may know thy testimonies. Let our cry come before thee, O Lord; give us understanding, according to thy ‘word, that good understanding which they have that do thy commandments, whose praise endureth for ever. Ps 119:169

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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.