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.

3. 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.

Give us grace, we beseech thee, to love thee, the Lord our God, with all our heart and soul, and mind and might, which is the first and great commandment; to set our love upon thee, and to delight ourselves always in thee; and therein we shall have the desire of our hearts. Matt 22:37. Ps 91:14; Ps 37:4.

Circumcise our hearts to love the Lord our God with all our heart, and with all our soul, that we may live. Deut 30:6.

O that the love of God may be shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost. Rom 5:5.

O that Jesus Christ may be very precious to us, as he is to all that believe, that he may be in our account the chiefest of ten thousands, and altogether lovely ; and that he may be our beloved and our friend; that though we have not seen him yet we may love him; and though we now see him not, yet believing we may rejoice with joy unspeakable, and full of glory. 1 Pet 1:7. Song 5:10, 16. 1 Pet 1:8.

Let the love of Christ to us, constrain us to live, not to ourselves, but to him that died for us, and rose again. And, Lord, grant.that we may not love the world, nor the things that are in the world, because if any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him; that we may set our affections on things above, and not on things that are on the earth. 2 Cor 5:14. 1 John 2:15.

‹ We must pray for the fear of God. · We must pray that our conscience may be always tender, and… ›

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.