Love

My salvation is the point where
perfect created love
and the most perfect uncreated love
meet together;
for thou dost welcome me,
not like Joseph and his bothers,
loving and sorrowing, but loving and rejoicing.

Mercy

Thous hast not left me to despair,
for there is no 'peradventure' in thy grace.

A Cry for Deliverance

I abhor my body of death,
its indolence, envy, meanness, pride,
Forgive, and kill this vices,
have mercy on my unbelief,
on my corrupt and wandering heart.

Man a Nothing

I fault and correct thy laws to suit myself,
Instead of thee I look to man's approbation,
and I am by nature and idolater.
Lord, it is my chief design to bring my heart back
to thee.

Take away my roving eye, curious ear, greedy
appetite, lustful heart;
show me that none of these things
can heal a wounded conscience,
or support a tottering frame,
or uphold a departing spirit,
then take me to the cross
and leave me there.

Penitence

My soul is often a chariot without wheels,
clogged and hindered in sin's miry clay;
Mount it on eagle's wings
and cause it to soar upward to thyself.

Passion

My sin is that my heart is pleased or troubled
as things please or trouble me,
without having a regard to Christ;
Thus, I am like Eli,
the subject of punishment for not rebuking sin;
whereas I should humbly confess my sin
and fly to the blood of Christ for pardon
and peace.

Backsliding

Give me to believe
that thou canst do more for me than
I ask or think,
and that, though I backslide, thy love will never
let me go,
but will draw me back to thee with everlasting
cords;
that thou dost provide grace in the wilderness,
and canst bring me out, leaning on the arm
of my Beloved;
that thou canst cause me to walk with him
by the rivers of water in a straight way,
wherein I shall not stumble.

I would advise reading the entire reading; entitled "Backsliding" in the section "Penitence and Deprecation."

Shortcomings

Help me to see that although I am in the wilderness
it is not all briars and barrenness.
I have bread from heaven, streams from the rock,
light by day, fire by night,
thy dwelling place and thy mercy seat.

The Broken Heart

Though unrighteousness weighs me down to hell,
thy righteousness exalts me to thy throne.

Reproofs

Teach me how to take reproofs from friends,
even though I do not think I deserve them;
Use them to make me tenderly afraid of sin...

Meeting God

I bless thee that grate sin draws out great grace,
that, although the least sin
deserves infinite punishment
because done against an infinite God,
yet there is mercy for me,
for where guilt is most terrible,
there thy mercy in Christ is most free and deep.