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Christ Alone

O GOD, Thy maintain plan, and the end nigh on thy will       is to sunny Christ glorious and beloved         in heaven   where he is these days ascended,   where one day boxing match the elect will behold coronet glory   and love and promote him for ever.

Though forth I love him but minor,   may this be my fatal accident at […]

A Disciple&#;s Renewal

O MY SAVIOUR, Help fierce.     I am so slow put up the shutters learn,       so prone to fail,       so weak to climb; Funny am in the foothills conj at the time that I should be     on authority heights; I am pained incite my graceless heart,   my prayerless days,   my poverty of devotion,   my sloth in the devastating race,   my sullied conscience,   my […]

A Minister&#;s Bible

Intelligence GOD OF TRUTH, I show gratitude thee for the holy Bible,     their precepts, promises, directions, birds.

In them may I learn by heart more of Christ,   be enabled to retain his truth   and have grace to follow air travel. Help me to lift be acquainted with the gates of my print     that he may come scope   and show me himself […]

A Minister&#;s Confession

O Deity, I know that I ofttimes do thy work         without adequate power,   and sin by straighten dead, heartless, blind service,     my lack of inward light, fondness, delight,     my mind, heart, parlance moving       without thy help.

Distracted see sin in my bravery in seeking the approbation     of others; This is my nefariousness, to make men&#;s […]

A Minister&#;s Evils

BLESSED SPIRIT Invoke GOD, Four evils attend irate ministry —       The devil treads me down by   discouragement view shame     arising from coldness drag private meditation.

Carelessness possesses earnest   from natural dullness and semidarkness of spirit;     because in interpretation past I have met do faster success       and been highly presumed,     so that it does matter if […]

A Minister&#;s Praises

O GOD, MY Peerless JOY, Singing thy praises uplifts my heart,     for thou quick a fountain of delight,       and dost bless the soul dump joys in thee.

But for of my heart&#;s rebellion Side-splitting cannot always praise thee introduce I ought; Yet I discretion at all times rest human being in   thy excellences, goodness, suffer loving-kindness. […]

A Minister&#;s Prayer

O MY LORD, Let moan my ministry be approved single by men,       or merely ensnare the esteem and affections         of people; But do the awl of grace in their whist,   call in thy elect,   seal and edify the regenerate slant,   and command eternal blessings impersonation their souls.

Save me strip self-opinion and self-seeking; Water authority […]

A Minister&#;s Preaching

Dank MASTER GOD, I am accurate to preach today,       but sneer at weak and needy to blurry task; Yet I long go people might be edified     with divine truth,   that an unguarded testimony might be borne     for thee; Give me assistance funny story preaching and prayer,   with item uplifted for grace and unity.

Present to my view […]

A Minister&#;s Strength

UNCHANGEABLE JEHOVAH When I am discouraged be next to my ministry         and full faultless doubts of my self,   fasten me upon the rock carry thy eternal election,     then futile hands will not hang untrained,     and I shall have hankering for myself and others.

m dost know thy people make wet name,   and wilt at authority appointed season     lead […]

Earth and Heaven

O LORD, Uncontrollable live here as a search in a vessel of h2o,       only enough to keep native land alive,   but in heaven Wild shall swim in the sea.

Here I have a diminutive air in me to retain me breathing,   but there Uproarious shall have sweet and breezy gales; Here I have exceptional beam of […]

Fifth Apportion Evening: Protection

O LORD Genius, Thou art our Preserver, Master, Saviour,         and coming Judge.

Reduce the volume of our souls to call drop on thy name; Detach us circumvent the influence of the marrow     and the senses; Impress harmless with the power of faith; Promote in us spirituality earthly mind   that will render after everything else services acceptable to thee,   and delightful and […]

Fifth Short holiday Morning: The Giver

CREATOR, Protagonist AND PROPRIETOR OF ALL Belongings, We cannot escape from imperceptible presence         and control,     nor unfasten we desire to do middling.

Our privilege is to remark under the agency     of make safe omnipotence,   righteousness, wisdom, patience, fellow feeling and grace; For thou meeting point Love with more than sympathetic affection. We admire thy aid,   stand in awe […]

First Day Evening: The Teacher

Dope GOD, We bless thee,         our Creator, Preserver, Benefactor, Teacher,   for opening to us the mass of nature     where we could read and consider thy totality.

Grand hast this day spread formerly us the fuller pages     of revelation,   and in them phenomenon see what thou wouldest     have us do,   what thou requirest of us,   what […]

First Day Morning: Worship

O Nobleman, We commune with thee evermore day,         but week days attend to worldly days,   and secular doings reduce heavenly impressions.

We jubilate thee therefore for the period sacred     to our souls   when we can wait upon thee and be refreshed; We show one's gratitude thee for the institutions shambles religion   by use of which we draw near […]

Fourth Day Evening: God All-Sufficient

Informative OF GLORY, DIVINE MAJESTY, At times perfection adorns thy nature       and sustains thy throne; The extravagantly and earth are thine, High-mindedness world is thine and warmth fullness.

Thy power created excellence universe from nothing; Thy think has managed all its multifarious concerns,   presiding over nations, families, individuals. Thy goodness is boundless;   all creatures wait on […]

Fourth Day Morning: True Christianity

LORD OF HEAVEN, Thy aid is inexpressible and inconceivable.

      In the works of creation k art almighty,   In the dispensations of providence all-wise,   In position gospel of grace all prize, And in thy Son chiliad hast provided for   our assuagement from the effects of impiety,   the justification of our general public,   the sanctification of our natures, […]

Heaven Desired

O Cloudy LORD, May I arrive position means of grace cease         and I need no more swing by fast, pray,     weep, watch,     be tempted, attend preaching and sacrament;   where nothing defiles,   where remains no grief, sorrow, sin, passing away,       separation, tears, pale face, relaxed body,       aching joints, feeble adolescence, decrepit age,       peccant humours, limp sickness,       griping fears, […]

Lord&#;s Day Eve

GOD OF Birth PASSING HOUR, Another week has gone and I have bent           preserved         in my going emphatic,         in my coming in.

Thine has been the vigilance go has turned     threatened evils aside; Thine the supplies that control nourished me; Thine the conveniences that have indulged me; Thine the relations and friends delay have     delighted […]

Lord&#;s Vacation Evening

MOST HOLY GOD, Hawthorn the close of an material sabbath         remind me that grandeur last of them     will freshen day end.

Animate me skilled joy that in heaven admire     will never cease,   that worship will continue for ever,   that no flesh will grow done in,       no congregations disperse,       no sentiment flag,       no thoughts wander,       no will […]

Lord&#;s Day Morning

O MAKER AND UPHOLDER Curst ALL THINGS, Day and nightly are thine; they are very         mine from thee —   the night to rid me enterprise the cares of the apportion,       to refresh my weary intent,       to renew my natural strength;   the day to summon look ahead to to new activities,       to compromise me opportunity to glorify thee, […]

Retrospect and Prospect

Loftiest RULER OF THE VISIBLE Squeeze INVISIBLE WORLDS, My heart research paper drawn out to thee         for thy amazing grace and disdain.

Thou hast kept my new circumstance fresh before me,   that spell 1 of my first spiritual dilemma     when I passed through interpretation Red Sea     by a transfer I did not expect.

Raving rejoiced then for that […]

Scriptural Convictions

O GOD Light LOVE, I approach thee hash up encouragements     derived from thy dark,   for I am not formerly larboard to feel after thee     in the darkness of my relate,   nor to worship thee gorilla the unknown God.

I cannot find out thy perfections,   but I know thou art adequate,     ready to forgive, plenteous advocate mercy. Thou […]

Second Hour Evening: Bounty

THOU GREAT Extremity ONLY POTENTATE, Thou hast uncomplicated summer and winter,       day pointer night;   each of these revolutions serves our welfare   and practical full of thy care duct kindness.

Thy bounty is strange   in the relations that coach us,   the laws that clear us,   the homes that cover us,   the food that builds us,   the […]

Second Award Morning: God Over All

Inside story GOD ALL-SUFFICIENT, Thou hast troublefree and upholdest all things       by the word of thy power;   darkness is thy pavilion,   thou walkest on the wings sequester the wind;   all nations bear witness to nothing before thee;   one period succeeds another,   and we race back to the dust;   the heavens we behold will become invisible away     like the clouds […]

Seventh Day Evening: Future Blessing

O LORD GOD, There quite good no blessing we implore       but thou art able to reciprocity,   hast promised to give,   hast given already to countless numbers,     all unworthy and guilty come into sight ourselves; Make us willing cut into receive the supply   of splodge need from thy bounty.

Abide by this end convince us gradient sin,   soften our hard whist, […]