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.

5. To sanctify our nature, to plant in us all holy principles and dispositions, and to increase every grace in us.

The very God of peace sanctify us wholly; and we pray God, our whole spirit, and soul, and body, may be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ ; for faithful is he that calleth us, who also will do it. 1 Thess 5:23, 24.

Create in us a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within us ; and cast us not away from thy presence, and take not thy Holy Spirit away’ from us; restore unto us the joy of thy salvation, and uphold us with thy free Spirit. Ps 51:10–12.

Write thy law in our hearts, and put it in our inward part, that we may be the epistles of Christ, written by the Spirit of the living God, not in tables of stone, but in fleshly tables of the heart, that the law of our God being in our heart, none of our steps may slide, and we may delight to do thy will, O God; may delight in the law of God after the inward man. Heb 8:10. 2 Cor 3:3. Ps 37:31; Ps 40:8. Rom 7:22.

O that we may obey from the heart that form of doctrine into which we desire to be delivered, as into a mould, that our whole souls may be leavened by it; and that we may not be conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewing of our mind; may not fashion ourselves after our former lusts in our ignorance, but as obedient children, may be holy in all manner of conversation, as he who hath called us is holy. Rom 6:17. Luke 13:21. Rom 12:2. 1 Pet 1:14.

‹ To direct our consciences, to show us the way of our duty,… · We must pray for faith. ›

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.