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.

10. We must pray for grace to preserve us from sin, and all appearances of it, and approaches towards it.

Now we pray to God that we may do no evil, but may be blameless and harmless, as the children of God, without rebuke in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation. 2 Cor 13:7. Phil 2:15.

Turn away our eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou us in thy way. Remove from us the way of lying, and grant us thy law graciously. Ps 119:37, 29.

India not our hearts to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with them that work iniquity, and let us not eat of their dainties. Ps 141:4

O cleanse us from secret faults; keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over us, but let us be upright, and innocent from the great transgression; and grant that hereby we may prove ourselves upright before thee, by keeping ourselves from our own iniquity. Ps 19:12, 13; Ps 18:23.

Let thy word be hid in our hearts, that we may not sin against thee, and thy grace be at all times sufficient for us, ready to us, and mighty in us, and never give us up to our own heart’s lust, to walk in our own counsels. Ps 119:11. 2 Cor 12:9. Ps 81:12;

Enable us to walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise; so circumspectly, that we may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion to blaspheme that worthy name by which we are called, and with well-doing may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men, and may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things. Eph 5:15. 2 Cor 11:12. Jamesii. 7. 1 Pet 2:15. Titus 2:10.

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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.