The Deeps

Plough deep in me, great Lord,
heavenly Husbandman,
that my being may be tilled field,
the roots of grace spreading far and wide,
until thou alone art seen in me,
thy beauty golden like summer harvest,
thy fruitfulness as autumn plenty.

Fullness in Christ

...when faith fills me, then I am full;
that this is the way to be filled with the Spirit,
like Stephen, first faith, the fullness,
for this is way makes me most empty,
and so most fot for the Spirit to fill.

Heart Corruptions

Grant me grace to bear they will without repining,
and delight to be
not only chiseled, squared, or fashioned,
but separated from the old rock where I have
been embedded so long,
and lifted from the quarry to the upper air,
where I may be built in Christ for ever.

Yet I Sin

Grant that through the tears of repentance
I may see more clearly the brightness
and glories of the saving cross.

Christ is all

May I never dally with the world
and its allurements,
but walk by thy side,
listen to thy voice,
be clothed with thy graces,
and adorned with thy righteousness.

Christ the Word

My sin is not so much this or that particular evil,
but my continual separation, disunion,
distance from thee,
and having a loose spirit towardss thee.

The Great Discovery

Grant that I may always weep to the praise of
mercy found,
and tell to others as long as I live,
that thou art a sin-pardoning God,
taking up the balsphemer and the ugodly,
and washing them from their deepest stain.

The Gift of Gifts

Herein is power;
when Deity and humanity were infinitely apart
he united them in indissoluble unity,
the uncreated and the created.

God Honoured

Deliver me from the natural darkness of
my own mind,
from the corruptions of my heart,
from the temptations to which I am exposed,
from the daily snares that attend me.

A Christian's Prayer

BLESSED GOD,

Ten thousand snares are mine without
and within,
defend me;
When sloth and indolence seize me,
give me views of heaven;
When sinners entice me,
give me disrelish of their ways;
When sensual pleasures tempt me,
purify and refine me;
When I desire worldly possessions,
help me to be rich toward thee;
When the vanities of the world ensnare me,
let me not plunge into new guilt and ruin.

Man's Greatest End

...all our happiness consists in loving thee,
and being holy as thou art holy.

A Present Salvation

Help me to be reality before thee
As I am in appearance before men

God enjoyed

While Jesus is representing me in heaven,
May I reflect Him on earth.