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. That we may be pleasant and cheerful in our duty.

Lord, enable us to rejoice evermore, to rejoice in the Lord always, because he hath again said unto us, Rejoice; that we may go on our way rejoicing, may eat our bread with joy, and drink our wine with a merry heart, as we shall have reason to do if God now accepteth our works. 1 Thess 5:16. Phil 4:4. Acts 8:39. Eccl 9:7.

Give us grace to serve thee, the Lord our God, with joyfulness and gladness of heart in the abundance of all things ; and to sing in the ways of the Lord, because great is the glory of our God. Deut 28:47. Ps 138:5.

Let us have that cheerfulness of heart which doeth good like a medicine, and deliver us from that heaviness which maketh the heart ei and that sorrow of the world which worketh death. Prov 17:22; Prov 12:25. 2 Cor 7:10.

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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.